Seeing UFC 100 Live, It's Not Too Late
by Nate Wilcox on Jul 1, 2009 5:09 PM EDT
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Maggie Hendricks has a very useful post up:
Tickets: Getting into the sold-out fights will cost you quite a bit more. Tickets start at $497, and can cost you as much as ... wait for it ... are you sitting down ... $40,000 per ticket. That's right, you can either buy yourself a new Honda, or you can have a cageside ticket for UFC 100. There is plenty of in-between ground there, like seats in the lower bowl for around $1000. A grand per ticket is hardly cheap, but it's still a seat in the fights that will not give you a nosebleed.
Hotel: The bad economy has affected tourism in Las Vegas, which means you can stay there for relatively cheap rates. Hotels.com has rooms for as cheap as $25 a night, you can stay on the strip at the Tropicana for $80 a night, or in the Luxor, which is attached to Mandalay Bay, for $140. Actually staying at Mandalay Bay will cost you quite a bit more, as in $286 a night. (Note, if you book with Hotels.com, they charge your credit card ahead of time, so don't book until you know you're going.)
Getting there: This close to the event, airfares are getting pretty high. According to Orbitz, from my own hometown of Chicago, it would cost between $500 -- $600, between $550 -- $700 from Boston, $450 -- $600 from Dallas, and $170 -- $350 from Los Angeles. You can also save quite a bit on your flight if you combine it with your hotel on a Web site like Travelocity or Orbitz.
She's got more info on the UFC Fan Expo, partying in Vegas, restaurants and stuff like that. Read the whole thing.
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Yes. I am going.
My wife and I are driving out there on Thursday.
by SanDiegoMMA.net on Jul 1, 2009 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions
You are into a optioned out 3 series for 40g.
But seriously—- priceline is where its at. I was shopping for packages a few months ago for Honolulu, and the exact same package with the same hotel and time was 1000 bucks over at orbitz and travelocity. It was $350 at priceline. I cross shopped a fair amount and priceline was always hugely better. So it’s worth at least plugging in to see what you get.
Or you could just contact your local travel agent and not worry about figuring that stuff out. Scalped tickets are on you though. By the way, travel agents get the same prices as the online places and will make sure you don’t get ripped off.
Travel agents have to live too.
So you can bet they take a cut.
Then again, we are a pretty lazy society..
Creator of the FightMatrix rating system.
Case of beer and my buddy’s couch for the win!
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Jul 1, 2009 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions
It is, face value on floor and some lower level was $1,000, highest that I know of before that was $700 or $800 and I don’t know of any other event where there were upper level seats with a face value of $300.
Due to Cheick Kongo's atrocious takedown defense....
Walla walla walla, I’m an idiot
Some people might say that winning a fight makes you a better fighter but I don’t agree with that.- BlueberryMuffin
I’m creating a charity fund to send me to UFC 100. If anyone asks I am suffering from hysterical pregnancies.
Keep firing Assholes!
Out out, you demons of stupidity!
Will an answer in the affirmative get me to Vegas?
Keep firing Assholes!
Out out, you demons of stupidity!
My mother
does have a sweet pad there. Pool, hot tube, mondo grill with built in keg. But if you answer yes, I am sending her and the kids over >:)
Hey everyone
Steve Cantwell is about to dislocate al-Hassan’s elbow.
by Derek Suboticki on Jul 1, 2009 10:13 PM EDT reply actions
I still yell ‘Tap! TAP!!!!’ every time I see it.
by Derek Suboticki on Jul 2, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
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