Road Tripping in the USA!

It's still the same platform though, wonder what the lot attendant thought when you turned the Camaro down :p

In another note despite being very good in most other ways is ATS has a terrible engine note. It's probably best described as... Some noise. I know a 4 cylinder engine is never going to sound great but I honestly think my 530d sounds more pleasing..
 
One ways of any real distance will be charged punitively as the rental firms really hate them.

Consider linking a selection of circular trips with internal flights?
 
Are you forgetting your flights in that? Plus if you leave out the corvette you must include the cost of hiring something else.

Without food and gas It's a misleading number, everyone has to eat and it's not really possible to do an 11 day trip on a grand.
 
Why does the desk queue matter? With Alamo skip the counter you Go directly to the car without queuing or speaking to anyone?

The queue is a total non issue, check in online, fill out skip the counter and just walk right past it?
 
You then need to do a separate thing for skip the counter. Works really well, I just walked straight to the car.

Did you book a luxury then? What Did you get?
 
If you did actual skip the counter online it prints a counter bypass voucher and you go direct to the garage. It works at selected locations of which lax is one. I used this service 3 weeks ago at Boston.

If you didn't get a counter bypass coupon then you only did regular online check in, skip the counter is a second process you do after.
 
ramirez said:
I'm flying to JFK on the 27th for a two week north eastern holiday.

Whats the recomendations for a trip in that area? I'd like to go to washington, boston etc. I've done New York to death over the years so will probably just go there for new years eve.

Also whats everyones recommendations for corvette hire? I've done mustangs and camaros/ challengers already so it's going to have to be a vette this year.
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I've just come back from the North East, did Boston, New Hampshire, Vermont, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara and New York City. It was excellent, I thought it would be fairly dull but it really wasn't.

Bad move picking JFK though if you have no interest in New York - very expensive car rental there. My quotes there were 50% higher than renting in Boston.

Corvette is going to be hugely expensive to rent.
 
Just click 'show all' on the results page and you can see that way.

Not that I would suggest it's worth the huge amount of money it will cost, I found even a 280 bhp Cadillac frustrating enough, nowhere to really open it up as the speed limits even on the interstate in the North East are just ridiculous.

It's going to be what, well into 4 figures for a corvette.
 
shrek2 said:
HAs anyone here ever been to Maine? For some bizarre reason I have always wanted to go there. I'm already planning my trip for next September. I have 4 weeks so I think that should be enough to go coast to coast and back again.
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I went to Maine last month, very nice place.

I really wouldnt do Coast to Coast and back with 4 weeks. Everyone seems obsessed with that concept but other than being able to say 'yea i did coast to coast' I don't see what it brings to the table. It requires too much driving through the middle of nowhere for days and days, times you could spend looking at amazing places and doing great things.

With 4 weeks, pick a side and focus on it. I think 4 weeks is a good amount of time to nicely cover the following states:

California
Nevada
Arizona
Utah
Colorado
New Mexico

That would make a fantastic trip and you'd see some fantastic variety, too.
 
Just after Xmas is where I would expect to get the best deal on flights to LAX. Anything under £500 direct is a 'good deal' for that route.
 
That is good.

Infact its good enough that I would not expect further substantial discounts - you wont be finding it one for day for £350 or something.
 
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Good luck finding a rental company who won't palm you off with the worst car they can find for a one-way of that length :p

They'll know they will never, ever see it again and you might find they take advantage of that.

I still think you will end up missing out on things by insisting on doing these huge coast-to-coast runs in limited time periods (A month). By not focusing on key areas you end up swapping seeing great things for just.. driving to the next place. For example with a month if you were to do a loop from LA to LA you'd be able to cover a route like this:

LA > Yosemite > SF > Seattle > Glacier National Park, Montana > Yosemite > Utah > Colorado > New Mexico > Arizona > LA

You'd probably end up seeing a load more and saving a bundle on your rental car, too.

Then the year after you could fly into DC and do the other half you didn't do this time, again, with more time to spend actually seeing stuff rather than driving from one side to the other. Your planned route is well over 4000 miles which is a LOT for 4 weeks (Tip for route planning - once you've google mapped it, add 20% onto the distance figure. I've no idea why but every time I go we end up doing quite a lot more miles than the planned route suggests).
 
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I think you would get more out of starting and finishing in Seattle and going up to Vancouver then across the Rockies then down into glacier national park in Montana. That trip was incredible.
 
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