Los Angeles Intl Airport Hotels

LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT –LAX

Website: www.lawa.org

Address: 1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Phone: (310) 646-5252

Situated in southwestern Los Angeles along the Pacific Coast and only 15 miles from Downtown Los Angeles, LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States.

The airport serves as a hub for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air and Great Lakes Airline and has nine passenger terminals all connected by a U- shaped two level roadway.

Being served by a shuttle-bus and connected either by airside walking corridors or by airside underground walkways, the terminals are situated west of the intersection between Century Boulevard and

The Tom Bradley Terminal –TBIT- is the main terminal with 18 gates offering some extra services such as a first aid station or even a direct telephone line for booking hotels and cars.

Actually, each terminal offers a variety of services, ensuring the travelers are spending quality time before boarding their flights, but what you need to remember is that every terminal has a food court before the security check. Speaking of good services here are some of them: restaurants – Karl Strauss Microbrewery, Starbucks, Wolfgang Puck Express, McDonald's, La Brea Bakery and Baja Fresh Express, lounges – most of them accessible only for business and first class but also can be paid for, shops like Jetway Booksellers, The Body Shop, Caterina's, Hudson News, duty frees and if you travel with your kids make sure they will visit the Flight Path Museum located alongside the main terminal.

If you’re talking business, don’t worry, most of the facilities you are looking for are in the TBIT- cell phone rentals, fax and photocopy service and even wireless internet – available for $ 6 the first hour and 10 cents a minute after that or $9.99 for a 24 hour day pass. Although the airport has no public showers or change facility, the passengers eager to freshen up can still use the lounges or, in exchange of a nominal fee, use the nearby hotels gym and changing rooms.

In terms of accommodation hotels such as Embassy Suits, Crowne Plaza or Holiday Inn are within minutes from the airport and offer comfort, convenience and some of them even free rides to the airport.

While the airport doesn’t provide luggage lockers or storage facilities there is a way for you to get your luggage back directly to your terminal at a pre-arranged time and all this is possible thanks to the LAX Luggage Storage company.