Talk:Los Angeles International Airport

Food

I found the dining options at LAX to be rather disappointing. We saw lots of airside options but had to go groundside to get our luggage; after doing so, we asked at the information desk where we could get food, and her only suggestion was Encounter. Encounter was an experience to be sure, but it was awfully expensive for weary travelers who just wanted a bite to eat.

On the other hand, I don't want to get too negative by adding this info to the article if our experience was atypical. Maybe we just came in to the one terminal that didn't have groundside food options? I wish I'd known the International terminal had food groundside, but then that would have been a heck of a hike from Terminal 7 (?) with our luggage. Lugging it to Encounter was bad enough.

-- LtPowers (talk) 01:49, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

The lack of groundside options is definitely worth mentioning and I believe that holds true for at least terminals 1, 7 and 8. Airside options vary greatly from terminal to terminal and will be changing frequently in the coming months since there is a lot of renovation as part of a multi-billion dollar improvement project, with lots of decent food options opening. -- Ryan • (talk) • 02:03, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Sleep

What's the policy on sleep listings? Is it OK to list every hotel that has its own shuttle to and from the airport? I thought the policy was to list _only_ the hotels actually _on the grounds of_ the airport. Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:50, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

There was a long discussion on this (as I placed a number of hotels on the Frankfurt airport page that where in other locations but with shuttle buses). The decision was that only hotels on site should be listed in the page but in the sleep section of the airport page should be links to neighborhoods and towns in the area with hotels that have shuttles to the airport. In the case of LAX the hotels along Century and Airport Boulevard are very close to the airport but I think they should be listed in the city pages of Westchester and Inglewood (which currently do not exist).--Traveler100 (talk) 06:40, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. Even in towns without a huge airport, you can have dozens and dozens of hotels with shuttles (some of them up to twenty minutes away by car). The only hotels listed on airport pages should be on-site hotels. LtPowers (talk) 14:24, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

The problem with this is that it leads to the creation of articles on Kelsterbach and other places that effectively serve as bedroom suburbs (or rather "hotel suburbs") of the airport, which would not otherwise deserve an article and don't have much to offer besides airport oriented sleeping options. Much like the whole town of Hahn ;-) Hobbitschuster (talk) 08:07, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Alternative banner for this article?

Banner currently used in this article

Suggested new alternative banner

I created a new alternative banner for this article (I initially created it first and foremost so that it would be used at the top of the parallel article in the Hebrew edition of Wikivoyage, yet I later decided to also suggest that the English Wikivoyage community would consider using it here as well). So, which banner do you prefer having at the top of this article? ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 04:41, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm undecided, on the one hand the new banner features the structure LAX is most known for, on the other hand, the former isn't a bad image either and it features the IATA code which is one of the common names of the airport... Hobbitschuster (talk) 08:05, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

I like the new banner better. It's a nicer image. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:33, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Showing the "UFO" restaurant is a good idea but I find the lighting around the runway and aircraft a little dark. --Traveler100 (talk) 08:53, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Out of the airport banners you proposed, this one is the best, although perhaps a bit of a side effect of applying the same stencil to every airport around and finding a nicely-framed picture to begin with. I believe the current banner is creative and nice and do not see it as a necessity to replace it. There are many other airports who have awful banners or no banners at all. PrinceGloria (talk) 14:06, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

I myself always prefer to have banners of the actual place the article is about, instead of signs (unless the sign is more iconic than the actual place). ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 14:08, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

We have as much place as we need for any amount of images, so I do not think it is necessary for the image to be an overview of the place. Plus that objective can be hard to meet given the 7:1 format. I'd go for the most striking, creative and expressive banner rather than a "descriptive" one. Let us make WV visually attractive and interesting! PrinceGloria (talk) 14:10, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Current. More stylish Syced (talk) 07:56, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

I am not sure what the majority opinion is here as some have not indicated clearly which option they prefer. ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 02:47, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

We don't operate on majority opinion, we operate on consensus. And judging from this discussion, it doesn't look like much of a consensus was reached, which on Wikivoyage generally means no change goes into effect (see Status quo bias). PerryPlanet (talk) 13:55, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

I am in favor of showing the structure LAX is famous for, but with better lighting overall Hobbitschuster (talk) 14:29, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Removing useless rental car listings

After raising a short discussion at Wikivoyage talk:Airport Expedition#Rental car listings to confirm what the policy is, I'm going to remove all of the rental car company listings from this page. The current list is 23 companies (much longer than allowed by WV policies), which are mostly national chains, and a few regional or local ones thrown in with no distinction. The advice to "search online" is useless; if people are going to do that, there's no need for us to list out these easily-found companies.

What we do need is listings for unusual rentals, such as the "luxury cars, sports cars, jeeps or vans" that the article mentions. I can come up with a few from a quick search, but someone more familiar with the area should chime in with recommendations. --Bigpeteb (talk) 17:16, 28 March 2018 (UTC)