Brits seeking advice for USA trip

Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A. for a couple
of
weeks this summer with my best friend. We were thinking about grabbing
a
cheap hotel around town, taking in the sun, the sites, heading to the
beaches, and enjoying a little bit of the night life.
However as much as I'm looking forward to it, the more I've
started
researching, the more I'm starting to wonder if this is all such a
good idea
as neither of us drive and therefore don't plan on hiring a car - and
it
sounds like in the US there is much more of an emphasis on driving
than
public transport? In London you can live quite easily with just using
buses,
trains and the subway, but I'm wondering if that's possible (and safe)
in
LA. So any tips or advice along those lines would very helpful,
including
suggestions for places to stay around town that could cut down our
travel
issues, while still being in nice parts of town.
Additionally, how feasible in that part of the country is it to
take the
odd day excursion out of the city by train or coach and explore some
of the
quieter surrounding areas (providing there's stuff worth seeing)? For
instance just grabbing a train down the coast for a change of scenary,
that
sort of thing?
Any advice, tips, places to stay and most importantly places to
definitely avoid would be really useful.

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.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A.
for a couple of weeks this summer with my best friend. We
were thinking about grabbing a cheap hotel around town,
taking in the sun, the sites, heading to the beaches, and enjoying
a little bit of the night life. However as much as I'm looking
forward to it, the more I've started researching, the more I'm
starting to wonder if this is all such a good idea as neither of us
drive and therefore don't plan on hiring a car - and it sounds
like in the US there is much more of an emphasis on driving
than public transport?

If you are going to rely on public transit for getting around, seeing
sights and excursions, you will find it very difficult in LA. Also,
if you a spending a couple of weeks, you will quickly run out of
sights to see in L.A. and be disappointed. You need to go to a
city where public transit is more available and there are a greater
variety of stuff to do, i.e. San Francisco, New York, Washington,
D.C., perhaps San Diego.

.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A.
for a couple of weeks this summer with my best friend. We
were thinking about grabbing a cheap hotel around town,
taking in the sun, the sites, heading to the beaches, and enjoying
a little bit of the night life. However as much as I'm looking
forward to it, the more I've started researching, the more I'm
starting to wonder if this is all such a good idea as neither of us
drive and therefore don't plan on hiring a car - and it sounds
like in the US there is much more of an emphasis on driving
than public transport?

If you are going to rely on public transit for getting around, seeing
sights and excursions, you will find it very difficult in LA. Also,
if you a spending a couple of weeks, you will quickly run out of
sights to see in L.A. and be disappointed. You need to go to a
city where public transit is more available and there are a greater
variety of stuff to do, i.e. San Francisco, New York, Washington,
D.C., perhaps San Diego.

.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A.
for a couple of weeks this summer with my best friend. We
were thinking about grabbing a cheap hotel around town,
taking in the sun, the sites, heading to the beaches, and enjoying
a little bit of the night life. However as much as I'm looking
forward to it, the more I've started researching, the more I'm
starting to wonder if this is all such a good idea as neither of us
drive and therefore don't plan on hiring a car - and it sounds
like in the US there is much more of an emphasis on driving
than public transport?

If you are going to rely on public transit for getting around, seeing
sights and excursions, you will find it very difficult in LA. Also,
if you a spending a couple of weeks, you will quickly run out of
sights to see in L.A. and be disappointed. You need to go to a
city where public transit is more available and there are a greater
variety of stuff to do, i.e. San Francisco, New York, Washington,
D.C., perhaps San Diego.

.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A.
for a couple of weeks this summer with my best friend. We
were thinking about grabbing a cheap hotel around town,
taking in the sun, the sites, heading to the beaches, and enjoying
a little bit of the night life. However as much as I'm looking
forward to it, the more I've started researching, the more I'm
starting to wonder if this is all such a good idea as neither of us
drive and therefore don't plan on hiring a car - and it sounds
like in the US there is much more of an emphasis on driving
than public transport?

If you are going to rely on public transit for getting around, seeing
sights and excursions, you will find it very difficult in LA. Also,
if you a spending a couple of weeks, you will quickly run out of
sights to see in L.A. and be disappointed. You need to go to a
city where public transit is more available and there are a greater
variety of stuff to do, i.e. San Francisco, New York, Washington,
D.C., perhaps San Diego.

.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote in message
...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A. for a couple
of

Judging by the number of your postings today you are
either host to multiple personalities or a **** poor troll.

PS nobody in London refers to 'the subway'
Do try and learn the lingo at least.

Keith

.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote in message
...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A. for a couple
of

Judging by the number of your postings today you are
either host to multiple personalities or a **** poor troll.

PS nobody in London refers to 'the subway'
Do try and learn the lingo at least.

Keith

.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote in message
...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A. for a couple
of

Judging by the number of your postings today you are
either host to multiple personalities or a **** poor troll.

PS nobody in London refers to 'the subway'
Do try and learn the lingo at least.

Keith

.no-spam.invalid (Anonymous) wrote in message
...
Hi, I'm a 23 year old from London looking to go to L.A. for a couple
of

Judging by the number of your postings today you are
either host to multiple personalities or a **** poor troll.

PS nobody in London refers to 'the subway'
Do try and learn the lingo at least.

Keith

Keith Willshaw:
Judging by the number of your postings today you are
either host to multiple personalities or a **** poor troll.

They're old postings, actually, with the original headers removed.
Probably some sort of accident.
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