Choose a VIP nightclub experience in Las Vegas for an organised night out in a city known for large-scale entertainment. Swap the Strip’s passing neon for the music, lights and energy of a club.

This is a nightlife-focused alternative to spending the evening independently around areas such as Fremont Street. The experience is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability and venue entry requirements.

Explore Miami with your Trip Manager and take a guided stroll through Little Havana, a neighbourhood shaped by the city’s Cuban community. Look out for colourful storefronts, cafés and the street life along Calle Ocho.

The walk offers an introduction to the music, food and traditions that give this part of Miami its character. It is a chance to experience the city beyond its beaches before the road trip heads inland.

Discover New Orleans on an orientation through the French Quarter, taking in Jackson Square and the streets around this historic neighbourhood. Sample a beignet, the sugar-dusted fried pastry that has become one of the city’s best-known treats.

French, Spanish, Caribbean and American influences meet in the Quarter’s architecture, food and music. Around its squares and arcaded buildings, jazz sounds and café aromas give this introduction a distinctly New Orleans feel.

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• New York City: A modular trip means fellow travellers will join and leave at various locations. There’ll be some goodbyes, sure, but there’ll also be plenty of hellos with new like-minded travellers.
• Los Angeles: The US is a large country – which means this trip involves some long journeys on the coach.  But it also means that you’ll have plenty of time to sit back, relax, enjoy the stunning scenery and get to know your fellow travellers.
• Los Angeles: The climate in this region is extremely varied. In shoulder season (May, September, and October) you can expect temperatures to vary between single digits and warm sunny days, while from June until September temperatures can reach well above 30 C (86 F).
• Los Angeles: It’s always a good idea to bring a warm windproof jacket. No matter which time of year you decide to travel, it can get quite cool at night (especially outside of the cities), so we recommend that you bring a warm jacket or fleece. This trip involves visiting National Parks, walking and light hiking is required to visit all the viewpoints listed. You should pack appropriate clothing for outdoor activities. Closed shoes are required for most activities.
• Grand Canyon National Park: Yes. For new bookings travelling from 01-Jan-2027, non-U.S. residents will be required to pay a separate National Parks entry fee due to new regulations from National Parks authorities. This fee is separate from any existing permits or inclusions. It will be added at the time of booking and paid with your final payment, due 60 days before departure.
  Please note: this fee is subject to change.
• New York City: You’ll now book and pay for your Free Time Add-Ons through WeTravel — a simple website link where you can browse all the FTAs, pick what you’re keen on, and pay directly by card, in any currency. You’ll get the link in your Welcome Email, usually 3–5 days before your trip starts. Once you’re in, it’s easy: check out the pics, descriptions and prices, add your chosen experiences to your cart, then check out online. You can book before your trip starts or while you’re on the road, up until each activity’s booking deadline.Missed the link? No stress. Your Trip Manager can share it with you on trip too.

• Miami: Hit the streets of Miami to explore all the attractions that make the city wonderful. Our Trip Manager will even take us a cute lil’ stroll in the beautiful Little Havana.
• Orlando: Can you handle this level of excitement? All of your childhood dreams are about to come true…  
• Savannah: Take a whistle-stop tour of Savannah, and tick another awesome city off your list.
• Nashville: Your Trip Manager will take you on an orientation tour of the city, setting you up for some exploration of your own.
• Memphis: With your Trip Manager, follow in the footsteps of B.B. King, Johnny Cash and Elvis as we sway from the riverfront to rock ‘n’ roll studios.
• Memphis: Trust us, you’ll be feeling anything but blue after trying the food here.
• New Orleans: Get to know New Orleans, with an orientation tour including the French Quarter – and the chance to sample the doughy and delightful New Orleans beignets.
• New Orleans: Sample the delicious doughy goodness that is a staple of the city’s food culture.
• Houston: Thought of as the centrepiece of downtown Houston, it’d be rude not to pay Market Square Park a visit while we’re here in Houston.
• Houston: We can’t fly you to the moon (not yet anyway) but we can offer you the next best thing… expect to learn plenty about interstellar travel.
• Dallas: Always wanted to know what it was like to live in the Wild West? Welcome to cowboy town. 
• Fort Worth: Our trip to the Fort Worth stockyards just took a turn for the tasty, with a delicious BBQ dinner coming our way this evening. Think smoky flavours, juicy, slow-cooked goodness and all the classic fixings on the side.
• Dallas: Your Trip Manager will take you on an orientation tour of the city, including the Dealey Plaza, the Arts District, the Dallas Reunion Tower and more.
• Amarillo: A rainbow-coloured art installation. Made from Cadillacs in the desert. That glows in the dark. Why the heck not?
• Albuquerque: We’ll gather at the gateway to the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico for a truly unique experience, learning all about Pueblo history, culture and art while contributing towards its preservation.
• Canyonlands National Park: So you can forget waiting around in the line!
• Arches National Park: So you can forget waiting around in the line!
• Grand Canyon National Park: You’ll discover the gargantuan beauty of Canyonlands, Arches, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef and the Grand Canyon.
• Capitol Reef National Park: So you can forget waiting around in the line!
• Bryce Canyon National Park: Everything’s bigger in America: even the national parks. Red ‘hoodoo’ rocks and pink cliffs are the ideal backdrop for that magical sunset.   
• Zion National Park: Navigate the red-sand landscape and see the epic canyon, hanging waterfalls and emerald pools.  
• Lake Powell: You’ll be taken aback by its sprawling beauty!
• Horseshoe Bend: AKA the most-photographed stretch of the Colorado River, with very good reason.
• Grand Canyon National Park: So you can forget waiting around in the line!
• Grand Canyon: An experience you’ll want to relive in your mind. Over and over again. #travelgoals
• Grand Canyon National Park: One obligatory ‘road trip’ pic, coming right up.
• Las Vegas: As we make our way along the iconic Las Vegas strip, you’ll have the chance to pop out and get a pic of the ‘Welcome to Las Vegas’ sign.

Explore Savannah on a brief city stop among its leafy public squares and historic streets. Keep an eye out for fountains, church architecture and horse-drawn carriages as you take in the city’s distinctive streetscape.

Savannah’s grid of shaded squares dates to its 18th-century founding. Their greenery and surrounding buildings offer a glimpse of the slower-paced atmosphere that has made this Georgia city a Southern landmark.

Get your bearings on a Trip Manager-led orientation tour of Nashville, a city closely associated with country music. Discover the character of Tennessee’s capital and pick up ideas for exploring its music scene.

Nashville’s story extends beyond the stage: the city also has an important place in the American civil rights movement. This introduction provides context for both sides of its heritage without committing you to a full day of sightseeing.

Visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville for a tour exploring the people and recordings behind the city’s musical identity. See exhibits that trace country music’s development and the performers who brought it to wider audiences.

Through instruments, costumes and archival material, the museum connects Nashville’s recording history with a genre rooted in many American traditions. It offers a focused look at the music behind the city’s reputation.

Follow your Trip Manager through Memphis’s music landmarks, with an introduction stretching from the riverfront towards the city’s rock ’n’ roll heritage. Hear how artists including B.B. King, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley became linked to this Tennessee city.

Memphis helped shape blues, soul and early rock ’n’ roll. The orientation sets its studios and performance history in context; visits inside Graceland and Sun Studio are separate optional experiences.

Visit Market Square Park in downtown Houston and take in a public space at the heart of the city’s historic centre. Its lawns and surrounding streets offer a contrast to Houston’s expansive modern skyline.

The square occupies a site associated with Houston’s earliest civic life. Spending time here offers a sense of the city beyond its space-industry reputation, with the scale and everyday rhythm of downtown close at hand.

Explore Space Center Houston and learn about human spaceflight, astronaut training and the missions connected to nearby NASA Johnson Space Center. Exhibits bring the engineering and human decisions behind space exploration into focus.

Houston has been central to American crewed space missions since the Apollo era. This visit turns the familiar phrase “Houston, we have a problem” into a broader story of mission control, scientific ambition and the people who make space travel possible.

Visit the Fort Worth Stockyards to encounter Texas’s cattle-driving heritage, then sit down to an included barbecue dinner with smoky, slow-cooked flavours and classic sides. The historic district’s Western character makes the meal part of a wider cultural experience.

Fort Worth grew as a centre of the cattle trade, and the Stockyards preserve reminders of that era. This pairing brings together the setting, the cattle-country story and a food tradition closely associated with Texas.

Join your Trip Manager for an orientation tour of Dallas featuring Dealey Plaza, the Arts District and Reunion Tower. See several sides of the city, from its cultural centre to landmarks that have become part of American history.

Dealey Plaza is inseparable from the events of November 1963, while the Arts District reflects Dallas’s continuing investment in museums and performance. The tour provides context for exploring the city further at your own pace.

Visit Cadillac Ranch outside Amarillo, where a row of Cadillacs stands nose-first in the Texas earth. Take in the brightly painted cars and photograph one of the road trip’s most recognisable pieces of roadside art.

Created in 1974 by the art collective Ant Farm, the installation reflects America’s fascination with cars, design and open highways. Its changing layers of paint make each visit look a little different.

Visit Albuquerque’s Indian Pueblo Cultural Center for a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience focused on Pueblo history, culture and art. Learn about the living traditions of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblo communities through a centre dedicated to sharing and preserving their heritage.

This is an opportunity to engage with Pueblo perspectives rather than treating the region’s Indigenous history as something confined to the past. Your visit also supports the centre’s cultural-preservation work.

Explore Arches National Park near Moab, home to more than 2,000 documented natural sandstone arches. View the red-rock landscape and its sculpted formations, with opportunities to photograph the shapes that make this Utah park distinctive.

Wind, water and time have worked on layers of sandstone to create a landscape of spans, fins and balanced rock. The park visit is included; travellers should note that a separate national-parks fee may apply to non-U.S. residents.

Visit Canyonlands National Park as the included alternative to the optional Moab Jeep ride. Take in a vast desert landscape cut by the Colorado and Green Rivers, with canyon views that reveal the scale of southeastern Utah’s red-rock country.

The rivers and their tributaries have carved a maze of mesas and deep gorges over immense spans of time. Choosing this park visit keeps the focus on wide-open scenery and the geology of the Colorado Plateau.

Discover Capitol Reef National Park, where red cliffs and canyons give the journey through Utah a different sense of scale. Take in the park’s layered rock formations and the shifting colours of its high-desert landscape.

Much of Capitol Reef follows the Waterpocket Fold, a long buckle in the Earth’s crust that helps explain its dramatic geology. The included visit makes this less familiar national park a distinct stop in its own right.

See the hoodoo-filled landscape of Bryce Canyon National Park, where slender rock spires and pink-orange cliffs create a striking view. Experience the park’s high-elevation scenery and look across its natural amphitheatres.

Bryce’s hoodoos were shaped over time by erosion and repeated freezing and thawing. The park visit is included; horseback riding and the hosted stargazing experience are separate optional ways to discover this landscape.

Explore Zion National Park and spend time among the towering white, pink and red sandstone walls of Zion Canyon. Listen for birdsong, look out for wildlife and choose trails suited to your ability to experience the canyon on foot.

The Virgin River helped carve this landscape, where cliffs rise above pockets of greenery and hanging gardens. With much of the day available in the park, there is room to appreciate its scenery beyond a single viewpoint.

View Horseshoe Bend, the sweeping curve of the Colorado River near Page, Arizona. Stand at the overlook to see the river wrap around a sandstone promontory far below and capture one of the Southwest’s best-known canyon scenes.

The bend’s shape becomes clear from above, where desert rock frames the blue-green water. It is a focused scenic visit with a viewpoint that rewards a moment spent taking in the scale, not just a quick photograph.

Take in Lake Powell’s desert-and-water scenery near the Utah–Arizona border. View the reservoir’s broad stretches of water against the surrounding sandstone, a striking change in colour and texture from the region’s canyon viewpoints.

Formed by Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, Lake Powell occupies a landscape shaped by both natural geology and 20th-century water management. This included scenic stop offers a different perspective on the Colorado Plateau.

Watch sunset from the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, looking across layered cliffs and the vast canyon carved by the Colorado River. Changing light brings out different tones in the rock and offers time to take in the view.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Grand Canyon reveals a long record of geological history in its exposed strata. This South Rim experience is included; an optional helicopter flight offers a separate view from above.

Travel a stretch of historic Route 66 in Arizona and stop for road-trip photographs around Seligman. Take in the roadside character of a town closely associated with the preservation of the old highway.

Once a major route between Chicago and Los Angeles, Route 66 became an emblem of American car travel. The stop gives that history a tangible setting, with signs and streetscapes that recall the era of cross-country motoring.

See the Las Vegas Strip on an arrival drive and stop for a photograph at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. The resort-lined boulevard introduces the city through its neon, oversized architecture and constant movement.

The sign has welcomed visitors since 1959 and remains one of Las Vegas’s defining images. This included introduction covers the Strip and photo opportunity; any nightclub experience is a separate optional choice.

Spend time at Universal Studios Orlando if you choose a theme-park day, with a provided one-way transfer to help you reach the resort. Explore film-inspired attractions and rides according to the ticket you purchase.

This is an independent, optional park visit rather than an included admission. Tickets are at additional cost and must be pre-purchased independently; they are not supplied on tour. Check your chosen ticket’s park access before making plans.

Visit Graceland, Elvis Presley’s former Memphis home, to explore the place most closely associated with his life away from the stage. An available visit offers a closer look at the singer whose sound helped reshape popular music.

Graceland has become a landmark for fans of rock ’n’ roll and a window into American celebrity culture. This experience is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability.

Step into Sun Studio in Memphis, a recording site associated with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and other pioneers of early rock ’n’ roll. Discover the room where performances helped change the direction of American popular music.

Founded by Sam Phillips, the studio is closely tied to the meeting of blues, country and rhythm and blues sounds. A visit is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability.

Ride an airboat through wetlands near New Orleans for a different perspective on Louisiana’s watery landscape. Travel through swamp habitat and look out for wildlife while experiencing the open air and distinctive sound of the boat.

The wetlands are part of the wider Mississippi River region and offer a natural contrast to the French Quarter’s streets and music. This tour is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability and conditions.

Take an available VIP tour of AT&T Stadium, the Arlington home of the Dallas Cowboys. Go beyond the experience of seeing the stadium from the outside and discover the scale of one of American football’s best-known venues.

Stadium tours offer a sports-focused addition to time in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, with access dependent on operations and the tour offered. This experience is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability.

Take on Amarillo’s Big Texan Steak Challenge if an outsized Texas food tradition appeals to you. The challenge is to finish its famously large steak meal within one hour, turning dinner into a spectacle.

The Big Texan has made the challenge a piece of roadside Americana, as much about the setting and onlookers as the meal itself. Participation is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour; check the challenge’s current terms before taking part.

Rise above Albuquerque on an available hot-air balloon flight and look out across the city and New Mexico landscape. The slow pace of ballooning offers a quiet, elevated way to take in the region’s open spaces.

Albuquerque is internationally known for ballooning, supported by local flying conditions and a long-running balloon culture. The flight is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability and suitable weather.

Try ziplining near Denver for an active experience before leaving Colorado. Clip in and travel along the course, trading a ground-level view for a brief rush above the landscape.

This is an activity-led alternative to sightseeing, with the experience shaped by the course and local conditions. Ziplining is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability, weather and any operator safety requirements.

Explore the Moab area on an available Jeep ride through red-rock country. An off-road outing brings a more active perspective to the sandstone terrain for which this part of Utah is known.

This excursion is an alternative to the included Canyonlands National Park visit offered that afternoon. The Jeep ride is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability and local conditions; choose the experience that best matches your interests.

See Bryce Canyon’s red-rock scenery on horseback during an available riding experience. The slower pace offers a different way to take in the park’s cliffs and hoodoo formations.

Riding adds a hands-on dimension to a landscape otherwise often viewed from overlooks. This experience is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability, weather and the operator’s riding requirements; the general park visit remains included.

Join an available stargazing experience near Bryce Canyon and spend an evening looking up at the night sky with your group. Away from major cities, the setting offers a chance to slow down and appreciate the darkness as part of the landscape.

Bryce Canyon is known for its notably dark skies, making the stars a natural counterpart to its daytime rock formations. The hosted experience is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to weather and availability.

See the Grand Canyon from a helicopter on an available flight above this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The aerial view reveals the breadth of its layered cliffs and the immense scale that can be difficult to grasp from the rim alone.

This flight offers a distinct perspective from the included South Rim sunset visit. It is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability, weather and flight-operating conditions.