Super Bowl 2013: It's Not Too Late To Travel to New Orleans for the Big Game

Lack of local interest and high booking fees from Baltimore and San Francisco into New Orleans (A recent search on Kayak.com shows the cheapest fare from San Francisco to New Orleans, leaving Thursday Jan. 31 and returning Monday Feb. 4-around $1,580, round-trip, according to USA Today.) are some of the reasons being tossed around to explain the rapid price drop of tickets into "The Biggest Game in America."

Three-days before Super Bowl 2013, being held in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, in New Orleans, the NFL's official ticket reseller, Ticketmaster, shows the price of the tickets are "hovering around $1,4000-about $1,000 cheaper than it was at this time last year. Some ticketing insiders are even predicting that many tickets will go for face value of $850 to $1,250," according to ESPN.com.

Feeling lucky, but need a place to stay?

That isn't a problem either, "On the hotel front, Jim Zissler of Inside Sports & Entertainment Group told CNTraveler.com he was seeing rooms open up at the team's hotels (the New Orleans Marriott for the 49ers, the Hilton Riverside for the Ravens) as well as at other spots around the city."

"The NFL blocks off about 90% of the hotel rooms of any quality in the host city to fulfill needs for teams, staff, media, and sponsors," Zissler told CNTraveler.com. "And then this week, those companies might realize they only need 93 rooms instead of a hundred, so a few pop open in ones and twos."

When searching kayak again on Wednesday afternoon, "it showed 205 hotels with availability from Thursday to Monday within a few miles of the Superdome, and 93 within a mile. For travelers looking to stay closer to the city center (Bourbon Street), there are still 204 hotels within five miles and 108 within a mile," according to USA Today.

"That's a sharp turnaround from results done only last Friday when the hotel search site trivago.com reported" that New Orleans rooms were sold out. As of Wednesday afternoon, the site showed nine available hotels from Thursday through Sunday night, with rates as low as $600 per night for the Holiday Inn French Quarter," according to USA Today.