Planning a trip for May next year which looks like involving a 10hr layover in LAX.

Arriving at 5am from Maui, and then leaving at 3pm to London.

No idea what to do, have no status with BA so won't be able to get into a Lounge, and it's too early to do one of the layover tours offered by tour companies.

Will be exhausted, and don't want to be renting a car and trying to drive in LAX (we are in mid-20s, neither of us driven in states, or even driven automatics and I don't think LAX is really the place to start!). Plus its so early in the morning even if we were up for doing that I still wouldn't know what to do!

Any thoughts? Its a pretty sucky way to end the trip but not really got any other options. I thought about trying to book a hotel to grab a sleep for a few hours but then they probably wouldn't let us check in at 6am.

I did think after reading through this thread to maybe get a cab to Manhatten Beach, maybe grab a nice breakfast and have a wander and get a taxi back to the airport about noon, but will anything be open?

The other problem is that although we are flying in with AA and out with BA, I don't think we'll be able to check our bags through as the it's too long a connection time?

I suppose another option would be to pay a day rate for the AA lounge when we get off, or for the reLAX lounge in the Int'l Terminal (probably the former as it has showers)?