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John Cletheroe's
USA and Canada Holiday Hints |
We spent four weeks touring southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, southern Utah, and the southernmost tip of Nevada.
The following costs are for the four weeks, for three adults. Where relevant all the costs are for all three of us combined, NOT per person. Please bear in mind that your costs in the USA may vary considerably depending on your lifestyle.
Airport tax (UK£73.70 each) UK£221.10
Car (I4 grade for four weeks including CDW/LDW, state tax and Top-Up insurance) (UK£193.00 per week) UK£772.00
Insurance (UK£39.60 each) UK£118.80
Because we booked directly with Holiday-America, we received a 10% discount on the airfare. The above costs are the figures after that discount was applied, in other words what we actually paid.
The highest we paid was US$110 per night (approximately equivalent to UK£78.29) at an independent motel in Indio, California. The lowest we paid was US$35.84 per night (approximately equivalent to UK£25.51) at an independent motel in Cortez, Colorado. These rates include all taxes.
We used Motel 6 for eighteen nights, Super 8 for one night and independent motels for nine nights.
We drove 6514 miles in four weeks.
The average petrol consumption was approximately 32 miles per US gallon.
We purchased 204 US gallons of petrol for a total cost of US$322, giving an average cost of US$1.58 per US gallon. Prices varied from US$1.31 per US gallon in Anthony, New Mexico to US$1.96 per US gallon in Needles, California.
The overall average cost of petrol was equivalent to approximately UK£0.28 per litre. This compares with a petrol price in England of about UK£0.73 per litre at the time.
Remember that these petrol prices were recorded in April 2001 and will very quickly become out of date. In addition there is very considerable variation in petrol prices from state to state, within each state, and to a lesser extent from one petrol station to another within each town.
Petrol (gas) price conversion charts
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