Road Tripping in the USA!
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San Francisco was nuts price wise. We ended up staying about 15 miles down the road. Whilst this sounds terrible it was quite literally a 15 minute drive into the centre of San Francisco and parking on the street was free on Sunday's so it worked really well.
Good luck - in my experience almost everywhere has those window-mounted AC units which are particularly noisy. I share your frustration and tried hard to find hotels with proper ducted AC but they are few and far between.
Even new build properties still seem be fitted with them.
Why do you need that much data?
I bought a local SIM card this year when I went to Canada, it had 2Gb of data which was sufficient. Much of your usage in hotels etc will be on wifi.
Streaming audio and video?! Really? You'll find the signal levels patchy on longer road trips - it's a much bigger country than the UK and much much more sparsely populated. Listen to local radio, satellite radio and plug in a USB stick with your favourite road trip tunes. Driving across America watching netflix kinda defeats the object, no?
Data is incredibly useful for trip planning, working out where stuff is, etc etc but I used about 2Gb on 3 weeks in Canada so unlimited is both overkill and expensive.
That sounds excellent providing they don't use T-Mobile which is awful for data speeds.
Edit: IT sounds excellent because it's wrong. You need a Takeaway plan for inclusive roaming, which is £20 a month on pay monthly for 3Gb of data. It also has a 12 month contract so it's actually £240 a year.
Not £10.
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I had absolutely no issues with it and never have had which is odd given how many people moan. I wouldn't tolerate poor data and would have purchased a local sim had I found it poor.
I did, however, notice hat T-Mobile sucked so I always had AT&T manually selected. Perhaps this is the issue?
Take 84 from Palo Alto to the coast, then pick up Highway 1 there.
I urge you to fly from Florida to somewhere and then continue in a new car. The reasons for this:
a) One-way from Florida to Vegas is going to be extortionately expensive
b) Quite a lot of what you'll drive through on this route is going to be meh. You'll see much more by skipping these bits and focusing on the bits where it's proper good.
Perhaps fly from Orlando to Colorado and drive from there to Vegas? Giving you more time in the more beautiful and stunning parts.
To be fair to Avis they do make it very clear that Chrysler 300 Limited is the example car for Premium - I can understand why you'd have wanted to avoid one, because I did to, but the way to do so is to book the class above. I ended up with a Cadillac ATS from Vancouver which was excellent.
What you basically did here was booked and paid for a 300, received a 300, and then asked to be downgraded with no refund. Not sure why you'd do that?
The 300 is a better car than a Compass - only Jeep thats worth taking over it really is the Grand Cherokee which is excellent.
What you basically did here was booked and paid for a 300, received a 300, and then asked to be downgraded with no refund. Not sure why you'd do that?
The 300 is a better car than a Compass - only Jeep thats worth taking over it really is the Grand Cherokee which is excellent.
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And domestic US cars with turbocharged 4 cylinder engines. Ie the Cadillac ATS.