Help with California planning

[Colette-S]

Originally Posted by coggie

How about the champagne...was that expensive

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No, drank it by the crate 🥂🍾🤣

[coggie]

Originally Posted by Colette-S

No, drank it by the crate 🥂🍾🤣

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By the crate...what did you do with the bottles once empty

[jo21977]

Originally Posted by jdouds

Hi we have done 2 west west coast trips in this last 3 years and have used airbnb and HomeAway for most off our accommodation. It does feel a bit of a waist to go all that way and spend most of the time in LA area, appreciate you have done some other areas but worth considering a few more

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You have a good point! I’m more than open to suggestions at the moment. We always thought we wouldn’t go back to Disneyland but being so close and missing out on Orlando we all want to go again 😄
However, dd also wants to see more or Beverly Hills etc.. as we did a tour last time which covered a good overview but not much detail. Personally I wasn’t a huge fan of Hollywood area but I’m trying to avoid zig zagging across L.A. given the nightmare traffic!

[jdouds]

Hi again what have you actually done in the past and perhaps we can all give other possibilities.

[jo21977]

Originally Posted by jdouds

Hi again what have you actually done in the past and perhaps we can all give other possibilities.

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Last trip was San Francisco/Monterey/Burbank/Anaheim/Palm Springs/Grand Canyon/ Las Vegas.

It was a very long 16 nts and we felt like we saw loads but needed a rest when we got home! So we’ve done universal/Disney/Warner brothers/Hollywood blvd, pretty much all the touristy things 😃

[jdouds]

Ah you have done a fair amount, have you considered any of the national parks. We thought yosemite was fantastic and would highly recommend although a long way from where you have planned most of your stay. Well 4.5 hours for us not long but we don't mind driving

[jo21977]

Originally Posted by jdouds

Ah you have done a fair amount, have you considered any of the national parks. We thought yosemite was fantastic and would highly recommend although a long way from where you have planned most of your stay. Well 4.5 hours for us not long but we don't mind driving

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Yes that was our dilemma! As we're not doing the San Francisco side this time I didn't feel we could do Yosemite justice in a couple of days and were keen to avoid the huge drives like the last trip.

We have now booked our hotels as the BA sale was a lot cheaper than direct and came in around £125 per night! Slightly rearranged the itinerary:

San Diego/Palm Desert/Anaheim/Burbank means we can do San Diego Zoo, possible day trip to Mexico (thoughts?), aerial tramway in Palm Springs, Malibu and Disneyland of course

Hopefully some downtime by the pool too this time!