Virginia Beach - Winter Vacationing
Most people think of visiting the beach during the summer; lounging under the sun, kids splashing and boogie-boarding in the waves, walking down the three-mile boardwalk…But did you know that Virginia Beach is a great place to visit during the winter?
Perhaps one of the best reasons to visit Virginia Beach during the winter is that you’ll find hotel and rental home room rates reduced significantly—most hotels knock down their prices by at least half. For example, at the Oceanfront Hilton, one of Virginia Beach’s newest and nicest hotels, you could stay over a weekend in July for about $349 at night. For those same equivalent nights during January (neither weekend surrounded a holiday), you can stay for about $129 a night. The Oceanfront Hilton has many rooms overlooking the beach, luxurious linens on their plush beds, beautifully tiled bathrooms evoking the beach theme, and an exquisite restaurant and bar downstairs that has become very popular with locals.
You may not work on your tan during the winter months in Virginia Beach, but that doesn’t mean the water can’t be a part of your trip! Your entire family will love whale watching. December through March is the perfect time to see fin and humpback whales from the safety of a whale watching boat in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Museum, some of these whales can reach up to 85 feet long and 70 tons in weight. What a spectacular sight no one could forget! The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Museum is one of the organizations who host whale watching tours, and although they cannot guarantee a sighting, they can guarantee that you will learn a lot about why whales travel along our coast and how the government is trying to protect whales.
After whale watching, you can drive down the road to the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Museum, an educational and fun way to warm your hands and ears. The aquarium holds more than 700,000 gallons of water, housing rare species of endangered sea turtles, a variety of large sharks, playful North American river otters, harbor seals, cownose rays (which you can touch!), and many more fish and ocean animals. The plentitude of educational games and activities will ensure that both adults and children come out smiling and have learned a lot.
If history interests you, you can spend a cold day inside the warm Francis Land House, a two hundred year-old plantation home. A guided tour, available six days per week, will teach you about each period room, furnished with both antiques and reproductions, and explain the kind of life people lived during the 18th and 19th centuries. Throughout the year, the Francis Land House hosts special events, such as the “War of 1812 Living History,” in which you can talk to soldiers and watch dramatizations to discover what life was like as a soldier during the war.
Virginia Tourists Guide - Virginia Beach, Virginia
Perhaps one of the best reasons to visit Virginia Beach during the winter is that you’ll find hotel and rental home room rates reduced significantly—most hotels knock down their prices by at least half. For example, at the Oceanfront Hilton, one of Virginia Beach’s newest and nicest hotels, you could stay over a weekend in July for about $349 at night. For those same equivalent nights during January (neither weekend surrounded a holiday), you can stay for about $129 a night. The Oceanfront Hilton has many rooms overlooking the beach, luxurious linens on their plush beds, beautifully tiled bathrooms evoking the beach theme, and an exquisite restaurant and bar downstairs that has become very popular with locals.
You may not work on your tan during the winter months in Virginia Beach, but that doesn’t mean the water can’t be a part of your trip! Your entire family will love whale watching. December through March is the perfect time to see fin and humpback whales from the safety of a whale watching boat in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Museum, some of these whales can reach up to 85 feet long and 70 tons in weight. What a spectacular sight no one could forget! The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Museum is one of the organizations who host whale watching tours, and although they cannot guarantee a sighting, they can guarantee that you will learn a lot about why whales travel along our coast and how the government is trying to protect whales.
After whale watching, you can drive down the road to the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Museum, an educational and fun way to warm your hands and ears. The aquarium holds more than 700,000 gallons of water, housing rare species of endangered sea turtles, a variety of large sharks, playful North American river otters, harbor seals, cownose rays (which you can touch!), and many more fish and ocean animals. The plentitude of educational games and activities will ensure that both adults and children come out smiling and have learned a lot.
If history interests you, you can spend a cold day inside the warm Francis Land House, a two hundred year-old plantation home. A guided tour, available six days per week, will teach you about each period room, furnished with both antiques and reproductions, and explain the kind of life people lived during the 18th and 19th centuries. Throughout the year, the Francis Land House hosts special events, such as the “War of 1812 Living History,” in which you can talk to soldiers and watch dramatizations to discover what life was like as a soldier during the war.
Virginia Tourists Guide - Virginia Beach, Virginia
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