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Just booked a holiday for myself, the wife, and 2 daughters to California (Los Angeles, Anaheim, Sequoia national park, San Francisco, and a few stops along highway 1 from SF to LA), Nevada (Las Vegas) & Arizona (Grand Canyon) in April.

 

its going to be the first time in USA for us.

 

who's been? any tips? (pun intended). favourite spots? any other advice?

 

cheers

 

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Have done most of those places on a road trip also. Get a Lonely Planet guide to USA or California, they are worth their weight in gold.

 

If you can in LA/SF, park the car somewhere outside of the city and use public transport to get around, its pretty decent in SF, LA is ok.

 

Check out Yosemite if you can. Awesome NP. Also Death Valley NP is really cool too.

 

Camp in National Parks. The Americans know how to organise camping at those places. Its usually $15-25/night and you can BBQ all of your meals if you are that way inclined. Some NPs also have restaurants and stuff too. Its a really good way to see the NPs. April is outside of summer holidays too, so hopefully plenty of stuff that isn't crowded.

 

Good luck!

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yep April seems to be a good time in California- Winter is over & Spring is well established. not too hot in the deserts yet either.

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Fair Jelly over here scotty as it's on my list of holiday destinations also and have been looking into it with a decent degree of intent. I work with a good bloke who done it only three years ago and first hand experience says the Grand Canyon via chopper is worth every cent ( aprox $150 US PP ) 

 

Super car Driving days in Las Vegas at the speedway park is a must do and realistic at $395 PP for a full day and a multitude of cars to drive including meals

 

yellowstone park is a must do ( apparently ) 

 

tips are, as always cash is king and a haggle works very well, Guided tours are worth the money and not typical boring BS 

LA is expensive for no apparent reason but just is 

SF's GGB is not to be missed and don't even think of walking anywhere around there as it's stupid steep but I think most of us know that 

 

Have Fun buddy :) 

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Grand Canyon from Vegas is my pick. We (myself and fiance) did the chopper flight out of Boulder airport and it was pretty pricey, but totally worth it. I think it was around US$800-1000 (for two people) for front of the chopper seats. We had a flight to the canyon, lunch in the canyon as well as flying back to Boulder airport. Totally worth it. If you don't need lunch and just want the scenic flight I think it's still worth it and really good.

 

Yellowstone is up north in Wyoming, easily over a days drive from anywhere you are going. Definitely worth checking out too (also been there). Jet might be referring to Yosemite? Like I said, that is really awesome too.

 

In SF, jump on one of the tour buses that rolls around town in a circle all day. It will also cross the bridge and you see all the cool stuff. Its a must do, but might be a bit cold if its still Spring time.

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3 hours ago, ML24 said:

Get a Lonely Planet guide to USA or California, they are worth their weight in gold.

Check out Yosemite if you can. Awesome NP.

 

^^what he said^^

 

Yosemite national park is only 3 hours drive from San Francisco.

what sort of car/camper are you going to hire?

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Definitely on the bucket list.

My partners friends went last year and are going back again this year.

Love my motocross and NBA.

I had looked at timing a holiday to coincide with the AMA motocross season.

Drool drool drool panda.

You'll have a blast going by the stories that I heard about the states...

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April, perfect for MotoGP. I was thinking of going this year but it may be next.  Hiring a convertable mustang and driving everywhere. Probably stay 6 - 8 weeks.

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its all set in stone- 

here's the itinerary:

fly into LAX

night 1,2,3: Los angeles (hollywood)

night 4,5,6: anaheim (disneyland)

then picking up a nissan maxima (premium car)

night 7,8,9: Las Vegas

night 10,11,12: Grand canyon

night 13,14: Sequoia national park

night 15: barstow (just a break to shorten the drive)

night 16,17,18: San Francisco (dropping the car off when we get o SF)

then picking up a Cadillac xts (luxury car)

night 19: driving highway 1 along coast- Big Sur- to Monterey 

night 20: Pismo Beach

night 21: Santa Monica

then flying out from LAX

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Its only 2 of us. And maybe buy clothes when I need them.... I budgeted 4 -5K a week.

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