Summer Beach Shuttle

The run to and from the Abbott Kinney festival had a not very pleasant driver. But it is free and convenient no doubt.

I wish they ran year round as another Unilocaler said.
Convenient, on time, clean, happy neighbors, and kind drivers. Can’t get any better than this.
Love you guys!!!

It’s free… It’s convenient… It’s the Summer Beach Shuttle! Princess loves the breakfast potatoes at The Sidewalk Café in Venice Beach and wanted to go there on this fine friday morning. We contemplated driving there but then realized that parking at the beach on July 4^th, would be atrocious. So we remembered that the free Summer Beach Shuttle happens to have a stop on its route right in front of our home and right down the street from the Venice Beach Pier. Princess and I were very pleased with the shuttle service and shocked about how popular it was.
Pro-​tip: Make sure you shower and wash your clothes on a regular basis before you go on this small shuttle, for the sake of the other passengers forced to take in the ripe, sour smell of alley dumpsters.

This shuttle is awesome! I only wish it ran year-​round!
This year it ran weekends and holidays beginning Memorial Day Weekend (Friday, May 23) through Labor Day (Monday, September 1):
*Fridays and Saturdays — 10am to 10pm
*Sundays and holidays, including July 4^th — 10am to 8pm
It also ran for the Abbott Kinney Festival, September 28 — 10am to 5pm.
I am hoping it’ll have the same schedule next year. Since I recently moved here, I was only able to take advantage of it at the end of its run, but it was nice to hop on at Playa Vista and get off at Marina del Rey or Venice Beach Pier areas. It comes every 30 mins and is very reliable. You don’t have to worry about parking which is great during those busy times. The drivers were always friendly as well. I will definitely be taking advantage of this more next summer!

Now, I nomally don’t take public transit here in L.A.; I find it not very convenient, slow and sometimes unrealiable. But the the Summer Beach Shuttle is really great this year. It’s set up for locals as well as tourists and it goes from Playa Vista, to Marina del Rey, to the Venice Beach Pier. I had a friend that wanted to do some touristy things and what could be better than the Marina del Rey harbor tour on a beautiful spring day. We left the car in Playa Vista and hopped the shuttle — leaves every 30 minutes and made it over to Fisherman’s Village just in time to get the very next harbor tour. At the end, we had lunch at El Toritos — margaritas and all — and made it back in time for the shuttle back to Play Vista — we waited maybe 5 minutes. Our timing couldn’t have been better and it was way easy! Next time I think I’ll take it over to Venice Pier and have a bite at one of the places on Washington.