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I don't see the point of booking something without knowing the weather unless you don't care about throwing it away and going somewhere else. My initial plan wa
by learc83 9y ago
I don't see the point of booking something without knowing the weather unless you don't care about throwing it away and going somewhere else. My initial plan was to book several hotels in different areas, but it seems like every hotel inside the path of totality requires a 2 week notice to cancel (and this was months ago).
Since I'm about 1.5 hours from the path of totality in Georgia, my current plan is to drive out at like 3AM (before the roads have a chance to get packed) and just stay in the area.
If it looks like the weather isn't going to cooperate, I'm going to leave a day earlier. Get a hotel outside of the path of totality, and do the same thing I was planning to do at home (leave at 3AM to drive into it).
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI'm in New York. I'm more than 1.5 hours away from the totality, so I'm going to have to head south and hope - although, I'm in the somewhat enviable position of just being able to sleep in a car... as long as someone cracks the window and leaves me a bowl of water. On the other hand, the totality will pass in the very early afternoon, so I can probably just head back once it's over.
- bradleyjg 9y agoAre you thinking Greenville? Columbia? Somewhere off I-95?
- pavel_lishin 9y agoYeah, I was looking at Georgia and South Carolina - seems like the most reasonable destination. A train is going to take me 16 hours, minimum - and a car will take 12. I might just go ahead and book a flight, but then I still need a car.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoBook it months in advance, and then the price is normal. That's what I did. I'll be in Salem.
- learc83 9y agoBut you're still out the money in case of heavy cloud cover. And I don't trust people not to cancel early bookings once they realize what kind of prices they can get.
- ars 9y agoI thought of that, but the chances of the hotel canceling at the last minute after someone else throws money at them was just to high.
- PhantomGremlin 9y agoAre you sure you still have a reservation??? There were some big news stories here in Oregon about this. People made reservations literally a year in advance, only to have the hotels cancel them once they figured out why people were booking! The only good news is some hotels may have done people a favor. Those were on the Oregon coast, in the Lincoln City and Newport areas, where, even in the middle of August, there's a good chance of overcast skies (marine air).
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoThat's an excellent point. I'll call them to confirm. Thanks.