The rambling metropolis of
LOS ANGELES
sprawls across the thousand square miles of a great desert basin, knitted together by an intricate network of congested freeways between the ocean and the snowcapped mountains. Its colorful melange of shopping malls, palm trees and swimming pools is both mildly surreal and startlingly familiar, thanks to the celluloid self-image that it has spread all over the world.
Arrival And Information :
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.
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Call toll free..
US and Canada: 1-800-780-5733
Europe: 00-800-11-20-11-40
Use discount code: 89865
