Road Tripping in the USA!

The Running Man said:
No just on a UK driving licence. It was about $250 dollars for 100 miles in the m4 and similar for 300 miles in the camaro so not terrible consider they were a 2018 and 1
2017 car respectively.
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You don't think $250 for 300 miles in a Camaro is terrible?!! You can rent one for days with unlimited mileage for less!!
 
snapdragon69 said:
I wanted the full USA experience and that included the car and the hat. We were visiting relatives rather than a roadtrip, but Suburban was very expensive at $1200 for 3 days, the Sentra was $227.
For $1200 I expected more.
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You got absolutely ripped off for $1200 for 3 days. That is absolutely insane. You should be looking to pay 40-70 quid a day depending on season for one of those. I'd be disappointed in any hire car that cost $400 a day even if it was a Porsche!!!

Why would you even have booked it at that rate?
 
uncle_rufus said:
doing Grand Canyon helicopter picnic thing one day,
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Don't do this. Helicopters are not allowed into the grand canyon so they don't go to the proper Canyon.

Also, Vegas is probably the most expensive place to fly too so as you are doing a loop fly into the cheapest place on your route which will probably be LA or San Francisco.
 
It's quite a long way from Vegas to the proper bit of the Canyon, most travel is via plane not helicopter. Check to make sure it's going to the South Rim and not the West Rim.
 
vila said:
No, they don't drive like a BMW or a Cadillac but you won't get a BMW or a Cadillac for that money
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This isn't true, I moved to renting Luxury class cars and it was always cheaper than a Mustang and Cadillac was the most common car I ended up with.
 
The whole route seems to duplicate quite a lot and you spend ages in San Fran. You've enough time to go quite a different way from LA to SF than via San Luis?
 
The Craig said:
San Luis is just a stop off. What would the alternate route be?
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Go up to Yosemite via Sequoia and then via Lone Pine. Opportunity to do Death Valley that way too.

Then come back down Highway 1 via Big Sur etc.

I still think 4 nights in San Fran and 4 nights in San Diego is overkill and means you'll miss the opportunity to see other stuff.
 
Rich_L said:
My main suggestions are for going south from LA, it's worth considering adding Palm Springs to break up the trip to San Diego.
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It's further to Palm Springs than it is to San Diego, this is like breaking up the drive from Cardiff to London by stopping off in Manchester :D
 
One way is going to be very difficult cross border like this. My advice would be to either:

a) one way from LA to Seattle, then one way something cheap and crap for one day into Vancouver
b) one way from LA to Seattle then fly train or bus cross border

I one wayed into Seattle from Vancouver and rented from there when I did it.
 
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