Long Beach is in southern California, USA and is the largest city on the southern pacific coast. It is located at about 32 km south of Downtown Los Angeles in Los Angeles County. Long Beach is the sixth largest city in California and 36th largest city in US. Long Beach is also home to one of the largest shipping port called Port of Long Beach and has some largest oil industry. Long beach enjoys a moderate climate throughout the year because it’s very close to the Pacific Ocean. Rainy season generally occurs in winter when storm carry heavy rainfall. Rainfall is generally without precipitation at Long Beach California.
Long Beach has a medium size airport called Long Beach Airport. Several freeways are present in Long Beach joining it with Los Angeles and Orange County areas. Los Angeles Blue Line Light rails travel from Long Beach City hall to Downtown Los Angeles. You can catch Amtrak (government owned passenger train service) which starts in San Pedro and stops at Queen Mary, downtown Long Beach, Union Station in downtown Los Angeles and finally ends at Bakersfield.
Long Beach Transit provides public transportation. It provides services like normal bus, zero fare bus routes and water taxi. Long Beach contains numerous zero fare Passport bus routes using mini buses to transport passenger around downtown area. Long beach transit also carry passenger in Aqualink water taxi with its destination at Aquarium of the pacific, Queen Marry and several others. Bus services are also made available by Orange county Transportation Authority to Orange County area. If you are a bike lover than Long Beach has some bike path along the city street.
If you are thinking of renting a car than you can opt in for various renting companies like Hertz, Avis, Alamo and many local car rentals in an affordable price.
You can easily book an online car rental in Longbeach with Budget, Dollar, Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Thrifty and Alamo. Choose from a massive fleet of cars including convertibles, suv's, trucks, sedans, mini vans, station wagons, hybrids and coupes.