Originally Posted by
opalfruit
I know you've said you don't want to drive - and it is a long way (about 10 hours straight driving) - but the drive through Yosemite and Death Valley from the coast down to Vegas is abso-flipping-lutely incredible. Well worth a couple of days, stopping along the way.
Just putting that out there...
When we flew to SFO, we found the US Air connection quite convenient to LAS and was only $100.
For travelling back to SFO, we flew LAS-MCE on a little Beech 1900. Was a fab flight and we landed at the tiny Merced airport which has a bag scanner, a coke machine and an Avis desk. The pilot gets off the aircraft to get your bag out and drops it at the front of the airport
I think the service is run by Great Lakes Airlines, it was a United codeshared flight when we did it.
http://www.greatlakesav.com/
We then spent 4 days in Yosemite, and then drove to San Francisco. The drive is pretty spectacular.