800 miles and 8 hours round trip for maybe three nights?

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Why not stay home and have your husband take the kids? You sound rigid and inflexible and maybe you could use the break. I drive to NYC for a few hours to visit family. The drive to NY isn't long but once there if you don't make it to the belt parkway or the bridges into the city before 11 you are going to be in a lot of traffic. He should take an acela and take the kids solo. You don't need a car in NYC.

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Anonymous wrote:I have driven up to NY and back in a single day for a meal!

I bus up and back for a meal about every 6 months. I drink wine at the meal. Costs $40

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Anonymous wrote:I flew to Athens, Greece for a weekend. From Newark (I live in Virginia). A weekend trip to NY is a nothing burger.

This is just dumb and shouldn't be considered as normal and responsible behavior.

[Anonymous]

Wear on the car?!

[Anonymous]

We recently spent two nights at a cabin that was a 2.5 hr drive each way and I felt like I’d had a vacation. I’d happily go a bit further and spend 3 nights. Is your concern NY, the drive, or both?

I’ll add the caveat that our 7 year old gets carsick and threw up on the drive there and I’d still do it!

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s weird to park in nj and take public transportation to nyc. It’s not hard to drive in the city. Sure, parking isn’t cheap, but it’s convenient to not have to use public transportation. Just pay for a garage…like a grown up.

+1. You aren't going to save money or "hassle" by parking in NJ with 4 people. Folks act like we're living in 1990 and everything is "so hard." It's called spothero. Look it up on that little computer you have in your pocket.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re weird OP. This is a totally normal trip.

If you don’t want to go, maybe see if DH will go alone and take kids.

I’m not sure driving is all that cheaper tho. And it’s so much more stressful than taking the train. With tolls, gas, and 45 to 75 dollars per night parking, driving to nyc isn’t cheap

it’s definitely cheaper than taking the train for 4 people.

Maybe but parking in NYC for 3 days won’t be cheap. Maybe OP can find a park and ride lot or something just outside the city to park cheaper and take a train into the center

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re weird OP. This is a totally normal trip.

If you don’t want to go, maybe see if DH will go alone and take kids.

I’m not sure driving is all that cheaper tho. And it’s so much more stressful than taking the train. With tolls, gas, and 45 to 75 dollars per night parking, driving to nyc isn’t cheap

it’s definitely cheaper than taking the train for 4 people.

Maybe but parking in NYC for 3 days won’t be cheap. Maybe OP can find a park and ride lot or something just outside the city to park cheaper and take a train into the center

Whoops - I see my concern was discussed after I decided to post this. Yes, Spothero works but OP should be aware that they will literally catalog her car in a parking shelf and there will be no access until her reservation is complete!

[Anonymous]

Stay at a hotel with parking. Easy peasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re weird OP. This is a totally normal trip.

If you don’t want to go, maybe see if DH will go alone and take kids.

I’m not sure driving is all that cheaper tho. And it’s so much more stressful than taking the train. With tolls, gas, and 45 to 75 dollars per night parking, driving to nyc isn’t cheap

it’s definitely cheaper than taking the train for 4 people.

Maybe but parking in NYC for 3 days won’t be cheap. Maybe OP can find a park and ride lot or something just outside the city to park cheaper and take a train into the center

Whoops - I see my concern was discussed after I decided to post this. Yes, Spothero works but OP should be aware that they will literally catalog her car in a parking shelf and there will be no access until her reservation is complete!

Why would you want access in NYC??

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand your hesitation? If I lived within 4 hrs drive of NYC, I’d do it for a weekend trip for sure. We used to drive 9.5 hrs (650ish miles) one way (total of 19 hrs/1300 miles round trip) to visit my parents. That is a road trip. 4 hrs (about 230 miles from DC-NYC, by the way not 400 miles) to NYC barely counts as a road trip in my frame of reference.

I just worry it will be hectic and not relaxing considering the drive time. We don’t take lots of driving trips, as I mentioned, so I guess my experience is minimal. Four hours each way for, essentially 2.5 days, just doesn’t seem worth it to me, but I don’t have anything to compare it to. We normally take long trips via air travel.

If you were to fly to NY, by the time you drive to airport, check-in etc. and get to the city on the other end, the trip is not that much shorter than 4 hours.