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Derrick Martin of the Giants last year with his daughters in the confetti after Super Bowl XLVI. Super Bowl ticket packages this year are offering perks like the chance to take photos on the field after the game is over.

(Chris Faytok/The Star-Ledger)

Want the red-carpet treatment at Super Bowl XLVIII?

VIP tickets are only the beginning.

February's big game at MetLife Stadium may be New Jersey's turn at NFL glory, but how about accommodations that bypass New Jersey entirely for glossy, Empire State chic?

Cue Gerswhin's "Rhapsody in Blue," because when you're all tuckered out for the night, you can rest your head in the 52-story Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Opting for a big-ticket game package means you don't have to remember where you parked when the game lets out because you can forget about parking completely.

Instead, your chariot awaits: a black-car ride to the game.

You also don't need to mooch off a tailgate grill next to someone's car because you'll have access to the official Super Bowl pregame party at the Meadowlands. That's if you're not too tired from kicking up your heels the night before at the star-studded Maxim bash.

All this can be yours — for a mere $18,989 per person — if you buy something called an "ultra luxury experience" at Super Bowl XLVIII.

If you pay the price of a Honda Civic, you can get premium seats to the Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium in February, accommodations at a New York hotel and access to VIP pregame attractions. For one person.

That kind of money could put a shiny new Honda Civic in your driveway with plenty of dough to spare for gas. But for that price — what some pay annually in rent or mortgage payments — big-pocketed fans are embracing "go big or go home" as their mantra.

"The response from customers has been pretty incredible," said Tom Ellingson, CEO of Las Vegas-based Fandeavor, the company selling this particular Super Bowl "experience."

What else can $19,000 buy?

And that's not all. Package add-ons include everything from a tour of the press box, the chance to mingle with coaches and players or have lunch with an NFL legend.

"We can make all those kind of special appearances happen," says Brian Learst, CEO of QuintEvents, a Charlotte, N.C. company that's an official seller of NFL On Location packages. Seven types of tickets-and-amenities experiences the company offers are already sold out, including one priced at $11,799 per person. For that price, you get 100- or 200-level club seating and three nights at the Hilton Times Square, Hilton Midtown New York or W New York at Union Square.

By the way, the pricetag doesn't include airfare.

The purchaser of one of the QuintEvents packages can head out onto the field atop a fresh sprinkling of victory confetti to take photos after the game. Plus, their thousands of dollars secure another coveted item — preferred parking at MetLife Stadium — as well as a three-hour pregame party with a top-shelf open bar and appearances from players and cheerleaders.

Bruno Mars, this year's Super Bowl halftime act, performs at the Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel. One top-dollar game package will get you a room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York.

The party is inside the bounds of stadium security, said Learst, preventing the ultimate party debacle: Being late for the game because you're standing in line to get cleared by security after your tailgate bash. Surely a nightmare situation, he said.

"You spend $5,000 to $10,000 for a game and you miss half of it."

At Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis last year, QuintEvents treated its clients to a pregame ice skating party at Lucas Oil Stadium, glossed up by appearances from professional skaters and the fluttering of fake snow for its "winter wonderland" theme.

Even if this year's outdoor Super Bowl makes faux frost seem like some cruel joke, package purveyors say guests will often want to warm up at football's biggest, most expensive affairs.

Among the fetes are the red carpeted ESPN, Maxim, Playboy and Leather & Laces parties as well as Taste of the NFL's Party with a Purpose, the Super Bowl's annual feast for gourmands, set at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.

List price of just getting into one of the parties can start at $1,500 — but that all depends on the lineup, Learst said.

"Beyonce's a lot more expensive than Kool & the Gang," he said.

Kevin Adaline is senior account executive for VIP Sports Marketing, a company that sells packages to corporate clients. He estimates Super Bowl XLVIII game tickets will go from $3,750 to $12,000 each. With a four-night minimum at most hotels, packages balloon to at least $7,750 per person, he said.

"That's the nature of the beast," he said.

But, he says, the likelihood of frigid air for the Feb. 2 game is putting a slight damper on the hype.

"I wouldn't say we're blowing it out of the park because of the weather concerns," he said.

Adam Dailey knows there's probably "better places to go in February" than East Rutherford — given the potential for winter's wrath to blow full force — but said the game packages his company is offering are selling well.

"2014 has been a lot bigger for us than previous years," said Dailey, chief strategy officer for Ludus Tours in Austin, Texas. "The fact that is was in New York-New Jersey in the new stadium, I think, got a lot of buzz."

Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner at the Leather & Laces Super Bowl party in 2010, in Miami Beach Fla. Many ticket package purveyors will arrange for clients to get into exclusive parties on game weekend.

Ludus' top-tier package costs $9,033 per person. The company's four-night "super fan travel package" guarantees a 200-level stadium seat or better, access to a tailgate party and New York attractions, at a discount. Rooms are booked at city locations such as Westin New York at Times Square and Waldorf Towers — but also East Rutherford's Hilton Meadowlands, Dailey said.

"For the most part, the biggest bump we'll get is when we figure out which teams," will play, he said.

And speaking of teams, one Super Bowl get that might not empty your wallet is buying the opportunity to purchase a game ticket — but only for your favorite.

"They're really simply buying an insurance policy," said Rick Harmon, CEO of Chicago-based Forward Market Media which operates the NYC Reserves program. "They don't want to go into the StubHubs of the world."

Despite the up-front payment, there's no guarantee of a game ticket. Buyers select a team. If that team makes it to the Super Bowl, the fan can buy a ticket. The more likely the team is to make it to the big game, the higher price you pay just for the chance to purchase a ticket — not for the ticket itself.

For example: The going price for the right to buy a face-value, upper level end zone ticket to see the Giants at the 2014 Super Bowl?

Quite a bargain — $20.

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