Our family went in 2006. We stayed at the Ahawanee. I made the reservation one year ahead! The Ahawanee is very hard to get into. We flew to Fresno and rented a car. It was a 2 hour drive from Fresno to the Park. Yosemite is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. It was absolutely stunning everywhere you looked. We did a bus tour to Glacier Point, and hiking to Mirror Lake and Nevada Falls. Our hotel had a pool, which was very relaxing.
Tunnel View as you enter the valley:
View from our room:
View of Nevada Falls from Glacier Point:
Half Dome, from Glacier Point:
All of us on the Nevada Falls hike:
My kids at the pool at The Ahawanee:
Mirror Lake:
The food in the park was better than I expected. We ate in the dining room at the Ahawanee the first night, then the pizza place the next night; then the food court at the Yosemite Lodge and then the fine dining room at the Yosemite Lodge the 4th nights. Breakfast was the buffet at our hotel and room service on the last day.
DS6 at The Dining Room at The Ahawanee:
Dining room at Yosemite Lodge. What a view!
Sequoia trees:
After four nights in the park we drove to Valencia and spent 2 nights & went to Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor; then we drove to San Luis Obispo and spent 2 nights there. Overall it was a very relaxing vacation and absolutely, I would go again.
View from our cabana at Hurricane Harbor:
DS12 on X:
Sunset over the Pacific at The Cliffs in Pismo Beach:
