9 nights in California

bex272 · 3 Mar 19, 11:12 AM

Due to schools and work we can only manage a 9 night trip in October. There are some really good prices for flights to LAX, we have been to LA a few years ago and didn’t love it but we were only there as a stopover so didn’t explore very far. Would you bother going to the west coast for such a short time and if so what would you do while there, our eldest is 10 and youngest is 6, we’d have a car and are happy to drive and move hotels but don’t want to spend the whole trip in the car. There is a possibility I could do in to lax and out of San Fran or vice versus but wasn’t sure if this would be too much in the time.

Thanks

Bex

Beth_Disney · 3 Mar 19, 11:22 AM

The shortest time that we’ve been is for 7 nights and that was due to school holidays too. We did 3 nights Anaheim and 4 nights more central LA.
I think with 9 nights I’d consider a twin centre between Anaheim and somewhere like Burbank spending extra time at Anaheim for Disney and possibly Knotts Berry Farm. You can land at LA and drive between the 2 places.
I personally don’t think 9 nights is enough time to comfortably do a SF to LA road trip and enjoy the journey down.

400ixl · 3 Mar 19, 12:27 PM

If that is all you can do, then maybe fly in and out of LAX and do San Diego and Anaheim.

bex272 · 3 Mar 19, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by 400ixl

If that is all you can do, then maybe fly in and out of LAX and do San Diego and Anaheim.

This was my thinking, maybe 2 nights Santa Monica, 3 nights Anaheim and 4 nights San Diego? We would like to visit Disney land but probably only a day in each park, maybe a 3rd day to do the bits we miss/like is this enough do you think? We want a bit of time just to relax

Bex

jdouds · 3 Mar 19, 03:01 PM

9 nights easy to do a coast trip depending on where you fly to and from. 2/3 nights San Fran , 2 nights Monterey , 1 n Santa Barbara and rest for your Disney fix.

StorybookCircus · 3 Mar 19, 03:05 PM

This is exactly what we’re doing in April- I’ve just posted my itinerary in another thread but we’re doing 5 days at Disney, a day at Knotts and an organised tour of LA. We’re planning on taking it easy on travel days and the day after we arrive. I was initially wary of travelling for 10+ hours for less than a fortnight’s holiday but if we’d stayed longer we would have had to move to another city or run out of things to do! Neither of us wanted to drive either. I think you’ll have a great time!

marypoppins38 · 4 Mar 19, 02:02 PM

We have done this for 8 nights in October before now. We spent the whole time in San Diego and had an amazing time.

400ixl · 4 Mar 19, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by bex272

This was my thinking, maybe 2 nights Santa Monica, 3 nights Anaheim and 4 nights San Diego? We would like to visit Disney land but probably only a day in each park, maybe a 3rd day to do the bits we miss/like is this enough do you think? We want a bit of time just to relax

Bex

3 Anaheim and 4 San Diego makes sense. Santa Monica makes sense if you plan to do a day on the coast and then a day doing other sights like Hollywood, throwing in maybe Warner Bros Studio Tour into that day. If its more Hollywood, Universal, Warner Bros, then I'd stay that side over in somewhere like Burbank.

For those number of nights I wouldn't do the San Fran and PCH side personally, I'd keep that for another time, you can more than fill the time doing SoCal and avoiding long drives.

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400ixl Imagineer Join Date: Mar 12	If that is all you can do, then maybe fly in and out of LAX and do San Diego and Anaheim.

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marypoppins38 Imagineer Join Date: Mar 10	We have done this for 8 nights in October before now. We spent the whole time in San Diego and had an amazing time.