Oh yeah, you jumped off WAY early. I think some valuable lessons were learned here:1. Public Transit in LA is SLOW and inefficient. 2. Traffic in LA is infamously bad. 3. Don t believe everything you see on TV.There aren t really shops along the beach at all. In fact, all you are going to see is mostly garages of the rich and famous. Zuma Beach is pretty nice, but it was quite a bit further along. A lot of those houses along the beach are in a very small area between PCH and the water... and public access is discouraged in every possible way by locals.
I remember thinking pretty much the same thing. Why does anyone want to live there, let alone the rich? One house wide and twenty seven miles long. It s shrouded in sea fog a lot of the time, and then around December there are fires in the hills and they lose a house or two. The fires destroy the undergrowth on the hills so that when it rains towards Christmas they have mud slides and they lose a few more. Guess the film makers are really good at making crap look sexy.Hope you tried Venice Beach. Bizarre in the extreme but much more fun.
There are not shops along the beach - like in Venice or Santa Monica - but there are restaurants and shopping centers (little and quaint) on Pacific Coast Highway..............It s really not a tourist destination and the beaches are by private access
malibu isnt a touristy kind of city, thats whyyou have small shops, restaurants and stuff but thats about itimmmmmmmmmmm from malibu