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if you don't want to stay on the strip, we liked staying at the Tahiti Village Resort, they do run a shuttle to the strip, but you are away from the madness. We like to stop at Calico when driving from LA to Vegas.

As for tickets, we get Disney direct from Disney, Universal and Knotts are normally either with the GO LA Card or this year we have go the California Explorer pass, which means we can do 5 theme parks (we are starting in San Francisco and driving down)