lmhall2000
May the road rise to meet you....May God hold you
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2002
This is our last family vacation before all our kids leave for college...(empty nesters ) I am trying to pack a load into these days!
Aug2: fly LAX-rental car to Courtyard Theme Park...park...walk over to park. (9:30 am) we have 3 day tix that earn us one EMH but I had planned to do DL (Wed) CA (Thu) DL (Fri)...none of those let us use an EMH at opening, should we switch and do CA-DL-DL, is the EMH that good or are we better to go to park that doesn't have it that day?
Aug5: Early 6am departure (mainly bc my grumbling travelers will sleep through most the Drive) to Sequoyah, then on to Yosemite staying at Half-Dome Village for 3 nights. Planned out our hikes and Tioga Road Drive.
Aug8: early morning departure headed back to LA area. I need to use my Hilton points and stay at beach hotel, the best one I found was Huntington Beach...is that one worth driving 40 minutes south of LAX? We need to be at airport by 7:00am and return rental. The kids really want a beach day and most other Hiltons are a good walk to beach either in Santa Monica or Manhattan? The Huntington one would be free for the night with points so we'd just pay for parking.
Any tips on stops/food/things we may need, we have no checked bags and each has a small back pack, figure we'll buy snack foods/cooler for Yosemite.
We are used to driving 13 hour days getting them to college, so the drive doesn't bug us..any bit worth doing PCH if it makes Drive 2+ hours longer?
Kids were in LA 18 years ago, but none remember it, trying to make this one to remember
Aug2: fly LAX-rental car to Courtyard Theme Park...park...walk over to park. (9:30 am) we have 3 day tix that earn us one EMH but I had planned to do DL (Wed) CA (Thu) DL (Fri)...none of those let us use an EMH at opening, should we switch and do CA-DL-DL, is the EMH that good or are we better to go to park that doesn't have it that day?
Aug5: Early 6am departure (mainly bc my grumbling travelers will sleep through most the Drive) to Sequoyah, then on to Yosemite staying at Half-Dome Village for 3 nights. Planned out our hikes and Tioga Road Drive.
Aug8: early morning departure headed back to LA area. I need to use my Hilton points and stay at beach hotel, the best one I found was Huntington Beach...is that one worth driving 40 minutes south of LAX? We need to be at airport by 7:00am and return rental. The kids really want a beach day and most other Hiltons are a good walk to beach either in Santa Monica or Manhattan? The Huntington one would be free for the night with points so we'd just pay for parking.
Any tips on stops/food/things we may need, we have no checked bags and each has a small back pack, figure we'll buy snack foods/cooler for Yosemite.
We are used to driving 13 hour days getting them to college, so the drive doesn't bug us..any bit worth doing PCH if it makes Drive 2+ hours longer?
Kids were in LA 18 years ago, but none remember it, trying to make this one to remember