We are planning to take a Road Trip next summer. Maybe it's my attempt to recreate my childhood....we didn't fly from Michigan to Florida for summer vacations...we drove. (more on that in another post)
To see if our crew is ready for a multi-location vacation, we went to Tennessee for our family vacation. Two days in Chattanooga and Three days in Gatlinburg.
Chattanooga was a ton of fun. We have never done the Lookout Mountain/Incline Railroad/See Rock City/Ruby Falls tour so that was our main stop. The afternoon we arrived, we toured the Children's Museum. So fun..it always amazes me...these cities, so much smaller than Atlanta with much better Children's museums. My favorite part was the free part (of course) a platform in front of the building where you can (attempt) to stand inside of a giant bubble.
We spent the second day at the Incline Railway, Ruby Falls and Rock City. It was really worth the trip. We could have spent another few days in Chattanooga and still not seen everything on our list.
The hotel was a bit disappointing. The place was clean and convenient, but the service wasn't great. I shouldn't have been surprised considering when (1) I asked about the weather, I got a blank stare from the front desk personnel or (2) when they charged us 50 cents per call to room service or (3) when Housekeeping didn't clean up my coffee stirrer that I left on a half used package of Sweet-Low. Yes, I could have put it in the trash myself...but we are playing $175/night...I don't have to clean up after myself if I don't want to.
The Girl just kept saying "The service just isn't that good". Okay, she's 8...what is her basis for this observation? Surely my housekeeping isn't the baseline...comparatively everything else is immaculate.
My kids are used to nice places...yes we've created two monsters. For example:
- When The Girl was 4, we visited a hotel. When we entered the room, she plopped herself in the middle of the king-sized bed and asked, "Where are the servants?"
- Two years ago on vacation in Chicago my daughter said "This is so exciting! This will be the first time [the boy] is having room service. " He was was two at the time...apparently he had lived a deprived life up until that point.
Next stop, Gatlinburg:
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