LYNN – The Patriots are headed for the Super Bowl and if you want to follow them west, it’s time to go online or call a travel agent.A check with a half-dozen local agents Monday found travel packages to the Feb. 3 game in Arizona ranging from $4,000 to $7,000 with prices for Super Bowl tickets, air fare and hotels varying in price and quality of seat or lodging.Veteran agents like Dan Pranka and Joel Abramson said the legions of Patriots fans following their team into history and crowds of well-heeled New Yorkers preparing to cheer on the Giants have set the bar high for ticket prices.”In the past five years, prices opened up at $1,700 but this year they opened at $2,500,” Pranka said.Business is brisk for Pranka’s Saugus-based New England Sport Tours and Abramson’s Flagship Travel in Marblehead. Pranka had already sold 50 of his Super Bowl packages by Monday and Abramson “sold a ton” before last Sunday.”A lot of Pats fans rolled the dice and bought packages two or three weeks ago,” he said.That decision by Patriots die-hards reflects their faith in the team’s invincibility and the business side of the Super Bowl.National Football League teams, sponsors and licensees commit 85 percent of the available tickets to the big game well before the conference championship games are played.A share of the tickets make their way into the hands of travel wholesalers and other distributors who sell them as part of online travel packages or to agents and individuals.Colony Travel representative Josephine Vitello booked Super Bowl packages for several customers last Friday and gave them the option to cancel their trips if the Chargers beat the Patriots.”It was an arrangement we made with regular customers,” she said, adding that motels normally charging $150 a night for a room in the Glendale are asking $400 to $500 a night with a four-night minimum.Wholesalers offered $2,600 per person Super Bowl packages to Joanna Pena Monday, but the Union Travel ‘N Tours owner does not expect her mostly Dominican customers to buy the packages.Like Jill Garfinkle of Swampscott, Pena runs a small travel agency that caters to customers with specific travel destinations and interests.These little agencies are already feeling the pinch of having travelers book flights directly online instead of calling an agent and Garfinkle anticipates many Pats fans will search the Internet for Super Bowl deals.Abramson urged anyone seeking an online bargain to be wary of scams. They should check the reputability of out-of-town travel or ticket agents by calling the police department in the community where the agency is located and asking how long the business has been there.”Make sure the agency has around 25 years or so and get all information in writing,” he said.Pena urged anyone who absolutely, positively must witness Super Bowl XLII in person to get a game ticket then worry about travel and accommodations.”The important thing is to see the game, not where you sleep.”