Pacific Coast Highway

Five hundred and seventy-five miles of coast over fourteen nights, San Francisco to San Diego, which is the whole of Highway 1 done at a pace that lets you stop. Flights, car and hotels are arranged together from the UK with a road book to drive it from.

Three nights in San Francisco come first, then two at Carmel-by-the-Sea with the 17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach and the Point Lobos marine reserve on the headland. Big Sur follows, the hundred miles of cliff road everyone comes for, with Hearst Castle above it. Then Santa Barbara, where the Funk Zone’s tasting rooms sit a few streets back from the beach and the botanic gardens climb into the hills.

Three nights in Los Angeles cover Santa Monica and Venice, Hollywood, the Getty and Griffith Observatory. The last week is quieter: two nights at Laguna Beach with the coves at Crystal Cove State Park between Newport and Laguna, then two in San Diego for Balboa Park, Coronado and the old quarter.

This is the only page in their range whose published mileage matches its own daily figures exactly, which tells you the route has been driven rather than assembled. Six of the seven stops last two nights or three, so the driving days are short and well spaced. The operator calls it a trip for any time of year. Everything is tailorable and departures are arranged around your dates. It suits anyone who wants the single most famous coast road in America without a schedule that makes them hurry past it.