10 day trip from dec 20th-31st
 

i am planning to visit the above with my wife and 13 yr old daughter from december 20-31st.
I would like to see SFO, yosemite, vegas,grand canyon and LA.
I will fly into SFO and fly out of LA.
Is this too rushed? in case i do not wish to drive can someone suggest possible route plan.
I look forward to any suggestions on hotels or some place highly recommended.
how will it be over xmas and new year

Much too rushed. Id fly into SFO and out of LA, skipping Vegas and the Grand Canyon. Do a couple of days in SF, drive down the coast and then a couple of days in LA.

The only way I can see cramming all this into ten days is to take a day-tour flight from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon.

Also, in going to Yosemite, you won't be able to take one of the most scenic drives in the US: Highway 1 from Monterey to Moro Bay.

Also, if this is what you want to do, I don't know of any way to do it without a car.

The routing would be San Francisco, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon (by air day tour), Los Angeles.

This general routing is more suitable for ten days: San Francisco, Monterey, Big Sur, Cambria, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Moro Bay, Los Angeles.

Las Vegas is 4- to 5-hour drive from Los Angeles, and there are many flights daily. Room rates there are at their highest during the holiday period.

You probably figure you'd drive from Yosemite to Las Vegas - right? Well, in Dec the only way you can manage that is to drive back west into the central Valley, south to Bakersfield and across to LV. This drive is looooong, dreadfully ugly/boring, and often dangerously foggy in winter. Not really something one would do by choice.

10 days is not long enough for everything you want.

One option:

• SF 2 days/nights

• Yosemite 2 days/1 night (but you'd need to book as far ahead as possible - that is a VERY popular time Yosemite.

• Back across the state to the mid coast around Monterey 1 day/1 night

• Looooong drive to LA 3 nights/2 days in LA

• Drive to LV 2 night/2 days w/ a day tip by bus or helicopter to the GC

• fly home from Vegas.

But I sure wouldn't do it . . . . way toomuch in way too little time.

"<i>in case i do not wish to drive can someone suggest possible route plan.</i>"

It would be next to impossible to do this by public transport. But if you really want to try - fly to SF for 3 nights, take a day trip to Yosemite (this is a looooong day trip by bus or train and bus and you only get about 5 hours in Yosemite). Fly SFO to LA. Fly LA to LV. Do a day bus trip to the GC. Fly home from LV. -- OR -- in reverse Fly SFO to LV, Fly LV to LA, Fly home from LA

What you REALLY want to do is cut a couple of places or add 3 or 4 days.

thanks for the input. if i skip SFO all together and fly in and out of LA will it be possible to do LA, GC, vegas and san diego

I personally can't even imagine taking a 13 yo girl to Las Vegas - but it is your trip. SF and Yosemite are 100000% more appropriate for a young teenager IMO.

Cutting SF/Yosemite and adding San Diego only helps little. Still a lot in 10 days. But that mostly depends on what you want to see in LA/SD and if you intend to include any of the theme parks

You could do 3 nights LA/3 nights SD/3 nights LV -- but you'd definitely need to drive at least some of it. W/ all the travel you'd end up w/ 2-2.5 days free in each city.

What sorts of things are you interested in?