Hotels East of Columbus - Saturday Night

by Stately NOVA Lion on Oct 22, 2008 1:10 PM EDT

This will be my first Columbus experience. Pops and I just purchased the tickets this past Monday. After the game on Saturday, we will be traveling East towards our home in the DC area, but would like to stop maybe an hour or two after we have left the parking lot.

My question, for all those experienced Columbus travelers, is how far will we have to travel East, in order to avoid the football crowd?

Zanesville? Cambridge?

Please help...thanks.

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The problem isn’t avoiding the football crowd. It’s finding a town to stop in – east of Columbus is a whole lot of nothing for a loong distance. Unless you’re talking about the hour it will take to get out of Columbus (which it will).

If you’re coming from DC, you’re probably coming in via I-70. Which means on the way back, you’re going to be stopping in Zanesville, which is about an hour-ish.

by Bleed Blue 'n White on Oct 22, 2008 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

ok.....

i was looking at a map and that makes sense to me. and it does look like the only real town heading east on i-70.

by Stately NOVA Lion on Oct 22, 2008 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions

If your limit is 2 hours, it’s your only option. Wheeling’s not much farther (about a half-hour) but it takes 30-45 minutes to get out of Columbus.

Also, for reference, gas prices in Columbus are Screwed Up. Get gas before arriving in the city – gas prices in the city vary as much as $0.50 – $1.00/gallon compared to outside the city. It’s really weird. If you look at long-term graphs of gas prices in Columbus, there’s this weird $0.20/gal jumpiness every week.

Literally, there will be gas stations less than a mile from each other than vary by more than $0.20/gal. Like I said, just get gas outside the city.

by Bleed Blue 'n White on Oct 22, 2008 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions

thanks for the heads up B&W.

by Stately NOVA Lion on Oct 23, 2008 8:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Why not stay over night in State College....

It’s about 1/2 way home to DC and the rooms on a non-football weekend are only about $70 to stay downtown….and you can be a part of the mayhem on Beaver Ave after we beat the nuts!

I bleed Blue and White.

by Horse N Buggy on Oct 22, 2008 2:06 PM EDT reply actions

would love to....

but i don’t see myself able to drive even more than two hours after the game.

saturday is going to be fun.

by Stately NOVA Lion on Oct 22, 2008 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions

State College is halfway home to DC in some sort of bizarre definition of “half.” It’s 6 hours from Columbus to State College, and 6 hours from Columbus to DC.

by Bleed Blue 'n White on Oct 22, 2008 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions

yes but

time spent in State College is like a rejuvination machine, so you actually make up time while there.

by The JuggerNitt on Oct 23, 2008 7:56 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm in Columbus

and east of columbus, you may be able to find hotels in towns called Reynoldsburg (43068), Pickerington(43147), Pataskala(43062), Whitehall(43213)…I’m not sure how crazy hotels get here in comparison to State College.

in regards to the gas prices, i found that gas prices are now cheaper here than in PA. prices range from $2.50 to $2.70.

by amandakt on Oct 23, 2008 9:25 AM EDT reply actions

In the 2 years I lived in Columbus, no one could explain the gas prices to me, and they’re still incredibly weird. The gas prices right now range from $2.20 (yes, $2.20, at the Sam’s on Sawmill up by Bethel Rd.), to over $3.20 (about a mile or two west of the stadium, at Lane and Northwest Blvd in Upper Arlington).

These two places are about 5 minutes from each other, and gas prices are one dollar/gallon different. That makes zero sense. The only possibility is that gas stations there love gouging customers heavily based on the traffic.

Which is why I recommend, very strongly, to get gas outside the city. You don’t want to be driving around saying “we need gas, OK, we’ll stop here” and suddenly it’s a buck more per gallon.

by Bleed Blue 'n White on Oct 23, 2008 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions

i heard

this morning on the radio gas was $220 at sawmill…i haven’t seen $3 anywhere, but i doubt those ppl are making any money…i try to stay away from the campus area as much as possible. understandably of course. it was $2.30 by my place this morning and i’m fine w/ that.

east of cbus, on 70. there is this one exit that is always 10cents cheaper than the cheapest place in town, the exit after pataskala i think, but i forget exactly the name of the exit. that’s the best place to get gas for travelers coming from the east. from the north, on 71, it’s exit 186, that place is usually a good 20 cents cheaper than the average here.

but hey, we’re still cheaper than PA at our most expensive!!!

by amandakt on Oct 24, 2008 9:26 AM EDT reply actions