San Pedro Cruise Terminal to Union Station

[camant]

Hi everyone, looking for some help/advice please. Docking At San Pedro Cruise terminal on NCL Star on 01 March 2015 and need to get to Union Station for onward Amtrak Train to San Diego departing at 15.00hrs. I have been told about Amtrak thruway connecting service. Do the buses run regularly on a Sunday and is it far from where we dock to the bus stop?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Eris]

The thruway buses are reserved tickets- not a wait-at-the-bus-stop and get on the next one thing. It looks like on March 1 you could get on a 9:05am or 1:35pm bus at Berth 95, which sounds close to berth 92 where the NCL Star is due in, but is actually like 1.5 miles away- I don't know enough about the port to know what transport options you've got (certainly there will be taxis, but that seems a slightly crazy way to go less than two miles from one berth to another, doesn't it? I don't know). 9:05am seems like it might be cutting it close, relying on an on-time arrival and an early walk-off, so if it were me I'd book the 1:35pm bus, which is the one that connects for the 3pm Surfliner.

The Los Angeles Maritime Museum (http://www.lamaritimemuseum.org/) is right there... maybe if you don't have a whole lot of luggage you could make a stop there to break up the walk...

(Not sure I've been any help, sorry)

 

[Guest]

Yes, great help, thank you very much. We have booked our tickets from Union Station to San Diego leaving at 3.00pm so I will now try and cancel those tickets and rebook for the Thruway service.

Cheers.

 

[Swadian Hardcore]

I don't know if you could get on the 450 bus?

 

[Eris]

Ah, city bus, hadn't even considered the possibility to suggest- out my way the bus schedule for Sundays is terrible.

http://media.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/images/450.pdf

Looks like it only gets you part way on weekends (and midday during the week), and then you transfer to the silver line.

http://media.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/images/910.pdf

(Me, I think I'd stick with Amtrak thruway for this one, but I admit being intimidated by the LA public transit system)

 

[ehbowen]

You might also look up Super Shuttle; they serve San Pedro and the Amtrak station. (Amtrak is in the list of airports, but way down at the bottom in its own section.) A quick check gave me a price quote of $59 for the first passenger but just $9 for each additional passenger. By calling them directly you might be able to do better than that, as their website didn't seem all that intelligent...but it shouldn't be any worse than that.

ETA: Just put in AMT (Los Angeles Amtrak) to LAH (Los Angeles Harbor) and got a price quote of $39 for the first passenger and $9 for additional passengers. That's probably about the best you can do through them.

 

[Guest]

Thank you to everyone for your help, much appreciated. We have decided to use Supershuttle US$50 for 2 passengers. Very good price.

Thank again

Shiela