PH American Tour
Trip of a lifetime? Our American tour might just be that - sign up here
The tour takes in three states across eight days with a total of 1,300 miles of driving. Along the way you will experience Death Valley, the Golden Gate Bridge, Route 66, Laguna Seca, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon as well as the best driving roads on the USA west coast.
American roads and American cars - epic!
The cars? It's American muscle or American muscle, appropriately enough. There's a choice of Camaro SS (coupe or convertible), Mustang GT, Dodge Challenger RT or a Corvette C6 convertible. A great selection, no? All excess mileage charges and insurance are paid on the cars, but fuel and toll charges will have to be met by the driver(s).
The PH American Tour costs from £1,699 per person, based on two people sharing a car and a twin or a double room. For solo drivers, the cost rises to £2,079 for a room being shared with another tourist. A solo driver wanting their own room will have to pay £2,579.
For that, every driver gets their choice of car with excess mileage and insurance paid, seven nights hotel accommodation with breakfast (apart from Las Vegas), a loaned TomTom with the routes uploaded and a walkie-talkie for the car if the TomTom fails and help is needed. Hopefully neither circumstance will occur given two tour managers will accompany the group of cars throughout.
Each driver will have to pay for their own fuel, tolls, drinks and return flights to San Francisco. Make the most of breakfast too, as any other food will have to be paid for.
A place on the PH USA tour can be booked by phoning +44 (0)845 838 7363 and placing a £500 deposit. It's only 113 days away after all!
Very well organised and well worth the money in my opinion.
Artist's Drive is one way, and very twisty. Excellent road to stick rigorously to the limit on. Lots of rock faces to reflect exhaust noise from too.
Yosamite is gorgeous, and the road up to glacier point is pretty good fun. I wanted to live there forever.
Laguna had a track day on when I was there, which was very tempting.
The coast road south of SF is awesome, unless it's full of traffic, which it will be. I got to LA in 9 hours and arrived angry. So many cars pootling along with the driver staring at the sea - just park for the views, and use the road for driving.
On the North side of the Golden Gate is a WW2 fort and gun emplacement which is quite a good place for static photos. When I was taking pictures of our 'stang (I hate it when I call it that, but keep doing it anyway) there were some models doing a fashion shoot clambering over the old concrete.
Will be in the Vegas area (starting in Phoenix) in March next year and need a car for 2-3 weeks. Mustang v8 convertible or similar :-)
Another possibility it to join National's 'Emerald club' you may need a US address for this ie your hotel before you get there and then pay to upgrade your midsize car if required. I got a Mustang V6 convertible for the price of a mid-size car in Vegas using this method. The only V8 Mustangs I've seen are tin tops other than the Shelby GT-H I got married in some years ago and they don't rent them any more.
I am actually on holiday in Jackson Hole and Yellowstone at the moment. On Friday there was a fantastic Hot Rod show/meet in town. There were about 100 of the very coolest 40s-70s hot rods in fantastic condition...60s and 70s Camaros, Mustangs and loads of others it was fantastic...will post some pics when I get back.
Driving here is great as well...100 miles on normal roads is about as easy as 50 on the UK motorways...no stopping, no traffic etc.
Brilliant.
Had a fantastic time. My advice, since you're sorting your own flights is to tag a couple of days on either end in San Fran. The youth hostels are good enough if you want a cheap option. The night tour of Alcatraz is amazing.
Route 1 North of San Fran is very pretty too, very different from the main Pacific Coast Highway. Probably the unexpected highlight of our trip along there...
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