Sandusky, Ohio

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:00:00 -0400

It would be hard to call this review objective. We were pretty lazy while in Sandusky and didn’t do much at all. Therefore we didn’t truly evaluate the whole town thoroughly. That said, we had a good time in our own way here.

Sandusky most certainly has to be considered a tourist town. Simply walking though the Wal-mart parking lot shows you that more people in the walmart were from out of state than from Ohio even. Thus any reported dynamic certainly could change from week to week or even day to day. One group of tourists might be horrible while another one might be great. So we can’t really comment on the people (though all of the tourists seemed pretty normal and nice overall as people on vacation typically are).

Cedar Point Water Tower

There were numerous dining options that we never seemed to make it to. Several very nice French restaurants that would have snubbed their nose at our toddler, so our week’s dining consisted of Chipotle and other chains on the strip of what appears to be brand new or mostly new shops. This wasn’t a bad thing after Tionesta we were happy to see some kind of civilization.

The entire town seems to be shaped like a cone, all emanating from Cedar Point itself. This particular design is pretty cool actually and because of the way it was setup we encountered no traffic our entire time there. This may not be strictly fair because we haven’t enountered traffic that even resembles the east coast since we left and we couldn’t be happier about that.

Tionesta, PA

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:00:00 -0400

Tionesta, PA is an extremely rural town located in northwestern, PA. It achieved tourism destination status when the Army Corps of Engineers installed a dam for the purposes of flood control. The resulting lake became a place people from the surrounding areas came to boat, fish and canoe. The Corps of Engineers campground, while rather nice, is a stark disconnect from the rest of the town. While basically very friendly, the town had a bit of a “dying” feel to it. There was only a couple restaurants and they were not exactly super high caliber. The town laundromat looked like something out of the (early) 80’s. The one grocery store had extremely limited food options.

Tionesta Lake

For us the place just wasn’t very friendly. AT&T cell phone service worked fine but the data was slow to the point of being unusable. A call to order pizza from the Seldom Inn on a thursday evening resulted in us being told there was a 1.5 hour wait. It took days to reach the people renting boats to go out on the lake (who for some reason had 3 different phone numbers listed) and there were probably other issues I don’t remember.

The bottom line is come to Tionesta for a decent lake experience, but there is better out there. Much better.

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