for us, if your not going to drive straight through, traveling in the very early morning the better. you are either going to sleep on the road and get there a day later fresh or sleep at wdw and get there a day earlier and tired. it does feel better to get there a day earlier.
Thanks I am just getting really excited for our trip and seeing granddaughters reaction to her first trip to Disney
pending on were in nj you are, you can wake up real early, hit the road by 3-3:30am, go up 95 into s.carolina.(you miss alot of the 95 traffic) take 26 to 77 to 81. 81 will take you to either 78, which will head into the center of the state towards newark or you can hit 80 off of 81 and that will take you on a more northern rte. its a nice ride, its about 100 miles longer (about an hour or so longer) but its all open interstate. if you stay on 95, your going to crawl home from south of the border to nj.
We have done this 5 times. It is 1,300 miles one way for us. Going to Disney we take 2 days. We leave our house at 2 AM and stop in Savannah, Ga around 8 PM. Coming home it's "pedal to the metal". We switch off driving and are home in 23 hours. It's not pretty but it gets the job done. This year we are stopping on the way home because it is Easter. We are hoping to find a nice hotel somewhere in Va. (exit 61 Hopewell, Chester or somewhere around there) Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
We're from Bergen County NJ. Would you suggest taking 81 both ways? We leave on Friday 8/27 and return on Labor Day. I'm trying to get the extra day off so we can leave late on Thursday evening but might have to wait for Friday. Our original plan was to leave on Friday @ 8 or 9pm and drive straight down. I'm hoping the kiddies will sleep most of the night. For the return were planning on leaving Dis @ 10am. I guess that's not such a good idea.
I honestly don't know what I was thinking when I planned the dates!
We have a place in South Jersey so I know what it's like traveling around here on the weekends in the summer. I just never registered in my brain that it's not only the Garden State Pkwy that has summer traffic but the entire coast.
ok, 95 from dc to south of the boarder is the garden state pkwy on a friday from noon on. are you closer to 80? if you are, come across 80, you will hit rt33. its in the poconos by the outlet mall you can miss it. take rt33 which is a 4 lane highway. take it to i78. i78west to i81. its faster than coming all the way across 80 to 81. or if your closer to i78 take i78 to 81. i78 is the main interstate between pa and newark airport and i287. need help, just yell. my dd has a dance comp this weekend over in nj. i know im going i78 to i287 north.
We're from Bergen County NJ. Would you suggest taking 81 both ways? We leave on Friday 8/27 and return on Labor Day. We have a place in South Jersey so I know what it's like traveling around here on the weekends in the summer. I just never registered in my brain that it's not only the Garden State Pkwy that has summer traffic but the entire coast.
im going down on friday june 17th and thats the way im going. non summer traffic times i take 81-66-17-95 but you will sit on 95 going that way.
Ah, easier said than done. We find it very difficult to sleep before a trip...and we've been doing "straight-through" drives of late. We end up catching a vehicle nap in VA. It's not what we would call "a good night's sleep" but it helps.
All the best.
it start about 3 days out for me. i sleep about 4 hours a night. the night before we leave, ill sleep about 3 hours,get up at 2:30am,leave,drive till about 2pm. dw takes over for about 2 hours and i finish the rest.even then, it will take me about 2-3 days after we get there till i can sleep about 7-8 hours. dw says im nuts.
