California here we come!

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Hurrah! We've booked our flights and will be over there for two weeks in August. My BIL lives in SF with his partner so that will be our base. We have decided on a trip to Monterey and a stay in Yosemite (for our wildlife obsessed DS).

DH and I have been before but never with kids so any advice, ideas, recommendations would be very gratefully received! And we're flying Virgin so any thoughts about that would be great. I've never done a long haul with DC!

So excited! DS is 5 and DD is 2 incidentally.

Rent a car and drive down the Big Sur?
Visit the Hearst Mansion (it is awesome!)
The flight is long but honestly, it's not that bad, expect delays and make a plan for one and you'll be hunky dory.

How exciting.
We are flying to SF in August too with virgin. I have all my hotels booked so na planning what to do each day.
We have 3 days in SF, I think my kids are too young for Alcatraz so planning
Fishermans wharf
Golden gate
Golden gate park
Cable car
Shopping union square

Then we go to yosemite for 3 nights then back to monterey and down the oats to LA.

There is a Great thread on this page somewhere with loads of good SF ideas on