My girlfriend and I are going to Phoenix in August. We were planning on taking the 6 and a half hour drive to six flags MM, but we both started to realize how much that turn our relaxing resort vacation into a go-go-go trip. After being so excited to finally go to SFMM, I called it off with a compromise. I told her I would forget about SFMM, as long as next year we went on a roller coaster oriented vacation, which we haven't done since Cedar Point, 5 years ago.
Here are the plans, so far. I live in St. Louis.
Day 1 - Drive 6 hours to King's Island.
Day 2 - Drive 6 more hours to King's Dominion
Day 3 - Drive an hour and a half to Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Day 4 & 5 and maybe 6 - Spend relaxing at Virginia beach and making the fiance (by that time we will be engaged) happy.
I figured the over all cost of the trip to be between 600-700 dollars, before food. We're moving in together this winter, so we decided we'd do a cheaper vacation, next year. We usually fly everywhere, and stay in resorts. This time we're going to drive and stay in cheaper, but clean hotels. Can anyone think of any other parks to hit on the way there or back that wouldn't put us out of the way more than an hour or so? Any advice or tips? All of our park time will be during the week.