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5 Simple Ways To Plan A Family Vacation To West Virginia
Okay, full disclosure: we want you to come to southern West Virginia. Guess the secret’s out! But here are some tips you can use to plan a family vacation to anywhere. Even somewhere that’s, say, not the most beautiful mountains on earth (ahem!). These little shortcuts can save you money while you’re away from home. And more importantly, they can make sure that everyone has a great time on vacation. 1. Check On Events Specials Here’s the secret about events: They’re everywhere. And businesses will often offer special discounts on lodging, food, and activities surrounding the event. This is a great way to save and plan at the same time. Plus, searching for events is a good way to plan your vacation around something everyone in the family enjoys, like a music festival or river fest or a huge 4th of July event. 2. Plan On The Shoulder If you can make your schedule more flexible than the next person, you’ll end up ahead. Midweek is the time to book everything: more availability, lower rates, and less crowded. Plus one more benefit: We cannot confirm this -it’s only a rumor- but supposedly, the weather is better during the week. Going to have to check the almanac on that one. 3. Double Check On Activities A lot of outdoor adventures have age or weight guidelines for kids. It’s always a good idea to call again after you’ve booked to double check that you’re reservationist got you in the right space. There’s really nothing worse than showing up booked for the wrong trip or activity, especially when there are kids involved. Checking up saves time and possibly tears in the long run. 4. Crowdsource Your Vacation Ideas The tools to review your experience exist for almost everything today, and vacations lead the way. Check online to see how others have rated a particular experience, and ask the community what they think. This idea of crowdsourcing is a powerful tool to make your vacation dollars -and more importantly, your vacation hours- count. 5. Use A Convention And Visitors Bureau You didn’t think we’d leave this out, did you? In fact, we saved the best tip for last. Use a CVB (hey, that’s us!) to help plan your trip, and you can’t go wrong. Why? Helping plan trips is our business. And we’re free to use! CVBs are a wealth of local information, and isn’t that really what you’re looking for? The best restaurants, the right activities, the perfect lodging… these are the questions we at the Southern West Virginia CVB answer every day. What about you? Have a little go-to advice for planning a family vacation? Something West Virginia specific, maybe? We’d love to hear about it. We’d love to help you even more.
What No One Knows About Bridge Day
Bridge Day. Around here, those are some big words. Everyone knows that Bridge Day is the largest festival in West Virginia. We also know that it has to be seen to be believed. It’s a spectacle. That much, we can all agree on. Bridge Day is about as cool as it gets. But there are always other rumors, and questions, and misunderstandings about what’s going on from year to year. So, we’re here to tell you, with this blog post, some of those little Bridge Day secrets that will make you the authority when it comes to info on the big day. We’ve put together a group of facts, trivia, and logistical info for you to jump into (get it? oosh- sorry) before Bridge Day arrives. No need to thank us :-) 1. Bridge Day sells more funnel cake per capita than any other festival in the country. Actually, we’re just basing that on our own love of funnel cake. Don’t quote us on that one. 2. Jumpers have to qualify for the lottery to get a pass to jump It's first-come, first-served until all 450 slots are gone and they always sell out. There’s always a ton of confusion about this one from us, the un-jumping public, on this one. They have to have 140 100 skydive jumps before getting a ticket for the bridge. Once they get their spot, they can jump as many times as they like from open to close. For more information for B.A.S.E. jumpers, visit http://www.bridgeday.info. 3. Bridge Day 2009 is on Saturday, October 17. Okay, not so secret. 4. Taste Of Bridge Day, the eating party with all the restaurants from the New River Gorge cooking their best dishes, is on Friday night before the big day. This party is in contention with Bridge Day itself for best event of the weekend. 5. The First Annual Bridge Day Chili Cookoff will start just after the festivities on the bridge end on Saturday, and has one of the greatest slogans of any chili cookoff ever. Ready for it? “Jumping. Beans.” Get it? Awesome. 6. Bridge Day is as much about rappelling as it is about jumping. The ropes hanging off of the bridge on Bridge Day are from 750 to 800 feet long. There’s also a zipline hanging off the bridge that’s open to the public, if you can believe that. You should, because it’s true. 7. The Bridge Day website has every single piece of information about bridge day ever released. If you have any questions about the event, click on over there to check it out. 8. All of your photos, videos, and comments can be shared with the entire world (and definitely the Bridgeday audience) by tagging them with #bridgeday when you upload to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, or Twitter. You can then check out everything that everyone has said about the festival by going to the social media newsroom at Bridge Day social media newsroom 9. All of the New River Gorge rafting outfitters have Bridge Day specials. It’s one thing to go to a festival like this one, but it’s another thing entirely to show up via whitewater raft. 10. No bungee jumping. Questions? We’d love to answer them. Get in touch with us, and we can help plan your Bridge Day this year. Otherwise, see you on the Bridge!
