For Philly Hotels check out the hotel packages.
I.E. Marriott for a Saturday night with 4 zoo passes and parking Memorial Weekend is 180$ for Philly Zoo.
We have a room booked there currently but are most likely canceling and spending another night at Ronald McDonald House in Philly because we will be there from Thursday and Friday nights already because Jack has his surgery and gets discharged Saturday.
Also that is what we did in Boston, booked a room through the Aquarium website, which was awesome because the line for tickets was over an hour in the cold and we walked right in with our tickets from hotel. We did the Boston Children's Museum and LOVED it. We are doing the Philly one when we go down for surgery also, we get in free with my membership to POK's CM now.
Re: Melanie2003
i looked into some of those but most have you staying 2-3 nights and we need just 1. or they include other activities we're not interested in.
we plan to leave on saturday after a photo shoot in the morning, so i don't think we'd get to the philly or south jersey until 3 or so. we wanted a hotel with a pool so we could do that and then have dinner or dinner and then pool, whatever. then sunday morning, we'd go the museum and drive home that night.
we could probably do the entire thing in a day, but i think we need to get more comfortable traveling with the girls. We haven't had any great travel experiences with Ava, so they become to far apart because we remember how much "fun" it was - i think we all need some practice and i thought a short trip like this would work.
thanks for the idea.