How to Find Cheap Hotels In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is a repository of rich history as the site of one of the most pivotal battles and subsequent presidential speeches in U.S. existence. Today, Gettysburg welcomes visitors who wish to educate themselves, celebrate the past and simply relax.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet access
• A desktop or laptop computer

Know Your Destination

1. Join the millions who have visited the Gettysburg National Military Park and surveyed the 40 miles of battlefield roads. Enter the memorial on foot, by bicycle or with a licensed Battlefield Guide to learn more about those three famous days.
2. Understand that Gettysburg Pennsylvania is seated in Adams County with many working farms, beautiful country churches and ice-cold creeks. Free self-guided tour brochures and maps are available from the Gettysburg Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Organize Transportation

3. Arrive by plane at Gettysburg via the Harrisburg International Airport, 38 miles to the north. From the airport, hop on Route 15 going south until you hit Route 30, which will take you to your cheap Gettysburg accommodations.
4. Drive or walk through Gettysburg as there are plenty of sites within walking distance of most cheap accommodations. A drive through the countryside's succulent fruit belt is more than worth the time and effort of bringing a car.

Choose Accommodations in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

5. To book accommodations, contact Gettysburg Visitors Center at [phone] or visit their Web site (see Resources below).
6. Book cheap accommodations in one of the many motels or bed and breakfast inns along or near York St. or Chambersburg St. in the center of town.
7. Visit an online travel Web site, search for Gettysburg lodging and sort your results by lowest price, to save time and money as you book your cheap accommodations.
8. Get an added historical experience by staying in a B&B where you can experience the style of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with modern accoutrements.
9. Save money on the sights of Gettysburg by inquiring about accommodations packages that include lodging cost and discounted attraction tickets.

Be Familiar with Local Information

10. Lose yourself in the Maize Maze on the Cherry-Crest Farm. The farm features a 5-acre cornfield maze constructed to confound the mind, along with other fun outdoor activities.
11. Wander through the Eisenhower National Historic Site, consisting of a home and farm used by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for weekend retreats and as a place to convene meetings with world leaders. Tour the house, grounds and the pastures where a herd of Eisenhower's Black Angus cattle graze.