What are the best days to travel around Thanksgiving (US)?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 3 Aug, 2023
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Your best bet is to travel on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday) — the airports won’t be too crowded then, and fares are usually substantially cheaper. Tuesday might also be a cheap day, but try to avoid Wednesday at all costs — it is one of the busiest travel days of the year in the US, if not the most.
Since most people are traveling home to be with their families, good hotel deals should be much easier to find in Las Vegas than LA or SF.
In most US cities, things will be pretty dead on Thanksgiving Day. Most stores and restaurants close early if they open at all, although I know from family traditions that movie theaters are open (and popular) after the early Thanksgiving Day feast. Just about everything is open extremely early (~5 AM in many cases) the next day for Black Friday, the most popular shopping day of the year. Avoid the stores on that day, unless you’re looking to score some really cheap deals or you’re the kind of person that likes to witness complete chaos firsthand.
And if you do somehow manage to arrive by Wednesday evening, that is a great “going-out” night as everyone hits the bars to let off steam before dealing with their families for the next four days.
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