Best trip order for August

[Bellasmummy]

We’ve decided to visit the West Coast again next August and I’m trying to sort a rough itinerary so that I’m ready to book reward flights.

We want to include San Diego, Anaheim and Hollywood wrapped around a week in Hawaii.

We’ll be looking at 18 days at the very end of our school summer holidays. Going around 16th August returning around 3rd September.

I’m not sure if it would be better to do San Diego first and finish with Disneyland and Universal or vice versa.

Labor Day is 4th September, would that make the parks very busy for the preceding weekend? Would mid august likely have lower crowds at all?

Ideally I’ll book flights for LAX and San Diego so need to decide which we want first before I settle dates and hotels.

[megaflyer]

Labour weekend (Friday through Monday) is busy especially the roads around LA as Fridays night they clamour to get out to Vegas, Palm Springs, San Diego and reverse Monday afternoon - I have been once at Disney during this period and it was ok - I think the locals were either out of town or spending $ at the Labour weekend sales but the traffic is truly horrendous - other times I just relax in Palm Springs until the Tuesday

Only you can gauge what will work best for you - me I do LA first then relax in Palm Springs after trying it the other way round I refer this for me but everyone is different

[Bellasmummy]

Originally Posted by megaflyer

Labour weekend (Friday through Monday) is busy especially the roads around LA as Fridays night they clamour to get out to Vegas, Palm Springs, San Diego and reverse Monday afternoon - I have been once at Disney during this period and it was ok - I think the locals were either out of town or spending $ at the Labour weekend sales but the traffic is truly horrendous - other times I just relax in Palm Springs until the Tuesday

Only you can gauge what will work best for you - me I do LA first then relax in Palm Springs after trying it the other way round I refer this for me but everyone is different

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Thanks, I think we might be better having San Diego at the end then. We’d be moving between Anaheim and Hollywood on the Thursday/Friday so wouldn’t want to spend all our time in traffic.

San Diego plans won’t be so busy so we can keep the holiday weekend for relaxing on the beach.

[megaflyer]

Originally Posted by Bellasmummy

Thanks, I think we might be better having San Diego at the end then. We’d be moving between Anaheim and Hollywood on the Thursday/Friday so wouldn’t want to spend all our time in traffic.

San Diego plans won’t be so busy so we can keep the holiday weekend for relaxing on the beach.

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Sounds pretty darn perfect to me

[landandword17]

We did SF > Hawaii > San Diego and would do that again. San Diego is very laid back, relaxing and not a go-go-go city break. San Diego also got very quiet after Labour Day in 2019. We were there Sat-Wed and our hotel went from being so full at breakfast you couldn’t even see the buffet so having the whole patio to ourselves on Tuesday/Wednesday.