Hello, I am planning to visit the USA from Canada this Christmas with my wife and two kids. Please suggest some places that will entertain us as well as safest for my family. Thanks in advance, Happy Christmas.
Best Place for Visit in USA?
LRoseK on 25/12/2018 - 02:09
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USA and Canada very big, which city or region?
I have mixed feelings about the US but one of the things they do really well is they invest a lot in their national parks. So would recommend heading to your national parks of choice and spending a few days hiking and exploring them! (Most of the national parks have plenty of shorter, baby friendly walks to go with the usual multi day hikes.)
Wallyworld.
The drive is half the fun.Walmart is pretty fun :)
You need to go there on the back of a pickup truck and scream "There she blows!" at every obese white person you see.
Washington DC is great - so many museums (including for kids like the Air and Space) and monuments to see and most of it is free. Might want to check what impact the shutdown has…
Heaps of places. Suggest you get a lonely planet usa book and choose yourself as everyone has there own interests and what they like to see. Also very large country, so really need to focus on an area, rather than whole country. To start with ideas like grand canyon, disneyland/university studios, new york, Niagara falls etc etc.
vegas baby.
As an American Aussie, it really would depend on your interests.
Beautiful scenery - NE (New England States, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire) MidWest (Colorado-Grand Canyon, Northern New Mexico, Wyoming-yellowstone, Washington State, Oregon) All of those I would rent a car for them and do some traveling that way.
For History visit - Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Savannah Georgia, Atlanta Georgia, New Orleans Louisiana.
For shows or entertainment in large cities visit New York, New York, Hollywood California, Los Vegas Nevada.
Want beaches- visit the coasts of North Carolina, Floridia, or California (colder coast would be Maine)
Theme Parks - Atlanta Georgia , Orlando Florida, Anaheim California [https://upgradedpoints.com/best-amusement-parks-in-north-america/]
I always wanted to take a train trip across the USA from E-W… https://www.vacationsbyrail.com/united-states/usa-coast-to-c… My 1st choice [https://www.vacationsbyrail.com/united-states/usa-coast-to-coast/americas-coast-to-coast]
Here's a list of what I did around this time last year:
- San Francisco (probably my favourite place - gets so cold there though)
- Oregon is great for snow/White Christmas etc - also cold
- Vegas is great for nightlife - cold at night
- LA is one big sprawling mess - kind of cold
- Southern California is nice - bit cold
- Grand Canyon Arizona - probably only place not cold
- Hollywood Walk is kinda disappointing but still nice - also cold.
- Beverly Hills and surrounds, drive around and complain about how rich they are. Nice there, but don't get out of the car - it's cold.
There's some stuff. It's cold btw.
PS - if you have kids don't go to the spooky castle in San Fran that got a movie made about it
Also: make sure you visit a warehouse-sized Walmart, a Macca's and Taco Bell.
Cold gets mentioned 9 times, although 1 is probably not cold. Does not sound like fun, for someone scared of cold! (I mean me) :-)
Yeah, definitely going in July next time. It was around 45°C at home last December and here I was shivering through -15°C!!
The snow was lovely though. Just be prepared and bring more than one warm outfit!
Oh and btw, that was the warmer side - Chicago/NY were worse and airports were even closed!! There was snow in Florida on the palm trees lol
Thank you for the tip, definitely summer (not winter) destination then!
Death Valley
Plastic drinking straws are banned in many states but guns are perfectly legal.