LAX to UCLA Car Service

The simplest answer to how to get from LAX to UCLA is to book a chauffeured car, which drives the 15 to 17 miles up Interstate 405 from your terminal to the campus entrance you name. A LAX airport to UCLA ride takes a typical 20 to 35 minutes after 8 PM and 40 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes at weekday morning peak, per Google traffic estimates. Rideshare, taxi, shuttle and bus also serve the route.

Give the building name and its street address, not just "UCLA". The campus street address is 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, but the campus runs from Sunset Boulevard to Le Conte Avenue and the entrances differ by building. Residence halls on the Hill are reached from Sunset Boulevard or Gayley Avenue, central campus from Westwood Plaza.

Yes. The Hill residence halls are a separate drop-off from central campus. UCLA Housing names Sunset Boulevard at Bellagio Way as the most direct entrance for on-campus housing, along with Gayley Avenue at Strathmore Drive and Sunset Boulevard at Westwood Plaza. Central campus buildings are reached from Westwood Plaza and Westwood Boulevard instead. Name the hall when you book.

The LAX to UCLA distance is 15 to 17 road miles, depending on which campus building you are heading for. The route is Interstate 405 northbound, and the return is the 405 southbound at 15.5 miles. Royce Hall, at the far north end of central campus, was the longest of the eight addresses we measured.

Typically 20 to 35 minutes after 8 PM, 30 to 50 minutes at weekday midday, and 40 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes at weekday morning peak, per Google traffic estimates (Routes API). Friday evenings ran 25 to 40 minutes and weekends 25 to 45. Your fare does not change if the traffic does.

Typically 20 to 25 minutes leaving campus at 3:30 AM on a Tuesday, 25 to 40 minutes at 7 AM, and 45 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes at 4:30 PM, per Google traffic estimates. A UCLA to LAX airport run at afternoon peak can take three times as long as the same drive before dawn, which is why the departure table matters.

Work backwards from the flight: that is the whole trick to how to get to LAX from UCLA on time. Book a UCLA to LAX car service for the time below. For a 6 AM domestic departure we suggest a pickup at about 3:05 AM: two hours at the airport, 24 minutes of drive time, a 20-minute safety buffer and 10 minutes to load. For a 9 AM flight, about 5:50 AM.

At your terminal. Choose curbside on the lower Arrivals level, or meet and greet inside the terminal where your chauffeur waits with a name sign and helps with the bags. Arriving at Tom Bradley International Terminal, you can be met in the arrivals hall after customs or at the lower-level curb.

Check the airport's own site for the current rental-car connection before you travel, because we do not publish LAX facility details. It makes no difference to a prearranged car: your iRide360 chauffeur comes to your terminal, so you never cross to a rental facility or a rideshare lot. Give us the terminal and flight number when you book.

Only the Uber app can tell you, because rideshare prices are set when you request a car and move with demand. We cannot quote another company's fare and never publish one. What we can say is that an iRide360 executive sedan to UCLA starts at $124, fixed at booking, and that rideshare pickups happen at the LAX-it lot rather than your terminal.

We cannot compare fares we do not set, so we will not guess. The real difference is how they work: an airport shuttle is a shared van that collects several parties and stops at each one, a taxi is metered from the LAX-it lot, and a UCLA shuttle to LAX leaves on the operator's schedule rather than yours. iRide360 runs neither; we run private cars.

Public transit does serve the route, and UCLA's own transportation site is the place to check current services, stops and times. We do not publish bus schedules or fares. If you would rather not manage a UCLA to LAX bus or a bus from UCLA to LAX with luggage, a private car picks you up at the hall door instead.

Yes. UCLA tells arriving drivers to use the valet driveway at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center's main entrance at 757 Westwood Plaza, and says there are vehicle drop-off zones in front of the hospital and the emergency room. The Luskin Conference Center is at 425 Westwood Plaza. Give the building name when you book.

Yes, and they vary by area and by season. UCLA has 12 designated ride-hailing pick-up zones across campus, enforced 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During scheduled move-in, UCLA also turns part of Charles E Young Drive and De Neve Drive into a clockwise one-way loop, with personnel directing traffic. Tell us the building and entrance when you book, and your chauffeur follows UCLA's own directions and any marshals on the day.

We provide the private, chauffeured airport limousine experience in black executive sedans and luxury SUVs. Those are our only two vehicle classes. Stretch limousines are not part of our fleet. For a campus arrival, the executive sedan takes 3 passengers and 3 bags and the luxury SUV takes 5 and 5, with a licensed chauffeur and a fare agreed before pickup.

Yes. The luxury SUV seats up to 5 passengers with 5 bags, which suits a residence-hall move-in; the executive sedan takes 3 and 3. We can also add a stop, priced for the extra distance and time, if you need to collect something in Westwood on the way.

Yes to both. Booster, forward-facing and rear-facing child seats are available from $25 each on request, fitted before you land. Pets travel for a $25 pet fee, listed as an extra rather than an included amenity. Service animals are never charged. Add either when you book, or call dispatch on (833) 743-3360.

Gratuity is optional and entirely yours to choose. At checkout you can pick 15%, 18%, 20%, 25%, a custom amount, or nothing at all, and it goes to the chauffeur. Every "from" price on this page is the fare without gratuity, so nothing is added behind your back.

Nothing on your side. Flight tracking is included on every airport ride, so the pickup moves with the delay at no charge. After the flight lands you get 60 minutes of complimentary wait; beyond that it is $1 per minute. A non-airport pickup, such as one on campus, includes 15 minutes.

Book as soon as you have the flight, particularly around move-in week, family weekends, commencement and the end of term, when the whole campus travels at once. You can change the pickup time, the address or the vehicle online or through dispatch afterwards, and the price adjusts to the change.

Yes — dispatch is on (833) 743-3360, 24 hours a day, and can quote, book or change a campus ride on the call. You can also book online at iride360.com/book and change the pickup time, address or vehicle there afterwards. iRide360's office is at 222 N Pacific Coast Hwy, Suite 2000, El Segundo, CA 90245, minutes from the airport.

Look for four things: a published price you can see before you book, a California CPUC charter-party license, flight tracking with a stated free wait time, and door-to-door drop-off rather than a shared stop. iRide360 is TCP 43833-A, prices from $124, tracks your flight and waits 60 minutes after landing. Our Google rating is 5.0★.