Any tips, suggestions, advice!?!?!
We are leaving from north NJ, basically the border of NY state. On Google maps its about 1109 miles- sigh! We are use to driving. We have done it numerous time to Hilton Head which is about 13 hours- this should be 19-20 depending what route we take.We have two smallish kids 6 and 3! But have drove to Hilton Head since they were 1. They are much easier to entertain now with movies, games, toys and pure craziness that comes 10 hours in the trip!
I am trying to get a game plan to price it right and compare it to flying. Right now airline tickets are just under $400/pp. We have 4 going. So its looking like around $1600 to fly. And that does not include checked bags!
Ok so we are borrowing my moms Camry because we have a navigator that eats gas! We shall see what gas prices are like come then and can only hope they go down :veryconfu
But I am going with price of gas now. So it should be between 6-7 fill ups round trip including gas to the grocery store in Disney. I am rounding up and that should be about $400. We found some hotels around $70-75 a night. x2= $150. We will pack breakfast and lunch for the car trip there. Stop for dinner =$60. Free breakfast at the hotel and we are in Disney for lunch the next day! On the way home we would have had breakfast at Disney. Now we need lunch and dinner-$120. And be home for lunch the next day. So rounding up again we are at about $750. Even if you tag on an extra $50 for some coffee or a random snack (believe me I am an expert packer for snacks for us and the kids) we are at about half of the cost to fly.
If for some reason the tickets drop dramatically before we go I think driving is worth it. More $$ to spend at the parks, eating, souvenirs etc....
Sound about right or am I missing something?? And any route tips would be greatly appreciated. I heard that ppl in my area usually make it to around Savannah or ???? something with a B in georgia and stay there?
We plan to come down 1-95 as we do to SC but plan to leave a tad later in the am. We usually leave between 3-4am and have not had issues with DC traffic. But we are always so tired. No time to be tired in Disney. So dh thinks we should leave like 6am. Just worried about the traffic. Leaving on a Sat!
Thx!! :kiss:
We are leaving from north NJ, basically the border of NY state. On Google maps its about 1109 miles- sigh! We are use to driving. We have done it numerous time to Hilton Head which is about 13 hours- this should be 19-20 depending what route we take.We have two smallish kids 6 and 3! But have drove to Hilton Head since they were 1. They are much easier to entertain now with movies, games, toys and pure craziness that comes 10 hours in the trip!
I am trying to get a game plan to price it right and compare it to flying. Right now airline tickets are just under $400/pp. We have 4 going. So its looking like around $1600 to fly. And that does not include checked bags!
Ok so we are borrowing my moms Camry because we have a navigator that eats gas! We shall see what gas prices are like come then and can only hope they go down :veryconfu
But I am going with price of gas now. So it should be between 6-7 fill ups round trip including gas to the grocery store in Disney. I am rounding up and that should be about $400. We found some hotels around $70-75 a night. x2= $150. We will pack breakfast and lunch for the car trip there. Stop for dinner =$60. Free breakfast at the hotel and we are in Disney for lunch the next day! On the way home we would have had breakfast at Disney. Now we need lunch and dinner-$120. And be home for lunch the next day. So rounding up again we are at about $750. Even if you tag on an extra $50 for some coffee or a random snack (believe me I am an expert packer for snacks for us and the kids) we are at about half of the cost to fly.
If for some reason the tickets drop dramatically before we go I think driving is worth it. More $$ to spend at the parks, eating, souvenirs etc....
Sound about right or am I missing something?? And any route tips would be greatly appreciated. I heard that ppl in my area usually make it to around Savannah or ???? something with a B in georgia and stay there?
We plan to come down 1-95 as we do to SC but plan to leave a tad later in the am. We usually leave between 3-4am and have not had issues with DC traffic. But we are always so tired. No time to be tired in Disney. So dh thinks we should leave like 6am. Just worried about the traffic. Leaving on a Sat!
Thx!! :kiss: