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What a trip to Lake George costs

A week in Lake George for eight people works out around $10,300 before flights — $306 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $81 per adult per day for food. From Atlanta, Chicago and New York it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

A resort village at the southern end of Lake George in the Adirondacks, known for steamboat cruises and a resort history going back to the Victorian era.

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What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$2,140	$2,270	$4,410	$1,100
8 people	$5,760	$4,540	$10,300	$1,290
12 people	$7,880	$6,800	$14,700	$1,220

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Lake George compares

Lake GeorgeLakes median of 5All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Lake George runs $211 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 28% below the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the 8th cheapest of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 10% below the typical lake ($235), the 2nd cheapest of 5 lakes.

The same week costs $795 more in July than in January on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
Driving beats four seats from Atlanta, Chicago and New York. The longest of those is Atlanta — 958 road miles and 15.6h each way, saving $212 against four seats.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in January, at $1,347 for the whole property — $2,142 for the same week in July.
The sharpest single step is between August and September: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $795.
The closest thing to it on price is Charleston, SC, a city: $10,335 for a week for eight against $10,301 here, $35 apart — the same money for a completely different trip.

When to go

Lake George is at its most expensive in July and cheapest in January — a 59% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$192
February	$192
March	$192
April	$192
May	$192
June	$192
July	$306
August	$306
September	$192
October	$192
November	$192
December	$192

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$417	4.6h	$1,456	15.6h2 days	driving
Chicago	$476*	4.3h	$1,242	13.4h2 days	driving
Dallas	$470	5.8h	$2,407	25.6h3 days	flying
Denver	$485	8.0h	$2,693	28.6h3 days	flying
Los Angeles	$563	9.8h	$4,119	43.7h5 days	flying
New York	$353	3.1h	$275	3.6h	driving
Seattle	$553	9.5h	$3,930	41.7h5 days	flying
Phoenix	$535	9.1h	$3,605	38.3h4 days	flying

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. * published DOT average for that airport pair. Others are modeled from distance. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,089 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.