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So you're driving from Palm Beach County back to Austin and you have to make an overnight stop around midway.  I'm not stopping in NOLA because we will do that on the way.  Below are my options - tell me where to stop and why or why not...

1. Mobile / Daphne, Alabama

2. Biloxi / Gulf Shores

3. ???

4. Profit

 

Note: Will have teenagers/family with me.  I don't gamble.    

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10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Drop down to Destin or Pensacola beach?

Its a quick overnight stay to split the trip... I'm not paying Destin summer prices for one night when I'm not really going to enjoy the beach for more than maybe an hour or two (if that).  Well, I don't know... maybe not Destin. Maybe Pensacola?  I don't know.  Really is just a stop for the night.

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48 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean....that IS the right answer.  It's not like there's not enough to do, and eat, over a multi-day span.

Only downside though is the drive from where we are staying to where we would stay in New Orleans is 11 1/2 hours.  That is with no stops.  I'll be pretty much beat by that point. I won't want to do anything.

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4 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Only downside though is the drive from where we are staying to where we would stay in New Orleans is 11 1/2 hours.  That is with no stops.  I'll be pretty much beat by that point. I won't want to do anything.

Do you even "hit the bar that night, then have a kickass brunch the next day," bro?

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Do you even "hit the bar that night, then have a kickass brunch the next day," bro?

With the fam? To be fair, we would be probably staying in the garden district and I know a good place for some good good food nearby That assumes an early ass start from Florida.

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Drove from Houston to Orlando and back with some relatives in 2023. On the way back we stopped in Biloxi, none of us had ever been. It was basically a cruise ship filled with cruise ship people on land. Not a place I’d want to go back to. 

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9 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Drove from Houston to Orlando and back with some relatives in 2023. On the way back we stopped in Biloxi, none of us had ever been. It was basically a cruise ship filled with cruise ship people on land. Not a place I’d want to go back to. 

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There are two right answers, so your original post merits a grade of F. 

1) Stop in Biloxi, grow a pair and gamble at one of the two decent casinos while telling your wife and kids to enjoy one of the restaurants within the premises. 

2) Stop again in New Orleans and eat a nice dinner with your wife and kids. 

The worst divorce fight I witnessed as a child happened in Pensacola. The only family vacation of my young life was to be at Disney World and Sea World for like 5 nights. Drive to Pensacola from Houston in a 4 door sedan. Stay at the La Quinta on I-10. Wake up and move on. 

Well, there was no Internet back then and my parents couldn't handle maps and directions well. Got lost driving around Pensacola after 12 hours on the road. After an hour, finally found the La Quinta across the freeway. At the red light, summoning Clark Griswold, my father suddenly takes a right and we're back on I-10. Florida doesn't have crossovers, even to this day in many places, so we drove another 15 miles down and 15 back while my mother unleashed a hurricane of cusswords, threats and ancient curses in a manner in which I've never seen another human being express. 

Don't stay in Pensacola. 

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When we moved from Corpus Christi to Fort Myers (and then later back to Lufkin), we stopped at Moss Point, MS both trips.  Intersection of IH-10 & Highway 63.

Wasn't fancy, but there's a few hotel options and a few food options.  Easy intersection with convenience stores for gas, coffee, and road snacks the next morning.  It just worked.  

Surprisingly good enchiladas and margs at Hacienda San Miguel, by the way.

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19 minutes ago, After irth said:

When we moved from Corpus Christi to Fort Myers (and then later back to Lufkin), we stopped at Moss Point, MS both trips.  Intersection of IH-10 & Highway 63.

Wasn't fancy, but there's a few hotel options and a few food options.  Easy intersection with convenience stores for gas, coffee, and road snacks the next morning.  It just worked.  

Surprisingly good enchiladas and margs at Hacienda San Miguel, by the way.

This may not be the worst idea.

How is Mississippi BBQ? https://www.taysbbq.com/moss-point-menu

Drove from UT to Fort Walton Beach in college.  Also from UT to Central FL to see spring baseball.   All I remember was that it was a dreadfully boring drive and you couldn't see squat from the highway.  Makes me long for a drive to NM, LOL.

 

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An alternate correct answer to this query is "stop wherever the hell you want....but the next morning, make sure to get up early, have breakfast at the nearest Waffle House, and get in a fight with a member of the staff, another patron, or both, in order to expose your kids to the full Waffle House experience."  You want your kids to grow up cultured, don't you?

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2 hours ago, texasdago said:

Only downside though is the drive from where we are staying to where we would stay in New Orleans is 11 1/2 hours.  That is with no stops.  I'll be pretty much beat by that point. I won't want to do anything.

Yeah, that would be a beatdown.  We've been to Rosemary Beach several times, and we've stayed with a friend in Breaux Bridge a night to break up the drive back, which is a pretty easy 6-hour drive if you don't get fucked by I-10 (a big "if").  Palm Beach is much further.  So no, New Orleans is unfortunately not the right answer.

I vote for Biloxi.

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We drove to Rosemary Beach and back last summer. Opted for New Orleans on the way there. Wanted to knock out more of the drive on the way home so we ate an early dinner in New Orleans then stayed in Lake Charles and hit the casino. If I did it over again I would just stay in NOLA both ways.

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7 hours ago, South Austin said:

Yeah, that would be a beatdown.  We've been to Rosemary Beach several times, and we've stayed with a friend in Breaux Bridge a night to break up the drive back, which is a pretty easy 6-hour drive if you don't get fucked by I-10 (a big "if").  Palm Beach is much further.  So no, New Orleans is unfortunately not the right answer.

I vote for Biloxi.

Reading about Bay St. Louis in Mississippi.  Sounds like it might be a good option.

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52 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Not sure I want to live in a world where people feel they’re too good for Motel 6 for a stop over. 

Sigh.  I see you've never traveled with my wife.  I learned EARLY in our relationship that she had standards as to the kind of places we could stop.

Whereas I am perfectly comfortable staying at dives with signs on the bathroom mirror saying "please do not clean fish or birds in sink."

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8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Sigh.  I see you've never traveled with my wife.  I learned EARLY in our relationship that she had standards as to the kind of places we could stop.

Whereas I am perfectly comfortable staying at dives with signs on the bathroom mirror saying "please do not clean fish or birds in sink."

Must be a girl thing. First thing my wife does in a stopover hotel is check for bedbugs. 

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20 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Sigh.  I see you've never traveled with my wife.  I learned EARLY in our relationship that she had standards as to the kind of places we could stop.

Whereas I am perfectly comfortable staying at dives with signs on the bathroom mirror saying "please do not clean fish or birds in sink."

When we were first married, we'd drive as far as possible and then stay at a Motel 6 or whatever.  Never made reservations for stops along the way.  Now everything is planned out way in advance and down and out motel rooms are never considered.

My favorite was in Flagstaff on the way to the North Rim for a week of camping.  I wanted the biggest neon signed motel on Route 66 - The Geronimo Motel fit the bill.  Retrofitted a/c unit blew right into a wall and didn't cool the room at all.  She was not impressed.

 

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If you're willing to increase the drive two hours you can skip 10 and go through Hattiesburg, Jackson, Vicksburg, Monroe, and Shreveport instead. We did that when I was in high school and it's one of the best drives in these United States to help you appreciate everything that you have in life. It wasn't a total loss though as we did mark off Southern Miss, LaTech, Jackson State, Grambling, and ULM on the "seen campus and stadium list" and Vicksburg National Military Park was actually worth visiting.

That wasn't even our worst detour. My dad is a bit of an excentric fellow and once drove us hours of the way to eat in Monroeville AL in the off chance that he could see Harper Lee out on the town. It was not a successful venture, but the Old Courthouse Museum was interesting.

 

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

There's a Pearl Hotel in Rosermary Beach . . . I wonder if it's the same owners?  Nice place.

Looks to be different.  Seems like they've done a nice job on this one - great reviews and the price is not too far off compared to some mid-range hotel closer to the interstate.  Area/town looks nice enough... I guess it took a beating from Katrina (https://www.clarionledger.com/picture-gallery/news/2015/08/22/bay-st-louis-from-katrina-to-today--gallery/32189699/)

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2 hours ago, Underdog said:

Not sure I want to live in a world where people feel they’re too good for Motel 6 for a stop over. 

Where do you think the Crab Festival was?

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1 hour ago, Underdog said:

Oh I can relate, no staying at a M6 is a stipulation from the wife during our travels and I don’t recall any bad experiences with them. 

My wife really didn't complain about motels until I pulled into the Travelodge in Memphis TX a few years back. Now everything must be planned, and she'll probably have something like, "Made us stay at the Travelodge In Memphis TX" on my gravestone lest the people forget my transgressions.

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39 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

My wife really didn't complain about motels until I pulled into the Travelodge in Memphis TX a few years back. Now everything must be planned, and she'll probably have something like, "Made us stay at the Travelodge In Memphis TX" on my gravestone lest the people forget my transgressions.

I had no idea my wife had a sister…

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1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

Where do you think the Crab Festival was?

It’s actually been at the Crab Fest grounds of the Our Lady of the Gulf (nonspecific as to Mexico or America) Catholic Church every year for the last 40 years

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