Please help me plan my trip in San Francisco, LA plus others

Hi, i am off to San Francisco on the 27th March for 2 weeks with my new partner and wanting to make it the best 2 weeks ever and see lots of things. I have got some activities booked already. I am wanting to see as much as possible but not to push and rush things please help me with my holiday with what i should do and see and how long for.

27th Friday - Staying in Hilton San Francisco first day just chill and explore abit

28th Sat - Staying in Hilton San Francisco visit sights.

29th Sun - Staying in Hilton San Francisco and then 4.20pm Alcatraz Trip

30th Mon -

31st Tue -

1st Wed -

2nd Thurs -

3rd Fri -

4th Sat -

5th Sun -

6th Mon -

7th Tue

8th Wed - Baseball match in San Francisco at 7pm ish

9th Thurs - Get ready to flight back home.

Many thanks in advance.

@mintynw7:

If you'd like others to provide you with recommendations, you'll have to be more specific as to the type of activities you are looking for, your budget, etc... You also mentioned in the title that you'd like to visit LA, but made no mention of it in your itinerary.

If you're looking for ideas about what to do, you can find them all over this site, and other sites - you might take a look at Nile Guide and GoPlanit, I know they have content for San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Right i am open to options to what to do etc.. so guides would be great love to see all the sights of LA, San Diego, Santa Barbara and the coast inbetween.

Going to be working on a budget for rooms of our $50 a night for the trip in between.

Maybe something like the following will work.

27th Friday - Staying in Hilton San Francisco first day just chill and explore a bit

28th Sat - Staying in Hilton San Francisco visit sights. (Chinatown/Little Italy/Fisherman’s Wharf/Palace of Fine Arts/Cable Cars)

29th Sun - Staying in Hilton San Francisco and then 4.20pm Alcatraz Trip

30th Mon – Drive to San Jose, visit the Winchester Mystery House, continue on to Santa Cruz and Monterey. Spend night in Monterey or Carmel

31st Tue –Visit Monterey aquarium for 1-2 hours, drive along Monterey coast, take a drive on the 17 mile drive through Pebble Beach (takes about 2-3 hours).

1st Wed – Visit Cannery Row in Monterey in morning, then drive down Highway 1 to Cambria and book stay on Moonstone Beach in Cambria. Visit Hearst Castle in late afternoon; (book tickets ahead because they often are sold out).

2nd Thurs -Take Highway 46 east through Paso Robles area and visit the wineries there. Do a bit of sampling and then drive on down back to coastline and south to Morro Bay for a nice dinner. Continue on to San Luis Obispo for evening visit and stay in hotel. Visit the Apple Farm Inn and the Madonna Inn to see unusual sights.

3rd Fri –Go down to Los Olivos and have a nice lunch there. Then continue on to Solvang, an old Danish town. Visit the town and also the ostrich farm nearby. Continue on to Santa Barbara where you will stay the night.

4th Sat –Visit the mission in the morning or at lunchtime. Walk up and down state street—and also visit the coastline near the pier. Drive on to Los Angeles this evening, taking highway 1 through Malibu and into Santa Monica where you will stay.

5th Sun – Visit Venice Beach in the morning/afternoon. Pick the LA spots you want to visit—for example, Huntington Library in San Marino or Universal Studios near Burbank or Disneyland in Anaheim, or the coast near Huntington Beach and Newport Beach or visit a TV show--I suggest the Jay Leno show if it is filming then (NBC Studios in Burbank). Stay somewhere near one of these places.

6th Mon –Visit the second of the places you are interested from the list above, or head north to go up to Fresno if you plan to visit Yosemite.

7th Tue—Drive back to San Francisco all in one day—or else spend this day driving through Yosemite and then back towards San Francisco.

8th Wed – Morning spent visiting a few last spots in San Francisco—or else visiting the Muir Woods just north of San Francisco—or Sausalito via the ferry, then back to San Francisco for the Baseball match in San Francisco at 7pm ish
9th Thurs - Get ready for flight back home

Enjoy

@mintynw7:

Given the time you have for your trip, it might be hard to drive from San Francisco to San Diego and back, while still having enough time to enjoy the places in between - SF to LA is probably more reasonable, unless you are OK with the extra 4-6 hours of driving time you'd be adding if you went all the way to San Diego and back.

I think CalCruzer has a number of good suggestions for stopping points along the drive between SF and LA. I'm a little concerned your room budget could be low - certainly in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles hotel rooms can be expensive, especially on weekends.

Depending on what you're looking for in your visit to LA, you might want to try staying in one of the "beach cities" of Hermosa & Manhattan Beach. I know in Hermosa there is a good cheap hotel right on the beach called the SeaSprite Inn. If you're there on a Sunday evening, you can actually see Jay Leno at the Hermosa Comedy & Magic Club, if you're into that kind of thing.

enjoy

Allot a couple of days for Yosemite National Park. It's off season and very few tourists.