2016 holiday with Teens - touring USA or Canada

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Hi I would like a holiday that combines touring natural parts of the USA or Canada as well as a couple of nights in a city eg staying in San Fran and also Yosemite.
However neither DH not I will drive abroad (nothing anyone says will change us on this so please don't turn the thread into a 'how easy it is to drive' thanks).
The second thing is that I can find tours but they all involve quite a lot of camping. I hate camping. I could manage for a couple of nights say 2/3 but after that I will be miserable.
Any ideas anyone??

We've just done a trip with our teens although we drove. We went to San Francisco, where we didn't have a car. You could easily have week there, and do a coach trip into Yosemite which is fab.
Could you then do am internal flight somewhere? We didn't really like LA much, although loved Universal Studios. We loved San Diego and could have spent a week there, we stayed at Mission Bay, which was a couple of miles from Seaworld. Not sure how else you would get around, but there must be ways. In LA there were plenty of buses.

look into the Canadian rockies tours where you take the train from Vancouver. only takes a couple of days though. cant think that you can do it any other way other than drive or look at a sort of greyhound bus route tour. do you really want to do a coach tour? getting into the national parks under anything other than your own steam is going to be quite tricky but also perhaps prohibitively expensive. eco tours tend to be the ones that offer without driving and these tend to be ones that do out back camping with no facilities. couldn't think of anything worse than this. what do you do on other holidays if you don't drive?

Greyhound buses are pretty good, but I don't know about luggage restrictions and the like.

As PP said, San Diego is amazing. Was there for the Comicon so it was busy but still fantastic.

We've done train trips in the USA both pre children and last year with teens and pre teen. The distances are huge so involves some sleeping on the train - make someone els have the top berth is my advice, but was lots of fun. Denver was a surprisingly popular city with my gang.

We do use trains, buses and taxis and sometimes organised coach day trips. I'm noting Norwegian fly to LA so could overnight on the train to San Fran or short hop to San Diego from there. Also I'm considering a tour into Yosemite from San Fran and basing ourselves there.

Checked for the Canadian Rockies and it looks like you could travel using Brewsters /www.brewster.ca/transportation/brewster-banff-airport-express/. However it depends what you want to do when you get there as most of the great nature trails require driving to get to them.

Or slightly different area. Fly into Vancouver, get the seaplane across to Vancouver Island - we love Tofino as it's a glorious area with an amazing beach and great rainforest walks. Stay outside the main town as it's more scenic, but during the summer there's a free tourist bus to get you around.

You could then go back to Vancouver and there is a scenic train trip that takes you up to Whistler. We didn't use a car at all in Whistler and we were there for 4 nights - loads to do, scenic walks, bike rides, zip wiring, canoeing etc. Accomodation in Whistler in summer is fabulous and pretty inexpensive as winter is the peak season.

love the ideas rookie - thank you - I will do some research

Let me know if you want any accommodation suggestions.We stayed and saw some great places when away.