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By: Best route from Santa Monica to San Diego? - Pelican Parts Technical BBS

Best route from Santa Monica to San Diego? - Pelican Parts Technical BBS — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:11:24 +0000

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By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:44:32 +0000

What I don’t get is why Amtrak is so expensive. At $34 one-way it makes it really hard for me to justify taking Amtrak from Los Angeles to San Diego, and while Metrolink is cheap, it doesn’t run often enough to be convenient.

By: Parand

Parand — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:02:38 +0000

Curtis,

I’m not sure which train you can take from Sherman Oaks, but if you can find your way to an Amtrak station, you can take the Amtrak all the way to downtown San Diego, which is quite close to the airport. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are shuttles from the train station to the airport, or you might have to take a cab from there.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:25:15 +0000

I am catching a flight out of San Diego in a couple weeks but live in Sherman Oaks (LA Valley). I was thinking about taking the train but am not familiar bc i just moved here. Any info that anyone can give me would be awesome. My email is curtiscardwell@hotmail.com. Thanks in advance.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:02:58 +0000

thanks man

By: Parand

Parand — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:26:36 +0000

I take the 6:46am from Solana Beach, gets to Union Station in LA at 8:50am. You have to figure out how to get to your final destination from Union Station, but there are plenty of buses and the metro (http://www.metro.net/) so it’s doable.

The commute is fairly exhausting if you do it on a regular basis. I did 3 days a week for about a year, so it is doable, and you’ll find plenty of other regular commuters on the train with you, but you should give some serious thought to getting a place in LA and saving yourself the hassle if it’s an option.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:24:19 +0000

Do you still commute between LA and San Diego? I have an internship in LA for the summer (end of may-july) but have an apartment lease in San Diego that I would like to keep for next year. So I am debating whether it would be better to sublet in LA for the summer or to just suck it up and do the amtrak commute. What time do you leave in the morning and what time do you get home?

Thanks for any help. You are one of the few google searches on the subject of a SD-LA commute. I thought there would be more people doing it.

By: Parand

Parand — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:21:17 +0000

Shobhit, I don’t think you’ll need advanced booking unless you’re traveling at a particularly busy time (eg. holidays). You can book in advance if you’d like, but you’ll pick up the tickets in person, meaning you’ll need to go to the booth anyway. You don’t get assigned seats.

In every car there are several 4-seat arrangements reserved for families; in the unlikely event you don’t find seats next to each other you can ask the people sitting in those seats to move.

By: Shobhit

Shobhit — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:55:23 +0000

I plan to do a Friday afternoon/evening trip with family from San Diego to Laguna Nigel. Does it make sense to do an advanced booking? with advance booking, do they let you choose seats too, to make sure we get together seats.

By: kathy Olsen

kathy Olsen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:54:35 +0000

I need to know where i catch the amtrak close to studio city to get to Sandiego? How far is the gaslamp distric to where you get off in sandiego?
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