adeleh

We will be in LA for a wedding in May and are planning to go to Palm Springs for the last two nights.
We are flying out of LAX at 1:00pm-domestic flight.
Do you think we can stay in PS the night before the flight and leave early in the morning for the airport?

Barney18

No, unless it is the weekend; too much traffic. Even without traffic it is 2 and 1/2 hrs.

escargot

Sure you can, it just all depends on how early you want to get up and jump in your car -

and if it is a weekday or a weekend -

if your flight is at 1 pm, domestic, you need to check in at noon -
if you are returning a rental car you'd want to get there by 11:15 (I would anyway)

Agree it is about 2-3 hours - with light traffic -

depending on the day of the week -

but I'm conservative, and I would probably leave at 7:30am, so I'd know I'd make my flight - - and if you get to LAX early, have brunch/lunch close to or in the airport -

adeleh

We were thinking of leaving our hotel around 7:00am and our flight is on a Tuesday. What do you think?

escargot

I think so but I emailed my cousin who does that route all the time and asked them..... hopefully someone else will chime in who does it more often ...

Cali

I have done that route before on a weekday and will never do it again. It is horrible. Spend the night before in LA.

janisj

leave PS late in the evening, and Priceline an LAX hotel. You won't lose any usable PS time, since you'd have to leave at 0 dark thirty to miss horrible traffic on Tues.

Leave after dinner Monday night - will have MUCH less traffic, and be able to sleep in.

jbass

Hi-YES I do this all the time. I have a place in Palm Desert and fly via LAX since airfares are cheaper. Just allow enough time; I'd leave by 8:00am; since you obviously have a rental car to return, and that's off-site from the airport.