Anyone travelled around America?

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Looking at this for next summer but I expect it will cost way more than we can afford.

If you’ve done this where did you go? We would have to do New York and I guess I’d like somewhere beachy as well. Quite fancy LA but it’s the other side of the country so have looked at Florida.

Also contemplated Canada.

just in the perusing stages at the moment but I’d be interested to know where people have been and who it’s booked with.

I have always booked directly and planned it myself. I like cape cod/boston combined with New York.

Didn't book with anyone. Flew into Logan. What do you mean -- travel around? Like a road trip? I did rattle about a lot on Greyhound buses myself, but these days I tend to travel between friends.

I've done a few but booked the elements myself.
Flights into and out of different airports.
Internal flights booked direct with airline.
Accommodation through Booking.com or hotels.com.
Attraction tickets direct with the venue.

Get a decent credit card like Halifax Clarity to book in US $ where appropriate.

If you fly into New York you can rent a car and drive down the eastern seaboard along New Jersey and Delaware. You could then head west and visit Washington D.C., which is a great city.

We did New York, Washington and Miami. Flights and hotels booked with American Airlines.

There's quite a few airlines that do multi city trips with accommodation- American, British Airways, Virgin.

We never fancied driving so that's not for us.

Have done a few trips:
Boston and Maine
california, Nevada and Arizona - booked fly drive with Virgin- favourite trip as included Disney, Grand Canyon, vegas - but quite a lot of driving.
florida and Alabama visiting friends - flights and hotels booked separately

Sorry I should have been more specific. We wouldn’t want to drive. Looking at multi centre holidays with trailfinders at the moment but suspect they’ll be expensive. We will have 2 teens with us.

Thanks. I have looked at cape cod briefly and Washington DC

This sounds good.

Yes I've traveled around America ..
But I'd be no good to you.
This was 1978 when l was 20.
We flew into New York.
Went to Connecticut to stay with penfriend.. then to Maine/ Boston.
Caught the Greyhound and hired an Harley Davison and travelled 26 States for a year.
Was amazing.
Came home on my 21st Birthday.

You could combine DC, New York and Boston flying into one city and out of the other and getting the train between the three.

The US train service really isn’t great APART from this route.

There’s also a ferry from Boston to Provincetown on Cape Cod and most lodging will pick you up or arrange transfers from the ferry. Definitely possible without needing a car.

We have also flown into NYC and then flown down to Miami and Key West. Flights were about £90 each way.

I've done I95 road trip top to bottom and back.

More recently we visited NYC with a flight up to the Niagara falls for a couple of days.

I love Maine and the northern New England states. Perhaps stagger Boston/cape cod with a trip up there.

Amtrak in the north east, or between NCY and Philadelphia isn't so bad.

Booked all the connections ourselves, Jet Blue being a preferred airline. Booking. com for hotels has always worked for me!

I live in Canada and travel a lot in North America. I would say:
Avoid switching time zones unless its really important, going NY to LA means a 3 hour time switch and a long flight.
Use the smaller airports - so leave NY from LGA, in Washington use Ronald Reagan not Dulles. You can go places you would not normally be able to go to easily, EG West Palm Beach or Raleigh.