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Driving from ny to wdw best time to leave thinking Thursday 6 pm the next day is Good Friday
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JMcMahonEsq
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When are you making the drive BigMoose? We are doing the same drive (well from north Jersey) during Jersey Week the first week in November.
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drwadadli
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Kinda depends on what part of eastern NY you are leaving from. If you are driving from NYC, it would take you about 4 - 4.5 hours to get to D.C.. Morning rush hour traffic around Baltimore-D.C. corridor starts around 6:00 a.m.. So based on that, you would want to leave no later than 1:00 a.m. to make sure you are close to or around D.C. before traffic really gets bad. Like @Marianm said, leaving around 10 - 11 p.m. would guarantee you would be past D.C. before traffic gets bad but remember that is you leave at that time, you then have to deal with morning Richmond, VA traffic as leaving at 10 - 11 p.m. would get you to Richmond around 6 - 7 a.m..
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drwadadli
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By doing this, you avoid rush hour traffic around D.C., Richmond, and Savannah and you would be going around / through Jacksonville between morning rush traffic and lunch time traffic.We did the drive last August, but we live in eastern pa and left at 10pm, and got to Disney about 1pm the following day. Since you are more north you may want to leave by 8pm. So long as you're good overnight driving
From NYC, it would take about 16 hours
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JMcMahonEsq
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We are making the trip from just outside NYC, but leaving on Friday afternoon, after the kids get out of school (call it 3:30). At that time, figuring getting on the road and heading south, what do you think the DC/Richmond traffic is going to look like? I would think leaving at 3:30 we would be hitting that area around 8:30 or so. Would it be better to power through the drive at that time, and get south of DC, or would it make sense to stop in south jersey someplace, have a sit down dinner, and let some time go by, and hit DC closer to 10:00-11? we have 2 drivers and each of us can drive for pretty extended periods without issue, and will be taking a van so the two kids should be laying out sleeping, so we would like to maximize night driving where we can.
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Marianm
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I never like sitting down for meals when driving distances. I feel like it kills time and makes you more tired. There's always traffic around that area except late at night. I would just leave your house later instead of stopping to eat, and hit D.C. Area closer to 11-midnight
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vinnya1726
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I have made the trip from Long Island 4 times and each time we have left between 10 and 1 and have always avoided DC....the earlier you leave the faster you will get through Richmond as well. I have had my fastest times leaving at 10, using arriving in Orlando in 18 hours.
Enjoy the trip!
Enjoy the trip!
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drwadadli
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At 8:30 p.m., you are still going to have a lot of traffic going from D.C. to Fredericksburg, VA but after that you should be clear sailing. I agree with @Marianm , I would sit down to eat. Eat at home and leave later or grab something a long the way. Sitting down to eat when driving long distances will take the steam out of you and make harder for you to drive. Plus, when you start to digest that big meal you just sat down to eat you will get sleepy faster. Grab a light meal on the go or snack occasionally would be better.
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So sorry getting back to u so late I’m going 6pm Thursday March 29 day before Good Friday. I know I’ll hit traffic at GW bridge and a little on the jersey bridge but it well put me in Baltimore and DC at around 10 or 11 sonpraying no traffic down there maybe drive like a hour or two more get a hotel and start again around 9or10 am
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JMcMahonEsq
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Yeah not stopping to eat is my general preference as well. My concern a bit is that due to needing to wait until 3 when school lets out, i don't want to wait around the house, because i want to get south of newark on the Garden State Parkway before rush hour. However, doing a straight drive leaving at 3:30 gets me to the DC window around 8:30. If i drove for say 3 hours, that gets me past rush hour Newark/North Jersey. Then kill time to allow DC area to clear, and then proceed down. But it might just work out to keep on trucking.
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Yes I think that’s a excellent plan I’m leaving Yonkers at 6pm my self I know I will hit traffic on the turnpike hopefully not to bad but it would put me in DC around 10 o’clock when they say the traffic not too bad at all I’m more scared of the DC traffic and I am on the Jersey turnpike very very used to the Jersey turnpike I always go to Atlantic City at least once a month so I know how to maneuver with that
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U can always sign them out a hour early also to beat the rush hour traffic I’m sure u thought of that not sure how happy the wife would be with that mine on the other hand don’t go for that at all so serious when it comes to school for my kids
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JMcMahonEsq
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Yes i was thinking about that too. The downside is they are already missing M,T,W that next week (half days but still count as full day absentee) so i would like for them to finish out the week with a full day.
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