Hershey Road Trip Idea

I saw that commercial about the hershey 12 or 10 day road trip, and I put a lot of thought into what I would do. I would make it a roller coaster road trip. This is the order of the trip.

Day 1: Valleyfair/Camp Snoopy.
Day 1-2: Heading to Six Flags Great America
Day 2: Six Flags Great America
Day 2-3: Head to Cedar Point
Day 3/4/5: Cedar Point
Day 6: Geauga Lake
Day 7: Paramount's Kings Island
Day 8: Dorney Park/Knoebels
Day 9: Hershey Park/Lakemont
Day 10: Head Back To Wisconsin

What would your road trip be?

Day 1: Visionland/SFOG
Day 2: SFOG
Day 3: Carowinds
Day 4: Kings Dominion
Day 5: SFAmerica
Day 6: SFGAdv.
Day 7: Hersheypark
Day 8: Kennywood
Day 9: Geauga Lake
Day 10-11: Cedar Point
Day 12: PKI
Day 13: SFKK
Day 14: Holiday World

Day 1- Valleyfair!

Day 2- Head to Cedar Point

Day 3,4- Cedar Point

Day 5- Paramount's King's Island

Day 6- Dorney Park

Day 7- Hershey Park

Day 8- Six Flags Great Adventure

Day 9- Dollywood

Day 10,11- Head back to Minnesota, with pit stop at Six Flags Great America.

Day 12- Back home.

hmm.... LA to Hershey

Day 1: Drive to Albuquerque (12hrs5min)

Day 2: Cliff's Amusement Park

Day 3: Drive to Branson, MO (13hr 20min)

Day 4: Silver Dollar City/ Celabration City

Day 5: Drive to Santa Claus, In (7hrs3min) and do Holiday World

Day 6: (could do Holiday World) Drive to Hershey, PA (10hrs26min)

Day 7: Hersheypark

Day 8: Drive to Sandusky, OH.(6hrs25min) Do Cedar Point

Day 9: Cedar Point

Day 10: Drive to Iowa.(12hrs16min or 9hrs) Do Arnold's Park or Adventure Land

Day 11: Drive to Colorado.(+/-10hrs29min) Spend night

Day 12: Drive to Salt Lake(8hrs) for Lagoon.

Day 13: Drive back to LA.(11hrs) *** Edited 5/30/2004 4:39:49 AM UTC by Coaster File***

I think Maxil223 and Steel Venom07 redo their trips better. It looks like alot of double backs and forths (Alot added miles and time). Maybe they should look at a map for better planning. Maxil223 I would of doing CP,GL, then Knoebels,DP and save PKI on the way back to the badger state. Steel Venom07 I would skip VF(I think VF is SV07 home park) and do PKI on the way home from Dollywood. VF is my home park I can VF any time.

Well, since I am only 50 miles away it would be very hard to do, but here we go...

Day 1: Knoebel's
Day 2: Lakemont Park/DelGrosso's
Day 3: Kennywood
Day 4: Conneaut Lake/Waldameer
Day 5: Geauga Lake
Day 6: Cedar Point
Day 7: Cedar Point
Day 8: King's Island
Day 9: William's Grove
Day 10: Hersheypark/Back to Bloomsburg *** Edited 5/30/2004 5:38:21 AM UTC by TalonJosh1491***

1.Six Flags New England

2. Knoebels/Dorney

3. Hershey

4 Six Flags Great Adventure

5. Six Flags America

6. Paramount Kings Domion

7.Busch Gardens Williamsburg

8.Paramount Carowinds

9.Six Flags Over Georgia

10. Return home. *** Edited 5/30/2004 3:39:46 PM UTC by Crashmando***

Just came home to europe today from our trip through ohio and pennsylvania. With days in between for driving and stuff our trip was:

1. Waldameer Park - also tried Conneaut Lake but was closed
2. Geauga Lake
3. Cedar Point (2 days)
4. Dorneypark
5. Knoebels
6. Hersheypark
7. Kennywood
8. Paramount's Kings Island

BIG FUN! Hope i can get a trip-report up sometime, but i guess i first have to let all those new parks, coasters and impressions get set a little.

1)Half day at Great Escape, half day drive to SFNE.

2)SFNE/Night:Drive to Hershey Park

3)Hershey Park/Drive to SFGAdv.

4)SFGAdv./Drive to Paramount Kings Dominion

5)Paramount Kings Dominion

6)Drive to SFGAm.

7)SFGAm./Drive to CP.

8-9)CP

10)Drive Home

Not that good but hey, it's what I would do.

Its in a fricken RV that your not driving, who cares how long the drives are. You sleep in the RV. Its more like a bus but yeah, who cares. I honestly only want to go to Cedar Point.

RE-Done Road Trip
Day 1-Drive to cedar Point
Day 2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9-Spend at cedar point
Day 10-Drive back to valleyfair
Day 11-Spend at vallyefair
Day 12-spend at vf and then come home.

Word.

That is a lot of time at Cedar Point. I would at least run over to Geauga Lake for one day Maxil.

That wouldnt be such a bad idea. What would your trip be?

I don't have time to come up with a trip I can't go on right now... I go to Cedar Point or King's Island just about every week so those are out. I plan on taking a trip to Kennywood, Knoebel's, Hershey, Dorney, Darien Lake, and Canada's Wonderland at some point this year. Those may all be 1 trip or possilbe 3 trips.

How about a trip all across the United States going to parks. Can you imagine what that would cost.

1. SFMM

2. Drive to Knotts

3. Knotts Berry Farm

4. Hershypark

5. Drive to Dorney

6. Dorneypark

7. SFStL

8. Six Flags Mexico

9. CP

10. Alton Towers.

(NOTE: All mileages are as reported on rcdb which lists distance as the crow flies, not actual driving distance)
Day 1 - Hershey
(41 miles to Knoebels)
Day 2 - Knoebels
(171 miles to SFDL)
Day 3 - SFDL
(47 miles to Seabreeze)
Day 4 - Seabreeze/MFI (71 miles from SB to MFI)
(5 miles to Marineland)
Day 5 - Marineland
(59 miles to PCW)
Day 6 - PCW
(15 miles to CNE)
Day 7 - CNE
(111 miles to Waldameer)
Day 8 - Waldameer/Conneaut (33 miles from Waldameer to Conneaut)
(89 miles from Conneaut to KW)
Day 9 - Kennywood
(31 miles from KW to Idlewild)
Day 10 - Idlewild/Lakemont (48 miles from Idlewild to Lakemont)
(12 miles from Lakemont to DelGrosso's)
Day 11 - DelGrosso's/Dutch Wonderland (112 miles from DelGrosso's to DW)
(29 miles from DW to HP)
Day 12 - Hersheypark

You can't go wrong with a road trip that begins and ends with HP...LOL

Seriously, since this is a "Hershey" road trip and HP is one of my favorite parks, I wanted to begin and end my trip there.

The methodology behind my trip is that I don't like to combine parks with a ton of driving so I didn't want to go too far. Thus my longest drive is between Knoebels and SFDL at 171 miles. The only day that may be a stretch is day 11. I have been to DW, but wanted to include it as well (since it is also owned by Hershey)..Still that could be a long day with the long drive between the two parks.

At the same time, I wanted to get some parks in there that I have not been to (Days 3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and half of day 11), with a few of my favorites that I have been to. This I opted to skip a trip that included the likes of DP, SFGAdv, Williams Grove and SFA. There is nothing wrong with those parks, I just couldn't fit them into my plan.

Sean
-now if I only had the money/time to take a trip like this-

Hmm, 12 days....

1.Lake Winnie/Nashville Valley Amusement Park/Beech Bend

2.Holiday World

3.Hw/SFKK

4.PKI

5.CP

6.CP/Geauga Lake

7.Dorney/Knoebel's

8.Hersheypark

9.SFNE/ Compounce

10.SFGADv

11.PKD/BGW

12.Carowinds

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Its in a fricken RV that your not driving, who cares how long the drives are. You sleep in the RV.

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How about a trip all across the United States going to parks. Can you imagine what that would cost.

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According to the official rules:

"Maximum of 8 hours chauffeur driving time per day."

Also:

"Trip includes chauffeur, chauffeur expenses and chauffeur hotel accommodations...Prize includes $6,000 for travel, hotel, gas, tolls, meals and general expenses plus $2,500 in American Express Travelers Checks spending money."

It becomes a bit more realistic when you have to follow the rules - And it's a 10 day trip, not a 12 day trip.

10 days?

Starting from Detroit:

Day 1: MiA, Fun Spot, then round out the day at IB (it can be done, but if not, drop FS)
Day 2: Holiday World
Day 3: SFKK and PKI
Day 4: PKI and drive to CP for the latter half of the day
Day 5: CP and GL
Day 6: KW
Day 7: Knoebels
Day 8: Dorney Park
Day 9: Hershey
Day 10: drive home.