Californian trip

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silverfoxcc

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7,830 posts

152 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Hd to adjust my last hurrah trip, so have finalised on this, hopefully.

Spend a day in SFO doing the cable car/streetcar/trolleybus systems in full. Then to Sacramento for the rail museum.

This is the bit i need some gen on. From there would like to go and see the big trees ( best national park for these?) then across and do the big sur back to SFO and have a look in Carmel ( has anyone got Doris Days address????) ;-)
so how long would the driving times be doing that. and best stopping places. I notice that the cost of motels are astronomical these days according to Travel advisor over 100 dollars a night!!!

dsgrnmcm

404 posts

111 months

Wednesday 13th July 2016
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Hi Mate,

We are doing something similar in a few weeks. We used Air B&B as it was cheaper, but we are doing 2 and 3 night stays.

Apparently its cheaper to just pop in and get a room in the day...

chr15b

3,467 posts

197 months

Wednesday 13th July 2016
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We did a road trip in CA a couple of years ago. you could drive from SF to LA in a day with no real stopping so work from there based on where you want to visit and how long you want to visit for.

Other than a few nights in SF and a few in Vegas, we booked all our hotels as we arrived at places. it became like a ritual, pull into a town where we'd like to stay and find the closest place with free wifi to search on booking.com - will be honest, we got some great places cheap, and some not so great places.

silverfoxcc

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7,830 posts

152 months

Wednesday 13th July 2016
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dsgrnmcm,
That site really hits the spot. Having read of some horror stories re motels, cockroaches the size of cats, drug and body dealing outside your door, to live in someones house for the night really puts my mind at rest.
Thanks

silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

7,830 posts

152 months

Sunday 11th September 2016
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Have hit a slight problem with a bed for the night. The Airbnb site has come up trumps 100%
Situation is this flying from Washington DC to SFO and arriving at midnight, by the time i get the car organised it is going to be about one ish. Too late to rock up at a b+b and paying silly money for a few hours kips in a motel doesnt really appeal to my wallet. So would the hire company take a dim view if i stayed in their car park and got my head down for a few hours?

Edited by silverfoxcc on Monday 12th September 18:07