The United States is well known for being a land of promise, and it rarely disappoints. This is a country of road trips, wide open skies, but also mountain peaks, a place to watch massive breakers crash on to the shore, or marvel at rolling vineyards or massive redwood trees.

If it’s urban America you want to visit on USA holidays, take your pick from city breaks to dazzling, bewitching New York or the skyscrapers of Chicago. Or be charmed by the French quarter in New Orleans or impressed by San Francisco’s waterfront. Perhaps you’d prefer to take a gamble on Las Vegas? USA holidays really can be whatever you want them to be.

In this cultural melting pot of a nation, you can take your pick of more than 50 states and two oceans with an awful lot in between. On the East grab a city break to New York or visit Boston and Vermont and New England. In Florida, take in Walt Disney World or SeaWorld, the Kennedy Space Centre or the Everglades National Park – to name just a few of the attractions in this part of the world. For the even mildly star-struck, there’s no place like Hollywood, with its iconic Walk of Fame and the fascinating Universal Studios.