Route 66 Honeymoon by Kathryn & Aidan (my lovely clients!)

Jen Crowe on 16 August 2019
This blog has been written by my lovely clients, Kathryn and Aidan who just returned from a 22-night trip exploring the west coast of America and then travelling along Route 66. Here are their top tips and highlights.

It’s impossible to choose just one highlight, there were so many!

For Aidan: • San Francisco- cycling the Golden Gate Bridge • Albuquerque- going up the Sandia Peak Tram and The International Balloon Museum • Oklahoma City- The National Memorial and Museum

For Kathryn:

• Alcatraz in San Francisco- what a place! Definitely worth a visit. • Watching the sunset over the Grand Canyon and flying over it the next morning, no pictures will ever do it justice. • Albuquerque Old Town- what a beautiful place with lots to see and do!

What was a must see?

• Alcatraz for both of us - you have to go there!

For Aidan:

• Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo • The Blue Whale of Catoosa near Tulsa • Tilt at 360 Chicago- although Kathryn wasn’t so sure on this one!

For Kathryn:

• The Grand Canyon • A show in Vegas- we saw Mystere by Cirque du Soleil and it was absolutely incredible. • Bricktown in Oklahoma City- what a cool little place! • The Gateway Arch in St Louis- the views are absolutely incredible!

What would be a top tip that you discovered yourselves during the trip?

• Pack light because you will buy a lot at all the outlets, we say this after travelling in a Ford Mustang with 3 suitcases- we had to buy a 4th! • We both got a Revolut Card- what a life saver! They can be used anywhere, and you can just add money to your account via the app when you need it! • Use Uber in the cities, it’s way cheaper than the local taxis and we found the drivers to be friendlier.

And lastly what do you feel was the benefit of using my services?

We knew we wanted to do the West Coast and Route 66 and didn’t even know where to start, that was the brief we gave Jen and she managed to pull together an amazing itinerary. We loved how flexible she was and that we could adapt the itinerary to suit us. Any questions we had she was able to answer, which immediately put our minds at ease.

It was also great to have that feeling of a “safety net”, knowing that if anything went wrong while we were away, we had someone we could contact immediately. Jen kept in contact the whole trip and checked us in for our flights, telling us where we needed to be and when, this took a lot of the stress away for us! We will definitely be using her again!

Kathryn and Aidan’s itinerary – San Francisco – Los Angeles – Las Vegas – Grand Canyon – Holbrook – Albuquerque – Amarillo – Oklahoma – Springfield – Saint Louis – Chicago.

If you would like for details on this itinerary, I would love to hear from you!

Tel – 07904918070 E – jen.crowe@travelcounsellors.com