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What a trip to Savannah costs

A week in Savannah for eight people works out around $7,500 before flights — $175 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $75 per adult per day for food. From Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

A historic Georgia port city known for live oaks hung with Spanish moss and for a historic district laid out around a grid of park squares, 22 of which survive.

with children okadults-only trip goodstroller / limited mobility ok

What a week costs

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

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$1,220	$2,100	$3,320	$831
8 people	$3,300	$4,200	$7,500	$937
12 people	$4,510	$6,300	$10,800	$901

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 Savannah compares

SavannahLowcountry median of 4Cities median of 7All 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, Savannah runs $181 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 39% below the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the 2nd cheapest of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 7% below the typical city ($195), the 2nd cheapest of 7 cities.

Cities are generally cheapest in June, but the low here falls in January.
The same week costs $242 more in March than in January on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
It is at its most expensive in March and cheapest in January — the opposite of the library as a whole, which peaks in July. Advice about avoiding summer prices is the wrong way round here.
Within Lowcountry (4 destinations here), it is 30% below the regional median of $257 a night.
Driving beats four seats from Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. The longest of those is Dallas — 1,034 road miles and 16.8h each way, saving $524 against four seats.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in January, at $1,225 for the whole property — $1,467 for the same week in March.
The sharpest single step is between April and May: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $242.
The closest thing to it on price is Orlando, FL, another city: $7,327 for a week for eight against $7,497 here, 2% apart.

When to go

Savannah is at its most expensive in March and cheapest in January — a 20% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$175
February	$175
March	$210
April	$210
May	$175
June	$175
July	$175
August	$175
September	$175
October	$175
November	$175
December	$175

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	$359	3.3h	$397	5.0h	driving
Chicago	$488*	4.4h	$1,328	14.3h2 days	driving
Dallas	$524*	4.8h	$1,572	16.8h2 days	driving
Denver	$468	5.8h	$2,372	25.2h3 days	flying
Los Angeles	$534	9.1h	$3,593	38.1h4 days	flying
New York	$308*	4.3h	$1,236	13.4h2 days	flying
Seattle	$556	9.6h	$3,997	42.4h5 days	flying
Phoenix	$502	8.3h	$2,992	31.8h4 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.