All European and many domestic
flights
use Los Angeles International
Airport - always known as
LAX
(tel 310/646-5252, ) - sixteen
miles southwest of downtown. Free
24-hour
shuttle buses (line
"C") connect with the
LAX Transit Center at Vicksburg
Avenue and 96th Street, where you
can pick up
local buses .
Minibuses such as LAX Chequer
Shuttle (tel 1-800/545-7745, ),
SuperShuttle (tel 310/782-6600 or
1-800/554-3146, ) and Coast
Shuttle (tel 310/417-3988) run all
over town, delivering you to your
door. Fares are generally around
$20-30 (plus tip), with a journey
time of between 30 and 45 minutes.
Taxis from the airport are
always expensive: around $25 to
downtown and West LA, $30 to
Hollywood and as much as $90 to
Disneyland.
If you're arriving from
elsewhere in the US, or from
Mexico, you might just land at one
of the other airports in
the LA area - at Burbank, Long
Beach, Ontario, or Orange County's
John Wayne Airport. MTA buses (tel
213/626-4455 or 1-800/COMMUTE,
outside LA tel 1-800/2-LARIDE, )
serve them all - phone on arrival
and tell them where you are and
where you're going.
The main Greyhound bus
terminal, at 1716 E Seventh St (tel
213/629-8401, ), is in a seedy
section of downtown, but access is
restricted to ticket holders so
it's safe enough inside. LA's
other Greyhound stations handle
fewer services: 1409 Vine St, in
Hollywood; 11239 Magnolia Blvd,
North Hollywood; 645 E Walnut St,
Pasadena; 464 W 3rd St, Long
Beach; and 100 W Winston Rd,
Anaheim.
Arriving in LA by train
you'll be greeted with the Mission
Revival architecture of Union
Station, 800 N Alameda St (tel
213/624-0171), on the north side
of downtown, from which you can
also access the city's MTA bus
lines.
