All European and many domestic flights use Los Angeles International Airport - always known as LAX (phone 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 (phone 1-800/545-7745, ), SuperShuttle (phone 310/782-6600 or 1-800/554-3146, ) and Coast Shuttle (phone 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.

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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 (Ph 213/626-4455 or 1-800/COMMUTE, outside LA phone 1-800/2-LARIDE, ) sere 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 (ph213/629-8401, ), 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 Reial architecture of Union Station, 800 N Alameda St (ph213/624-0171), on the north side of downtown, from which you can also access the city's MTA bus lines.

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