Where to Use Points at LAX Overnight?
May 10, 2002 | 11:10 am
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Where to Use Points at LAX Overnight?
Spending one night in Los Angeles at airport. Will be returning from Hawaii with husband and teenage son. 15,000 points for LA Airport Marriott, Courtyard Los Angeles LAX/Century Blvd. and Residence Inn El Segundo. We want a ride to and from, since we will only be resting from 8 days on the islands before the rest of the trip to BOS. Anybody got any ideas. I have lots of points in Hilton Honors also.
May 10, 2002 | 11:20 am
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Check out Manhattan Beach.
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May 10, 2002 | 12:14 pm
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Manhattan Beach Marriott is nice, 2 miles from the beach, also has plenty of places to go right within walking distance, a golf course in its back yard, and five miles south of LAX. Call for the shuttle, I'm not sure about it. I've always driven or had a ride there.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bdschobel:
Check out Manhattan Beach.
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Check out Manhattan Beach.
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May 10, 2002 | 12:58 pm
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...another vote for Manhattan Beach. Too bad you aren't single. At least your son will enjoy it...
May 10, 2002 | 1:21 pm
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Just stayed at the Residence Inn El Segundo. Newer property, free high speed internet that actually works, decent breakfast. Also like Manhattan Beach Marriott, so usually decide based on price.
May 10, 2002 | 8:24 pm
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The Renaissance at the airport down the street from the Marriott is very comfortable for an overnite!
May 10, 2002 | 10:07 pm
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It's nice when you have a choice of positives.
With the teenager, the RI might be nice - more privacy for all. (Can't help with personal experience of this one, though.)
The Manhattan Beach is OK. We've actually used it on a stopover from HNL before. There's a shuttle, but it seemed a very long ride, as tired as we were. (I'd also think about the shuttle ride back to the airport if you have an early flight.) There are umpty restaurants within a few blocks - many higher end chains (Wolfgang Puck's, McCormick & Schmick's, etc) - but we found such long waits at them ALL when we wanted to eat that we finally gave up and ate at the hotel (uninspired but edible, it was, and fairly cheap, too).
We've stayed at the LAX Marriott many times. I think it's OK. We've often copped a suite upgrade there - if you're a PM and in for just one night, no matter how cheap your rate, there seems to be a good chance. They also have scattered "executive" rooms that are very large and would fit 3 comfortably. Once or twice when we've been in one of those exec. rooms, we've had to go back to the desk and get our key "fixed" for the Concierge Lounge floor, but that's about the extent of the problems we've ever had at that hotel.
It is a big impersonal hotel, and if you don't have Gold or Platinum status, I dunno how it would be.
We've also stayed at the Hilton, although not since I've had status with them. It was OK, but we found their restaurant to be not a bit better than the Marriott's, food-wise, worse for service, and pricier, comparing the Hilton cheaper restaurant to the Marriott's cheaper restaurant.
*IDEA* My favorite place to go around LAX is the wonderful "theme restaurant" in the famous central airport building - the Jetsons one. (I'm told that Flyertalk's own PremEx had a hand some of the new design, btw.) This place is TOO wonderful. If you haven't been, you really shouldn't miss the chance to go.
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With the teenager, the RI might be nice - more privacy for all. (Can't help with personal experience of this one, though.)
The Manhattan Beach is OK. We've actually used it on a stopover from HNL before. There's a shuttle, but it seemed a very long ride, as tired as we were. (I'd also think about the shuttle ride back to the airport if you have an early flight.) There are umpty restaurants within a few blocks - many higher end chains (Wolfgang Puck's, McCormick & Schmick's, etc) - but we found such long waits at them ALL when we wanted to eat that we finally gave up and ate at the hotel (uninspired but edible, it was, and fairly cheap, too).
We've stayed at the LAX Marriott many times. I think it's OK. We've often copped a suite upgrade there - if you're a PM and in for just one night, no matter how cheap your rate, there seems to be a good chance. They also have scattered "executive" rooms that are very large and would fit 3 comfortably. Once or twice when we've been in one of those exec. rooms, we've had to go back to the desk and get our key "fixed" for the Concierge Lounge floor, but that's about the extent of the problems we've ever had at that hotel.
It is a big impersonal hotel, and if you don't have Gold or Platinum status, I dunno how it would be.
We've also stayed at the Hilton, although not since I've had status with them. It was OK, but we found their restaurant to be not a bit better than the Marriott's, food-wise, worse for service, and pricier, comparing the Hilton cheaper restaurant to the Marriott's cheaper restaurant.
*IDEA* My favorite place to go around LAX is the wonderful "theme restaurant" in the famous central airport building - the Jetsons one. (I'm told that Flyertalk's own PremEx had a hand some of the new design, btw.) This place is TOO wonderful. If you haven't been, you really shouldn't miss the chance to go.
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May 11, 2002 | 4:44 am
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I agree about the restaurant, which is called "Encounter." I eat there quite often when I have a redeye flight from LAX to NYC. An 8 p.m. dinner reservation is just about perfect. Check in first at the airline terminal, then walk over to the Theme Building, eat dinner, fly home.
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