Hi, all! New here and hoping for some advice. Our family needs to be in Portland, OR at the end of March for a family event. Since we're flying across the country anyway, we've decided to take advantage and check off some family bucket list items while we're out that way.
Our current plan is fly into Las Vegas, as we can inexpensively fly there nonstop from our hometown, and rent an RV. Our daughter has multiple severe food allergies and we've been considering buying an RV as an easier way to travel safely with her. This will be a trial run of sorts to see how it works for us.
So we'll pick up the RV in Las Vegas and then we have two possible itineraries in mind:
1. Zion National Park, Grand Canyon, Sedona, then over to Anaheim for a couple of days at Disneyland. Return the RV in LA and fly from LAX to Portland.
2. Head right to Anaheim, maybe with a detour for either Death Valley or Joshua Tree. Spend a couple of days at Disneyland then drive up the coast to San Francisco, stopping for a night or two along the way. Return the RV in San Francisco and fly from SFO to Portland.
We have 7 nights for this part of the trip. Are we being overzealous with our plans?
It will be mid-March, probably 16th-23rd. Are either of these itineraries better at that time of year?
Overall which would be a better trip with the RV? We are planning to rent a Class C in the 25-27' range. I feel like the RV may be better suited to the first itinerary but I don't know as we are brand new to this.
Any feedback would be very much appreciated as I know we need to get booking things!
EDIT to add: I originally posted this question on a travel board for the Western US and most responses said, "do not rent an RV for this trip." I wasn't able to discern whether these people just didn't like/ know much about RVing or if our plan didn't make sense with an RV. So looking forward to the feedback here!
Our current plan is fly into Las Vegas, as we can inexpensively fly there nonstop from our hometown, and rent an RV. Our daughter has multiple severe food allergies and we've been considering buying an RV as an easier way to travel safely with her. This will be a trial run of sorts to see how it works for us.
So we'll pick up the RV in Las Vegas and then we have two possible itineraries in mind:
1. Zion National Park, Grand Canyon, Sedona, then over to Anaheim for a couple of days at Disneyland. Return the RV in LA and fly from LAX to Portland.
2. Head right to Anaheim, maybe with a detour for either Death Valley or Joshua Tree. Spend a couple of days at Disneyland then drive up the coast to San Francisco, stopping for a night or two along the way. Return the RV in San Francisco and fly from SFO to Portland.
We have 7 nights for this part of the trip. Are we being overzealous with our plans?
It will be mid-March, probably 16th-23rd. Are either of these itineraries better at that time of year?
Overall which would be a better trip with the RV? We are planning to rent a Class C in the 25-27' range. I feel like the RV may be better suited to the first itinerary but I don't know as we are brand new to this.
Any feedback would be very much appreciated as I know we need to get booking things!
EDIT to add: I originally posted this question on a travel board for the Western US and most responses said, "do not rent an RV for this trip." I wasn't able to discern whether these people just didn't like/ know much about RVing or if our plan didn't make sense with an RV. So looking forward to the feedback here!