How UVA fans can do a fun basketball-football doubleheader in Charlotte

UVA Football gave us a great excuse, in the form of the ACC Championship Game, to head down to Charlotte this weekend.

The UVA Basketball team was already scheduled to be in the Queen City on Saturday, for a neutral-site game with Dayton.

That one is at noon; the football game is a mile and a half away from the Spectrum Center at Bank of America Stadium at 8 p.m.

The temptation is there to make a day of it.

How much would that set you back? is the question.

Here we go

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Gas: I’d estimate $75 if you’re driving from Central Virginia, to get there and back.

Hotel: I mean, if you’re hearty, it’s a four-and-a-half-hour drive, give or take, from the Charlottesville area, so you could leave early and get back way, way late.

I’m not hearty, not even close, so I’m heading down on Friday and coming back on Sunday.

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Hotels

• Google is your friend

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And I’m staying downtown, which they call Uptown in Charlotte, which is pretty pricey.

I’m seeing some locations in Uptown Charlotte, which I’m sure are going fast, as low as $150 per night.

You can also stay just outside of town for as low as seventy bucks a night.

You’d need to factor in paying for parking – I’m seeing parking passes for each of the games starting at twenty bucks.

Tickets: I’m seeing tickets for the hoops game in the low fifties, and the football game in the high fifties.

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Tickets

• Basketball: SeatGeek, StubHub, VividSeats
• Football: SeatGeek, StubHub, VividSeats

Note: I don’t get a penny if you use any of these sites to buy a ticket, so, whatever, I don’t care.

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So, let’s say you’re heading down with the significant other or your buddy, two people, two nights in a hotel, tickets, food and gas, coming to …

Lower end, six hundred bucks.

Which isn’t nothing, but it’s not the six to eight thousand bucks UVA Athletics thinks folks will be able to put aside to fly to Brazil for the football season opener next summer.