For all the fans who have attended races do you normally stay at a motel/hotel or camp on the grounds? Which do you prefer if having done both?
We stayed in a motel at Texas and camped at Talladega. I much prefer camping on the grounds versus motel. main reason being: when the races is over you can walk right back to your camp site and not have to fight the traffic. The atmosphere is so much more fun and exciting as well. At Texas the traffic was horrible. It took us about 4 hours to drive the 25 miles to our rooms. This is not counting the hours we were lost on the loops in dallas.
Very good post and question there, degafan! I am interested in watching this thread and maybe gaining some information for myself. So hopefully, our members will tell us how they do a race!
4 hours to get 25 miles to your room, that is terrible, and not something I would want to do, either! Unreal!.
I am kinda-sorta planning to attend my very first race this coming season. I am really leaning towards the spring race in Atlanta (3-18-07), since it is within driving distance and one of my favorite tracks. Never having gone to a race before, I am not very sure of what I am planning at all. ~LOL~ I was thinking of buying a race package where basically you just show up and stuff like tickets/lodging/transportation to and from the track is already taken care of. I would love to avoid a 4 hour trip to the room, that you had to endure. Ideally, my hearts desire would be to rent an RV already set up in the infield. How cool would that be!!! My bones are getting older and I am not sure that I can take 3 days in a tent, like I use to. I am planning to kinda-sorta go big, by my standards.~LOL~ I am ball-parking $1,000 for a weekend for 3, my son, grandson and me. (This $1,000 would not include souvenir $$$. ~LOL~ It is also our birthdays month.<3)Do you think I can do this, degafan?
Anyone else who has any suggestions, opinions, or ideas, please jump in here and help mrsmopar out! I truly feel that we all can profit from this info, I know that ALL of our members are all interested in going to the races, too!
So I am very interested, indeed, to see what our members have to say in response to your thread! Thanks for the great subject!
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Very good post and question there, degafan! I am interested in watching this thread and maybe gaining some information for myself. So hopefully, our members will tell us how they do a race!
4 hours to get 25 miles to your room, that is terrible, and not something I would want to do, either! Unreal!.
I am kinda-sorta planning to attend my very first race this coming season. I am really leaning towards the spring race in Atlanta (3-18-07), since it is within driving distance and one of my favorite tracks. Never having gone to a race before, I am not very sure of what I am planning at all. ~LOL~ I was thinking of buying a race package where basically you just show up and stuff like tickets/lodging/transportation to and from the track is already taken care of. I would love to avoid a 4 hour trip to the room, that you had to endure. Ideally, my hearts desire would be to rent an RV already set up in the infield. How cool would that be!!! My bones are getting older and I am not sure that I can take 3 days in a tent, like I use to. I am planning to kinda-sorta go big, by my standards.~LOL~ I am ball-parking $1,000 for a weekend for 3, my son, grandson and me. (This $1,000 would not include souvenir $$$. ~LOL~ It is also our birthdays month.<3)Do you think I can do this, degafan?
Anyone else who has any suggestions, opinions, or ideas, please jump in here and help mrsmopar out! I truly feel that we all can profit from this info, I know that ALL of our members are all interested in going to the races, too!
So I am very interested, indeed, to see what our members have to say in response to your thread! Thanks for the great subject!
I think the amount you are considering taking would cover it all. As you said "except for souveniers" anyway. We never take enough for that. When we went to Texas this past April I booked the motel in advance (of course) and it ran me for 4 days, 3 nights, somewhere in the neighborhood of $450.00, we spent about $200.00 for food. We bought lunch meat and stuff to take to the track like this to save us some bucks. The price of the food trackside is horrible. You will spend a bundle there if not careful. We also flew down and the cost for 4 of us was somewhere around $400.00. Rented a car and that cost us $200.00 Our tickets there were $600.00
It is much cheaper for dega. But as said we camp out for 3 or 4 days. but let me tell you we have some of the conveniences of home. We bought a big air mattress for sleeping and stack them two high. we also have a heater and a fan for days. coleman cookstoves and all the other basic camping needs. then the only money we are out is for souveniers, gas to get there, we always take our food and drinks. it costs much less and to me is quite honestly a lot more fun. you can absorb the atmosphere of all the fans and get to know some people for life. with us we have the same seats year to year and so we see pretty well the same people and made some very good friends this way. we are however hoping next year before going that instead of staying in the free camping area we are going to get in the reserved. only because we are taking our teenage daughter and she doesn't need to be in the free section. much more partying and things like this going on. dont' want to subject her to this yet. maybe later on. haha.
i do want to mention that if you buy a travel package that I would think that unless your motel is very close to the track that your transporation is still going to have just as long a trip getting there as we did. might be something to check into before booking it. i know we could have rode public transportation in texas but opted out since you had to be there at a certain time mornings and evenings to catch it. we didn't want to be on any certain set schedule.
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Thank you once again degafan, more valuable and useful information there! I have learned more from your 2 posts here than any where else. I do hope that our members will start to discuss this info here, too! Thanks again!
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Thank you once again degafan, more valuable and useful information there! I have learned more from your 2 posts here than any where else. I do hope that our members will start to discuss this info here, too! Thanks again!
Your welcome. I wish others would post as well.
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Hi, Jamie from UK here... have posted a couple of times before... but now can help out.. I've just come back from Phoenix, where we hired a camper and took it to the track... best thing ever... the campground was great, and atmosphere very friendly, though many of our neighbours couldn't believe I had travelled all the way from the UK to 'just watch NASCAR'...
Hired the camper from cruise america, for $600 dollars though we did have it for 5 days... campground cost $40, so both sensible money and very easy to do. meant we could walk to track at any time, have a drink in the bar, listen to the live bands etc. Food and beers for the week cost $75 plus cost of tickets, but whether you camp or stay in hotel you've got this to pay.
We turned up on the Thursday, so got to see the races on Thursday night, Friday night, Qualy and practice on Saturday, Busch and Nextel....
It was the little extras which proved more difficult... flying in from the UK, meant we didn't have a BBQ, etc so had to buy one, and then just donate it to our neighbours when we left. Party atmosphere was great.
As for racing, that was good too!...
Already planning another trip in 2007, though will pick an eastern state, as travel time to Phoenix with connections was 15 hours.
Thank you so much for posting! I was thinking about you last weekend with the Phoenix race and all. Very, very glad that you had a good time and thanks so much for the information.
~LOL~ Most people don't fly "across the big pond" (Atlantic Ocean) for a race, so I do bet that you had some fun conversations about that alone! I am pleased to hear that your first Nascar experience was such a good one.
Please do keep in touch with us and let us know how the wedding goes! Also about which race you decide on for 2007. For me, it will be Atlanta in the spring and that will also be my first race. Once again, thanks for remembering us and we look forward to talking with you again!
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hey,i like camping at the track becouse its just more fun.the people u meet friends u make from all over the country.weather u r a 24 fan 88 fan or a 8 fan everybody gets along well (just find out where they have the partys on friday night and saturday night they get kinda loud)
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I am interested in watching this thread and maybe gaining some information for myself. So hopefully, our members will tell us how they do a race!
Ideally, my hearts desire would be to rent an RV already set up in the infield. How cool would that be!!!
My bones are getting older and I am not sure that I can take 3 days in a tent, like I use to.
I am planning to kinda-sorta go big, by my standards.~LOL~ I am ball-parking $1,000 for a weekend for 3, my son, grandson and me. (This $1,000 would not include souvenir $$$. ~LOL~ It is also our birthdays month.<3)Do you think I can do this, degafan?
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