<p>Taking suggestions/ nominations:
Where’s a good place for a family (teenagers +us) to go for that weekend, within a 4 hr or so drive from here?</p>
<p>Anything particularly going on anyplace?</p>
<p>Would need to rent a house, or 3+ bedrooms anyway.</p>
<p>Used to be we had a regular place to go, but since we’ve come back don’t know what to do with ourselves anymore.</p>
<p>A 4 hour drive from NYC on Memorial Day weekend is probably only about 20 miles.</p>
<p>^^^that’s just too funny…I’m still laughing:)</p>
<p>so what do you like to do? Looking for a lot of action or a quieter, calmer holiday?</p>
<p>Rehobeth Beach?</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter what I want to do; so long as it can be justified as “vacation”.
wildwood or Cape Cod, ok. White Plains, not ok. Wherever we go, kids will not like it. (Unless you guyz know something). I will just walk around, maybe look at shops, get dinner maybe.</p>
<p>Re rehobeth beach, amazing I’m like 9 billion years old and I never heard of it.</p>
<p>Saratoga Springs?</p>
<p><a href=“Top Lake George Activities & Attractions: Amusement Parks, Tubing, Boat Rentals, Mini-Golf & Much More!”>http://www.lakegeorge.com/Guide/LG_Activties.cfm</a>
Lake George: something for everyone</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>How about the Poconos. It’s a great base camp for many fun things.
<a href=“http://www.whitewaterchallengers.com/[/url]”>http://www.whitewaterchallengers.com/</a>
This is a great way to spend the day! Seriously. And your teenagers will love ya forever.</p>
<p>Rehobeth Beach is in Delaware - it’s similar to the Jersey shore. Atlantic Ocean, board walk, mini golf. There’s a nice art association which occassionally has shows and some pretty nature preserves as well.</p>
<p>Can one kill a weekend in Saratoga Springs?</p>
<p>I was up there with D2 looking at Skidmore, but didn’t scope it out with this in mind.</p>
<p>Probably the Performing Arts stuff won’t have started up yet. Same with Tanglewood.</p>
<p>Whitewater is good idea for another year, thanks. As are the others.</p>
<p>edad – very funny, but oh so true! That was exactly my thought when I read the initial post. We recently moved out of the metro NYC area to a quieter part of CT. We never left on Friday afternoon/evening for a long weekend, or any weekend, for that matter!</p>
<p>A cool, sort of out-of-the-way place where you might be able to get a short-term rental on a big house is Eagles Mere, PA. It’s in the middle of nowhere – draw a line between Williamsport and Wilkes-Barre, go to the midpoint, and head 50 miles north from there. It’s 3-1/2 hours from Philadelphia, and probably about the same from New York.</p>
<p>What it is, is a small, Chatauqua-style community around a lovely small lake in the middle of the Allegheny Mountains (which is really the Allegheny Plateau with a bunch of deep gorges). Most of the houses are charming Victorian cottages, some quite large and elaborate. It’s close to really lovely, underused state parks with great hiking and scenery, and the community itself is a great place to walk and to hang out, play tennis, etc. During August, it’s the kind of place where a swarm of 12-year-olds will appear on bikes, one of them will notice something interesting in the woods, they’ll all jump off their bikes and leave them lying on the side of the road, and two hours later they’ll emerge from whatever they were doing in the woods with all the bikes undisturbed. </p>
<p>It’s dry (and generally retail-free), although liquor and groceries can be purchased about 10 miles away. I wouldn’t recommend it for older teens for a long vacation, but it would be great for a long weekend of family togetherness. All the rentals are handled by Sullivan County Real Estate (or something like that) (at least they used to be).</p>
<p>Sorry had to go before, have more time now.</p>
<p>Basically I’m expecting to do exactly the same thing we could do if we just stayed here. But with a change of scenery, and no basement to de-flood. And we get to pay for the pleasure of doing just the same thing as we could do here, and also get stuck in massive traffic jams in each direction.</p>
<p>Hey what can I say this trip is not my idea.</p>
<p>Given that we (parents) will probably just walk around someplace, a place that’s actually interesting to walk around in would be good, all things being equal. And, if at the same time there were other activities so that the teens could ditch us, with our active consent and encouragement, that would be all the better. And since we are going for a change of scenery it wouldn’t hurt if there actually was some scenery.</p>
<p>Cutesy shops, good; malls, chain stores and Wal-marts bad. But schlock shops selling trinkets with the name of the place do not count as cutesy they’re just pathetic.</p>
<p>Something to do at night would be a plus. Like community theater or music.</p>
<p>Probably will not be very active this trip, maybe hit a tennis ball if there’s one around. But not a must. If there was an indoor pool I might swim in it. Otherwise I won’t.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.capemaymac.org/Tours-Events/this-week-in-cape-may-tours-events.htm[/url]”>http://www.capemaymac.org/Tours-Events/this-week-in-cape-may-tours-events.htm</a></p>
<p>Cape May NJ</p>
<p>JHS, that place sounds wonderful; a lot like my #1 destination choice, actually, which is Ithaca NY. Problem is, rest of my family will not go to Ithaca NY, just to spite me it seems. Maybe they’ll go someplace else that offers essentially the same thing but is not what I am pushing. I’ll tee it up, anyway.</p>
<p>Actually another nice place for a weekend might be Frenchtown, PA. It’s on the Delaware River. Full of antiques. You can rent canoes or rafts.</p>
<p>Baltimore…Inner Harbor</p>
<p>Washington D.C.</p>
<p>Cape May, NJ</p>
<p>Martha’s Vineyard. You can fly from La Guardia. </p>
<p>Bay Head New Jersey. You can’t fly:).</p>
<p>You really should seriously consider Rehoboth/Bethany Beach/Cape May area. The crowds don’t show up until July 4th usually. Lots of rental houses of all price levels from walk to beach to on the ocean. Walk on beach. Walkable town/village with shops/restaurants. Quite a few shops in Rehoboth; some also in Bethany. I’m not as familiar with Cape May. Kids can do their own thing at the Beach/boardwalk in Rehoboth and reconnoiter with you. Boardwalk is nice, not laden with tacky t-shirt places (although, heck, there are some - it’s the beach).</p>
<p>A nice place to visit is Red Bank, NJ. Great downtown community. Tons of restaraunts, shopping and nightlife. Internet Cafe, coffee houses and starbucks for the teens. There are links below, one for The Molly Pitcher Hotel. With light traffic it should be about an hour from Manhattan. There’s a NJ Transit Station there with direct service to Penn Station. And Seastreak fast ferries from nearby Atlantic Highlands.</p>
<p><a href=“Home - Red Bank Visitors Center”>Home - Red Bank Visitors Center;
<p><a href=“http://www.mollypitcher-oysterpoint.com/mollypitcher/[/url]”>http://www.mollypitcher-oysterpoint.com/mollypitcher/</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.waynesmarket.com%5B/url%5D”>www.waynesmarket.com</a></p>
<p>Cape May = great idea.</p>
<p>Can you kill a weekend in Saratoga Springs? Yes if you like outdoorsy stuff too. But if you just want to shop/eat, probably not. </p>
<p>I’d recommend Lake Placid, but it’s a little far and still very COLD up there on Memorial weekend.</p>
<p>Has anybody suggested Newport?</p>