Golden Princes Cruises Answers

Try the Hertz rental co at Lomita - 310-891-3061 or email them at Lomita-CAHLEWER@Hertz.com They should be able to help you. Enterprise car rental is right close to the port at the Doubleday Hotel, but they have hefty drop-off fees and have seen lots of negatives reports re their service. Lomita is just a few minutes up the road... Mapquest shows it as 6 miles away from the port. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1a=1939+Pacific+Coast+Highway&1c=Lomita&1s=CA&1z=90717&cid=lfddlink&form=directions

Thanks to all that have replied, I've emailed princess and they've confirmed that there will be disembarkation tours available, but they can't tell me what or how much etc etc......... I'd still prefer to hire a car, but still can't get anything from port to lax or that do the drop off, the best I've been offered is a company in lomita and they've given me instructions on how to catch a bus from the port to their office which will take 50 mins. So I'm thinking maybe a taxi to a hotel with a day room, although this will be way more expensive than the car hire...........I can't believe I'm finding it so difficult to hire a car.........Im sure I must be doing something wrong....... None of the companies seem to be very helpful, maybe because it's a short rental and not a longer booking.

Why not find a nice hotel and ask for a day room. You can drop your bags off chill out, have a walk around/find a nice beach, freshen up in your room then head for the airport. Alternatively why not sort out your own tour. Check out whats available, tailor it to suit yourself then get online and find a company willing to give you a tour (explain that you will need a car big enough to accommodate all the luggage too and get yourself a driver and take away all the strain and worry. They can then drop you off at the airport at your designated time at the end of the tour.

We wondered the same thing when flying back at 8pm from Miami - no departure day excursions were listed on the Princess website. BUT once on the ship, when they sent the form asking about our arrangements on that day, a list of trips was attached, all offering something to do in the day and a transfer to the airport when you'd finished. I gather they do this on most of their cruises - why they don't put them on the site itself I really can't imagine; it would save a lot of worry Cheers, Lynn

Have a look at the Cruise Critic website. Click on Boards- then North American Homeports, then West Coast departures. There are pages of threads with questions like yours, answered by locals... it's a great resource

Lots of hotels book rooms for the day, relax and do a bit of sightseeing.

I'm not sure why the sleepless nights, it took me all of 5 minutes to find at least 10 major hire companies from San Pedro with a meet & greet and a drop off at LAX with prices from $18.........Just Google car rental San Pedro to LAX