PAYLESS Car Rental at LAX Airport

It is always cheaper and far more convenient to reserve car rental in advance of arriving at the airport, where queues at the car rental desks often turn a fairly straight-forward process into a long, frustrating wait.

Payless car hire at Los Angeles Airport accepts booking requests online at the company's website www.paylesscar.com and over the telephone at tel +USA (310) 645 2100, a number arriving air travelers without a car hire reservation can contact from the free telephones provided in the interactive Visitors Information Centers (VIC's). These telephones can be accessed in the area where the baggage reclaim islands are situated, namely on the Lower Level in the Arrivals Halls at each of the nine passenger terminals.

From the free telephones customers can request their Payless courtesy shuttle pick-up to Parking Lot C, where all car rental offices are located. At the office customers will receive their documents and car keys and be shown to their selected car.

Payless is one of the car rental providers at LAX Airport that are permitted to collect arriving customers from the designated collection point underneath the purple sign "Rental Car Shuttles", which can be found on the Lower Level in the Arrivals Island, where passengers retrieve their luggage.

In Downtown LA the sheer number of museums and galleries with amazing art collections can be rather overwhelming. There are the collections held on Museum Row on the Miracle Mile, where the Los Angeles County Museum of Art can be found as well as the Petersen Automotive Museum and the Craft and Folk Art Museum or the Westside museums which include the famous art collection at the Getty Center Museum, the Museum of Tolerance and the Fowler and Hammer Museums at UCLA.

In Pasadena, an 11 mile drive out of "town", there are the Pacific Asia Museum, the Pasadena Museum of History and the Huntingdon to name but a few.

In the Griffith Park area visitors can marvel at the Griffith Observatory, a famous location used in many Hollywood movies and TV series, while at Long Beach and South Bay there are the natural history splendours of the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium as well as the collections of the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Los Angeles Maritime Museum to keep holidaymakers of all ages occupied for hours at a time.

Pasadena is located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, a short 11-mile journey northeast of Downtown LA. On New Year's Day the city is transformed with the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game, but at Christmas Pasadena really comes into its own - people fill the streets to decorate the many floats passing by in the parades and the atmosphere is quite magical.

There are no fewer than 500 restaurants to discover, not to mention more than 200 chic boutiques selling fashion and accessories. Hiring a car from Payless car hire makes sense for serious shoppers - the boot of a car can hold far more shopping bags than a tired tourist trailing around the main attractions!

The Economy range from Payless Los Angeles Airport includes easy-to-drive cars like the Toyota Yaris, which can seat 4 passengers and accommodate 3 pieces of medium sized luggage. In the Compact class at Payless there are choices like the popular Ford Fiesta, which seats 4 passengers and has space for 1 large and 2 smaller pieces of luggage.

Midsize cars include the Nissan Sentra, a car with seating for 5 passengers and room in the boot for 1 large suitcase and 2 smaller pieces of luggage. Full-size cars from Payless can transport 5 passengers and 2 large suitcases plus 3 smaller piece of luggage. This range includes vehicles like the Hyundai Sonata.

For a trip to the San Gabriel Mountains a sturdy SUV might be better - Payless Los Angeles have a choice of vehicles like the Nissan XTerra or the Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, which seats 5 passengers and has room for 4 large suitcases.

For more information about Payless car hire in Los Angeles, please visit the company's website at www.paylesscar.com.