Leanne and I have decided to take our three little monsters to Myrtle Beach this September. This will be our first real vacation since we went to Disney World back in 2014. We will be bringing my mother along to boost our adult to child ratio to 1:1 which should make the trip more manageable. The kids have never been to Myrtle Beach before. The girls haven’t even been out of the country.
The drive down to Myrtle Beach will take us 3 days due to the foreseen difficulty in transporting three small children. My very relaxed plan only has us being on the road approx. 5 hours per day. Driving non-stop would take about 15 hours but we will need a lot of stops to let the children burn off some energy. With this schedule we can essentially drive an hour and then stop for an hour if needed.
We could also fly down to Myrtle Beach as Spirit Airlines offers direct flights out of Niagara Falls, NY but flying with small children is something I would like to avoid as much as possible. Leanne and I somehow managed to survive flying down to Florida with an almost 2-year-old and we had a 2:1 adult to child ratio on that trip. Harry, who is now five, would be easy to fly with however, the girls will be one-year-old and three-years-old when we travel to Myrtle Beach and I know how difficult it will be flying anywhere with them. The amount of luggage and other baby and child accessories required for a week at the beach will be quite extensive. Besides the hassle of flying with little children I personally prefer the drive down as “getting there” is half the fun, especially the planning process.
I’ve planned the trip using a really awesome web app called Furkot, it’s similar in functionality to Google My Maps but it includes many more planning features my favourite being the ability to specify the duration of stops which allows for a very accurate schedule that can even be exported to a Calendar.
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