{"id":20355,"date":"2015-05-20T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20355"},"modified":"2015-05-20T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:10:07","slug":"travel-up-gas-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/travel-up-gas-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Up, Gas Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bacarn.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At Bacara Resort where aquamarine swimming pools overlooking the blue Pacific\u00a0in Santa Barbara a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arestravel.com\/5454_hotel-info_h4160.html\">Garden View Room<\/a>\u00a0on Memorial Weekend Friday costs\u00a0approx. $600, parking, taxes and resort fees included. \u00a0Santa Barbara ranks as the 2nd most expensive holiday destination in the U.S. And, if you plan to hit the road gas prices in California are often above $4\/ gallon. For the 12th consecutive week, California leads the nation paying\u00a0an average\u00a0of\u00a0more than $1 per gallon above\u00a0other states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Memorial Week 2015 Travel Stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>37.2 million Americans (less than 9%) take a trip 50 miles or more from home by car, train or air<\/li>\n<li>4.7% increase year over year &#8212;\u00a02015 sees most Memorial Weekend travelers in a decade<\/li>\n<li>2 out of 5 star\u00a0hotel averages $144 night;\u00a03 star\u00a0=\u00a0$182 night<\/li>\n<li>Most affordable cities to visit: Las Vegas, then\u00a0Jacksonville, Fla. followed by Orlando, Kansas City and Detroit<\/li>\n<li>Most expensive vacation destinations: New York City, followed by California&#8217;s Santa Barbara, San Francisco and 8th most expensive &#8211; Los Angeles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Bacara Resort where aquamarine swimming pools overlooking the blue Pacific\u00a0in Santa Barbara a\u00a0Garden View Room\u00a0on Memorial Weekend Friday costs\u00a0approx. $600, parking, taxes and resort fees included. \u00a0Santa Barbara ranks as the 2nd most expensive holiday destination in the U.S. And, if you plan to hit the road gas prices in California are often above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}