I plan to go to Shenandoah Valley on Easter Sunday. Any suggestion for reasonable accommodation? Thanks.

I'm not expert, but some of the lodges on skyline drive are open at that time

http://www.visitshenandoah.com/accommodations.htm

there is also a listing here
http://www.shenandoahconnection.com/accommodations.htm

but someone may have more experience

Thanks. I checked the first website. They said it is cold. Not too many people there. Well. Don't know how specular of this national park in spring. Welcome more comment.

I'm no expert at this. Have been there once or twice. Basically you have a number of choices in the park area.

One is to drive Skyline Drive (the lodges are off the drive). It is pretty and while it might be cold, that means there is less haze then later in the summer.

There are all sorts of trails to walk (including part of the appalachian trail) which goes through there. more about it is at. But you are likely to see deer and other animals if you even park and walk away from the road http://www.roadtripusa.com/appalachi.../virginia.html

it's been awhile since i did it but driving the whole skyline drive is like 5 or 6 hours as i remember it. but you can drive the part of it closest to washington and not the rest. It's like $10

Then there is the valley area which has state parks and also luray caverns. It's somewhat touristy, but the cavern is pretty spectacular. It's open on easter http://www.luraycaverns.com/

there are some hotels around luray (i believe it's the ramada), a lot of b&b's in the area, one grand hotel (the inn at little river) and charlottesville is nearby

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I just reserved the sky line resort inside the mountain. The luray caverns admasion fee is $17 per person. A little bit pricy. I went to Utah National carverns is just $7.00. Do you know where I can get some kind of discount ? Thanks.

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