How is the fare for the buses and metro? Is it expensive?
Thanks for all your help!
No. No no no. Don't do this. You can't do LA with only the buses and metros; the public transport infrastructure in LA is a disgrace. The Metro doesn't go anywhere you'd want to go (even with the new Metro Line to Santa Monica), and buses in LA are going to take hours and hours.
Either rent a car, or take taxis/Uber.
I have never actually been to one of these thanksgiving sales myself, but why are there stampedes and fights and all if the deals aren't even that great? Stupidity? Lol
Basically, yeah.
Don't waste your time queueing up at 12:01am and running the risk of getting trampled for deals that will probably be sold out by the time you get to them; in fact most stores have stopped offering "doorbuster" deals on Black Friday just because they're scared of people getting hurt in the rush.
Amazon usually has some OK deals for Black Friday, though.
Hoover dam and grand canyon i tink u can do it together in a day.i find hoover dam nicer..grand canyon the PRC shutter army will make u feel turn off .
I'll be honest, I have to strongly disagree with this. The Grand Canyon South Rim (not the West Rim, which isn't as nice) is four hours each way from Las Vegas. You can't do that
and the Hoover Dam in one day; even Hoover Dam and Red Rock Canyon is a bit of a squeeze.
That said:
28 Nov Grand Canyon to Sedona
I recommend this to everyone, but it's worth mentioning again: when you're doing this drive, head out the east entrance of Grand Canyon National Park, and stop at the
Cameron Trading Post to pick up some Native American souvenirs and eat at the restaurant. The fry bread is fantastic.
Go visit both outlets in vegas..some really good deal. If u drive save your money on the hotels..consider travelodge. Use the spare cash for shows or shopping
I have to disagree with these as well. The two premium outlet malls in Vegas are basically exactly the same stores; going to both of them is a waste of time. The South one's a bit bigger, but the North one might be closer if you're staying up the top end of the strip.
Hotel-wise, economising on the hotels while you're on the road is a pretty good idea: you don't need to go all the way down to Motel-6 or Super-8 level (some of them can be really scuzzy), but the cheaper chain motels are suprisingly good: Hampton Inn (Hilton's economy brand) and Holiday Inn/Holiday Inn Express (IHG's economy brand) are absolutely everywhere in roadside America, and they're always consistent. (And if you're loyal to one chain, you can even rack up some pretty decent hotel points too - don't forget to sign up for the chain's loyalty program if you aren't a loyalist already.)
In Vegas, though, you'll get the best deals at the big hotels on the strip, especially around that Thanksgiving weekend (because everybody flies home to visit their families that weekend, so there's no big conferences in Vegas). You can get the Mandalay Bay on your dates for about $110 a night, or my personal fave the Vdara (every room is a full-on studio apartment) for $135/nt.
I will be heading over to California in September. Will be planning about 11 days of road trip around Las Vegas, Anaheim, maybe SF. Can anyone recommend a reliable car rental services and what car to rent? Only 2 of us with maybe 3 big luggage.
So as much as I'd love to recommend a classic American muscle car - a Mustang, or even better a Corvette - you're not going to fit three large bags in the back of a Corvette. I used to own one; half the reason I got rid of it was because it didn't have enough luggage space.
Around the $50/day mark you're probably looking at a decent full-size car, maybe even a mid-size SUV. Avis, at least, has a "pick any standard car and go" policy if you book a mid-size or larger; I swapped a mid-size sedan for a Hyundai Santa Fe 4WD SUV when my parents came over for a road trip earlier this year, and that'll have more than enough storage space for you.
(It turned out to be a bloody good trade, too: the Hyundai was a deeply boring car but it got us from point A (San Francisco) to point B (Albuquerque) and back and never missed a beat. The 4WD came in handy when we ended up driving through snowstorms three days in a row, including a bananas chucking-it-down one-foot-an-hour snowstorm 9500 feet up on the otherwise-gorgeous
Route 12 in Utah. There was a Prius in front of us that was slip-and-sliding all over the road, but I just kept my speed low and stayed in his tracks, and it was rock-solid.)
