I've just inserted lots of photos into all the previous postings and adjusted some of the text (so you might want to read them again! :-)
I fly to San Francisco tomorrow, concluding my first ever visit to Los Angeles.
In many ways, it's a lot different to what I expected. One thing that was as expected was the traffic congestion. Even with
the coned off lanes for most of the route from Union Station to the
stadium, it still takes 20-25 minutes with all the jostling to get into
the actual stadium car parks on the way there, and longer to get out
again as everybody's leaving at the same time. The traffic from the
airport when I arrived last Saturday was heavy too.
The public transport in LA is far more comprehensive than I had believed. For example, you can get from anywhere on the LA Metro system to the games at Dodger Stadium for $1.75 (each way) However, the whole of Anaheim seems to revolve around Disneyland. Almost every route leads there, and all the ART buses terminate there. Far fewer people go to Angels games on the public transport though, probably due to its infrequency and overcrowdedness. However, some people seem to come by train to the ARTIC station from down San Diego way even.
When I next visit Los Angeles, I would do the same split between LA and Anaheim again - they are just too far apart to contemplate staying in one of the other (or half-way). I would certainly visit Anaheim again, and would set aside a day to actually go to Disneyland. I would probably not stay in a downtown LA hotel like where I am (Courtyard LA @ LA Live) because it is 15 minutes walk from the nearest metro station. Apart from the number of nearby restaurants, there's no need to be at LA Live at all, and with the metro running so frequently, anywhere that is metro accessible with reasonable travel times to Union Station would do. I'd visit the beach and perhaps some more of Hollywood, as I only spent a few hours at Universal Studios this time.
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