HW/Beech Bend Airport Options?

Hotel rooms...for Holiwood Nights? I spoke to Nasai a few weeks ago and he said the closest he could find was in Tell City, down on the KY boarder. Good luck!!!!

I guess it's a good thing that I've got a buddy who lives an hour away, especially since I still haven't decided if I can make it. Although I'm now leaning towards 'most likely'. :)

edit: So I guess that means the campground is full? Not that I'm surprised with it being a big holiday weekend and all.

*** Edited 3/23/2006 5:03:19 AM UTC by Incidentalist***

I fail to understand why more people don't do this: regardless if you know if you can make an event or not as soon as one that interests you is announced why not make a hotel reservation? Reserve it on a credit card...they do not charge it until 6pm the day of check-in. 99% of the time you can cancel it*. If it turns out you can go you're set and not left searching far away for rooms. If you can't go, you cancel without penalty.

Simple! I do it ALL the time.

mOOSH

*Many hotels do require you to cancel withing a certain time period, i.e. by noon that day or one day prior for example. Make sure to check each hotel's policy. Unless you're using Priceline or other bid/auction prepay site you reservation[s] can be cancelled.

*** Edited 3/23/2006 5:04:38 AM UTC by Mamoosh***

If I end up going, I'll be going with my buddy from Vincennes, IN. I know he'd prefer to crash at his own place since it's not too far away, as would I.

So, unless there is going to be a central location for a post-ERT party, I've no need to stick around. Even then, unless it's at the campground I probably wouldn't stick around anyway.

I was speaking in general terms, Inci ;)

I know, but I thought I'd explain why I was so negligent.

If my buddy in Vincennes (or Robo) can't/won't go, I'll just hit HW some other weekend. Only 3.5 hours away! :)

Part of me would rather spend that weekend somewhere else:

http://www.summercampfestival.com/

So tempting, for me anyway. ;)

*** Edited 3/23/2006 5:34:59 AM UTC by Incidentalist***

I've been checking into a summer trip to Holiday World that will hopefully include Beech Bend as well. Bowling Green happens to have a Corvette Museum and it's where they build them also. There's a factory tour at 9am and 1pm for $5 (it does say to call ahead for reservations). The main reason I bring this up is because it would provide something different to the tour that my friend and I are whipping up, and I've heard from a trusted enthusiast that Beech Bend is not a place that warrants a long stay.

^^^^^^^^I've been to the museum 2 years ago, and it's pretty cool. I didn't do the tour though. They had some kind of Vette Event going on at the time, and the motel parking lot where we stayed was filled with Vettes. Made me wish that I had brought mine along for the ride. I'm still debating if I want to do it for the Holiwood Night's/Rumblefest events.

Both Holiday World and Beech Bend Parks are in one of the largest areas on the Planet of what Geologists call "Karst Topography". (For those of you in Rio Linda this means an area where the underlying Limestone Bedrock is honeycombed with Underground Caverns.)

Within 50 miles of Holiday World there are Eight Caves that are open to the Public for tours, and within 50 miles of Beech Bend Park there is Mammoth Cave National Park and at least nine other Caves that are open for tours! :)

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Raven Maven said:
Huntington is actually 4-5 hours away.

I think you mean Huntingburg.

Paula

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Actually 4 or less, depending on how fast I want to drive. ;-) So when is HW going to start marketing in Southern WV Paula? I can't do the work all by myself. ;-) I will keep sending peeps your way, though.

Lousiville would be the best bet, depending on what parks you want to do.

-Tina

And near Mammoth Cave is an assortment of weird roadside tourist traps that are good for a laugh (alpine slides and biblical mini golf). Visit whatever is left of Guntown Mountain (once the scariest-looking amusement park I ever saw).

Coasters and spelunking? Does Hades qualify?

Seriously, Mammoth Cave is pretty cool. As a geology student in undergrad I had the opportunity to visit many areas of that cave system that are off limits to the general masses. Not sure I'd want to go back to some of those areas in my, now, enlarged state. :)

Mmmmm, Karst topography, mmmmmm