14 hour drive with 4 year olds. Possibility?

[tinklover]

your trip is doable. we drive down every year to visit my mom she is aprrox. 16 hours away. DBF and I have a 3 yr old DD and a 4 yr old DD. we start late in the afternoon and we have a double screen portable DVD player ( BIG HELP). we stop for dinner and I then drive thru the night. we stop at south of the border to change drivers and get gas. the girls sleep thru the night in the vehicle and we also bring books for daylight. we also stop to stretch and let the DD's out to stretch their legs as well. With enough planning and car activities you should have a great trip. We wish you the best of luck and hope you have a magical experience. I hope the twins have a great birthday as well.. I am also a December Baby and i have always wated to go to disney for my birthdayBUt the Db's job does not allow vacation time during the christmas season. I really hate retail now LOL.

[Speedy1998]

I don't mean to be negative and a lot of people have done the drive and love it but if the reason for driving is monetary, it may not actually be as worth the drive and it sounds. Just wanted to give another view.

90 more days!!!!

The Drive cost me $400 to $500 in gas and $100 for the room total $600. To fly cost me $500 per ticket * 4 tickets total of $2000.00. If you add into it that I can bring breakfast food from home to eat at Disney, driving is way cheaper.

[vamaggie]

can't recommend books-on-tape enough...the kids seem to get totally immersed in a story, and they're a nice (often quiet) break from DVD's.

Another for the books on tape. They also allow for some drifting off to sleep which the DVD player seems to make harder for my kids (since they have to focus on seeing the movie).

[caryrae]

I tell ya after flying from the the Twin Cities to Egypt with a 3 year old anything is possible. We flew from Minneapolis to Amsterdam to Egypt. The longest most boring flights of my life there's only so much you can do on airplane for so many hours.

[momof3+twins]

Four is a great age. I don't think there will be a problem at all. We have made the trip with much younger children. It is an 18 hour drive for us. So, when we take the twins for the in the Spring we are going to stop half way (exactly 9 hours). We aren't planning on driving through the night. We are going to have TVs. And we have never really stopped that much. But, I think that stopping half way and letting them swim in the pool will help survive the second day.

[luvourtwo]

Still can't decide on the night driving, or splitting the drive up. I'm thinking that flying is out. I realize that hotel and dining cost do bring the cost of the drive up to near that of flying, but I am also looking forward to having my own vehicle to bring everything I want to pack. We are also going to Sea World and the beach, so I'd hate to think of hauling everything around in a rental. A December trip is going to require us to pack more clothes (don't know if we will need shorts or parkas!), so with our family of four we may also need a U-Haul.

We are not planning to do anything our day of arrival, maybe go swimming and to Downtown Disney. This may allow the night time drive to work.

Thanks to everyone for your input and ideas. I am so excited and cannot wait!