Cheap weekend vacation within driving distance

What’s your location? What do you consider driving distance? Instead of saying cheap, what’s the budget (everyone has a different cheap #)?

Also, when it comes to “cheap” you often get what you pay for with it being over crowded

Maybe try for one of the hotels in Gulf Shores or Orange Beach.
There is a Marriott property (Spring Hill Suites) in Orange Beach that is across the street from the beach. It had a pool and a cart that brings you across to the beach.

there are a bunch of nice cabins on the homochitto and bogue chitto rivers in MS an hour from your house. The ones we like are on shallow areas with sand beaches where you can just turn the kids (and dogs) loose while you relax

you can also take the family kayaking/canoeing/tubing in the area

Good suggestion and one I often make for my friends, But keep it a little farther west (Long Beach, pass Christian) if you want to be less crowded. Pass Christian has a couple of nice boutique hotels, some Airbnbs, and some good restaurants. You can take the ferry out to ship island, go see the nasa museum, the aquarium (though it’s reportedly expensive for what it is), the Biloxi tour train, Biloxi shuckers game, etc…

look up blue heron cabin and thunder ridge brushy creek cabin. You can book both on airbnb. Both are on shallow rivers with easy access

here’s the kayak place we use, mcgees creek is beautiful and perfectly safe to float/swim

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Those are still over 200.00 a night.

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Yeah I guess that’s the summer rates.
The hotels with the nice pools and lazy River, etc in the Biloxi are are probably at least $250/night on the weekends

If he is looking for next weekend the IP would 570 for Friday till Sunday. Now if cost is an issue he could stay in Pascagoula for under 400 for those dates and just drive the 10 minutes to the beach.


Now if you are willing to do Airbnb they have a few Condos and townhouses around that have pools and would be near the beach for under 600. Entire places to yourself as well.

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Beach...kind of.

Maybe this will interest you.

Chestnut Bay resort

It is about a 6 hour drive, on a lake, multiple pools, lake homes at a reasonable price.