California

So from New Zealand we will be flying into LA ....this is probably the most planned country we have which is ironic because for months we didn't really know what to do.

Anyway we will be spending five days in LA with day trips to Malibu and Universal Studios using the monorails, from here we will be travelling via greyhound to San Diego. Greyhound coaches are very cheap and seem to be an ok way to travel. Friends have told me they are good and seem to be just like the megabus in the UK. Well we will soon find out im sure !!!

www.greyhound.com - have a look on their site, they seem to be very reasonable all over the US !!

In San Diego , we plan to go to Old town , have a look around the harbour and the Uni. We are very excited to go here and have been told great things.

From SD we will be getting a greyhound again , which will transfer in San Bernandino but will get us to Las Vegas for 5pm , just in time for us to check in at the Stratosphere and then we plan to go up the tower to get the best views at night , we may eat at the hotel too as we have set days to explore.

From the Strat we will be going to a lesser known hotel but its not too far and allows us a few days to explore. In one of these days we will be doing the Grand Canyon tour which we got a very good deal on from a friend who said she went and it was fabulous!!

www.papillon.com - Grand Canyon Tour

From here we will then stay in the circus circus after going to the LA lakers game at the MGM , we are very excited about this as we really wanted to see a baseball game but we will have missed the season so we are off to see a basketball one but think it will be just as good. We got our tickets from ticketmaster and only paid £19 pp.

After a night at the CC we will then get another greyhound overnight to San Fran, we thought this was the best option as we will be saving a night in accomm. In San Fran we have booked our alcatraz tix which we purchased on their website and it only cost £18pp. We thought this was a really good deal and have booked the early bird hoping that the island will be quieter then and we can spend as long as we want there!!

Then we will be spending halloween with my great friend in San Fran , something i can't wait for !! We will then on our last day have a road trip to Santa Cruz and monteray bay and then get a flight to LA to connect to our flight home !!!

Any ideas to fill in some spare time?

Thanks

S&L

xx