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More Beds for Super Fans

Thousands of additional hotel rooms are available for this year's Super Bowl compared to the last one in Tampa eight years ago.

By Carl Cronan | Updated on January 23, 2009

(Carl Cronan is editor of Real Estate Florida.)

TAMPA, FL-With more people expected to come to town for Super Bowl XLIII than there are actual seats in Raymond James Stadium, the city’s hotel capacity should be maxed out by the weekend of the game. The good news, though, is that there are better chances of getting a room this year than the last time the National Football League staged its championship here eight years ago.

Approximately 21,000 hotel rooms are currently counted in Tampa and Hillsborough County by Henderson, TN-based Smith Travel Research, up by more than 2,300 or 13% since Super Bowl XXXV was played in January 2001, with roughly 900 rooms unlocking in the past year alone. One major full-service hotel opened within 10 days of this year’s Feb. 1 kickoff–the 255-room Westin Tampa Bay Airport, in the Rocky Point waterfront district.

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