Traveling without a car on the West Coast

Not all of you who are planning a travel on your own to west coast of united states, for different reasons, you have the possibility of renting a car to travel to the different places you want to visit.

I am passionate about traveling by car, and whenever I can, I travel that way.

Not using a car to make the trip will limit your possibilities when it comes to planning all the visits you would like to make, but it does not prevent you from having an excellent trip along the west coast.

Below I present two alternatives with their pros and cons to do your trip along the west coast of the United States.

Organized trip along the West Coast

The first alternative is to consider hiring a organized trip by one of the large agencies that offer the destination of the west coast of the United States in its catalog of great trips, or even agencies that organize it for you to measure.

This trip ensures that you will visit the places of greatest tourist demand, and you will have the comfort of having almost everything practically resolved. You just have to let yourself be guided.

However, you won't find many different alternatives for organized trips to the west coast, unless you book the trip with agencies that organize it to suit you. In any case, it may be the most expensive alternative.

This type of organized trip also has other conditions, such as having to follow the visiting program and previously established trips, with times already assigned and with very little room to leave the program. In addition, you will have to adapt to schedules, which are sometimes very demanding.

Without a doubt it is the most comfortable alternative.

Hire excursions along the West Coast

Another alternative is not to give up organize your trip to the West Coast of the United States on your own, combining long-distance travel by plane, with the hiring of excursions specific to make visits close to big cities.

Specifically, a first tourist trip to the west coast of between ten or fifteen days, must without fail include visits from San Francisco, Los Angeles y Las Vegas. And between these three cities you can make internal flights, which in the United States are quite cheap.

Or in the case of the trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, you can do it by road in a comfortable bus, which will allow you to see the Mojave desert.

Then, during your stay in each of these cities, in addition to spending a couple of days visiting it, you can book excursions.

So, for example, you can hire an agency for excursions from San Francisco from one or two days to Yosemite National Park, from one day to the Carmel y Monterey, or from another day to Napa Wine Valley.

You can do the same in Los Angeles, for example by hiring a excursion to Santa Barbara.

And in the case of Las Vegas, a must-see excursion is visit the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, which you can do in a day trip by plane and helicopter, or also in coach.

In short, if you cannot use the car on your trip along the west coast, it does not prevent you from enjoying an excellent trip organized on your own.