To Rent, or Not to Rent

[fairyrune]

Have any of you been to Los Angeles? If so, I have a question for you.

Should we rent a car?

I have a book that's telling me the public transportation in the area sucks pretty hardcore. However, the husband of the friend we're staying with doesn't own a car, and gets around solely with public transportation. I'm not entirely certain where they live, so that doesn't help. They have to work during the week we're there, so they won't be available all the time to hold our hands and show us around. I was thinking maybe we should get a car with a GPS device.

The problem with renting a car is that I am under twenty five, so if I rented it there would be some ASTRONOMICAL surcharge. Rich doesn't have a credit card, so he can't rent the car, even though he is over twenty five. I called Enterprise and asked if I could pay and he could drive, and was told that wasn't possible.

I've never been there myself, obviously, and I don't know whether to believe the book, or the fellow we haven't met yet. He's probably not going to places like Disneyland or the tourist-y spots all the time.

Any advice?

Comments

[mrod42.livejournal.com]

as long as you dont plan on leaving downtown LA you can take a cab anywhere you want...if you want to go check out hollywood or beverly hills then you can take a bus in for the day as a cab would prolly be a little pricey due to sitting in insane traffic. downtown isnt HUGE like midtown NYC, but the whole area including hollywood and beveraly hills and the beaches are pretty big however if you want to leave LA then you must have a rental, the traffic in the LA area is no joke, and traffic jams are nearly and hourly not daily experience.

hope this helps.

[mrod42.livejournal.com]

p.s after the third day youll notice it might hurt to breathe a bit (esp. if you are a non smoker) dont be alarmed its just the smog!, last time i was in LA you could not see the hollywood hills (which surround the city more or less which is why they have smog, it has no where to go) when i landed... wasnt till two days later i saw the hills, which we here in jersey would call mountains.