Driving to Charleston with kids: straight through, or break it up? And where?

[Anonymous]

Is there anyplace interesting worth a stop or overnight between DC and Charleston, SC?

[Anonymous]

I'm a Charleston native who lives in DC. I recommend driving straight through. 95 through NC is kinda meh and getting to Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham (a possible stopping point) would take extra time. If you leave early or late enough (overnight drive), you should be ok.

[Anonymous]

I've done both and prefer leaving early and driving straight through. There is nowhere good to stop.

[Anonymous]

Drive straight through. It's not that far.

[Anonymous]

Straight through

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drive straight through. It's not that far.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drive straight through. It's not that far.

+1

+1. Be sure to leave by 6am though, especially summer weekends and holidays. I-95 is miserable until you get to the NC state line.

[Anonymous]

Thanks!

We have four kids, and driving long distances with them isn't very pleasant.

We won't drive overnight. We know a family that was involved in a serious accident when driving overnight from Florida (one child died, and everyone else was hospitalized). That, coupled with the fact that neither DH or I have the stamina to stay up all night, nixes the overnight drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Charleston native who lives in DC. I recommend driving straight through. 95 through NC is kinda meh and getting to Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham (a possible stopping point) would take extra time. If you leave early or late enough (overnight drive), you should be ok.

Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham?
Why in the hell would you go that far off 95 when going to Charleston.

Go straight through. Just get south of Richmond as quickly as possible.

[Anonymous]

we left our house around 7 pm and drove to a holiday inn express about 10 miles this side of "south of the border" sorry I don't remember the name. Then got up in morning and drove and was at the Charleston acquarium by lunchtime. sweet!

[Anonymous]

Straight through. We do it every year.
Leave DC area by 5:30-6:00, stop for breakfast along the way.
You will be in Charleston by early afternoon/happy hour.

[Anonymous]

We recently drove to Charleston with our 1.5 yr old. We stopped overnight on the way down, and each leg we made a stop halfway for lunch/ to get energy out. We stopped in Rocky Mount for the overnight. On our way back home we drove straight through with a stop for lunch and a couple rest stop breaks. I was nervous bc we had never driven that far with her and I didn't think she would do well. It was definitely better driving straight through and it was so much better to just get it all done with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drive straight through. It's not that far.

+1

+1. Be sure to leave by 6am though, especially summer weekends and holidays. I-95 is miserable until you get to the NC state line.

drive straight through, but it's long as F--K. Once we stopped around lumberton, NC and spent the night and it was great to be in Charleston by noon/early afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Agree with the driver straight through crowd. Leave early, really early, and stop for breakfast after a few hours.

[Anonymous]

Op, we do this drive frequently and agree with the straight through method. Time it so that you are ready to stop for a BBQ lunch at exit 107 in Kenley, NC, at Stormin Norman's! (Note: they are not open on M/T).