World Traveller 73 
Activity: To Malibu for Lunch, California, USA
This post is one chapter on our trip to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Melbourne with The Great Ocean Road, exploring The Yarra Valley and the beaches of The Gold Coast via Qantas First Class. This trip was booked using Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan. For more information on how this trip was booked, please see our trip introduction here. For other parts of the trip, please see this index.
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Read More From This Trip
- Introduction: Melbourne & Whitsunday Islands, Australia via Qantas First Class
- Alaska Airlines First Class: Vancouver – Seattle
- Alaska Airlines Premium Class: Seattle – Los Angeles
- Marriott LAX, Los Angeles, USA
- To Malibu for Lunch, California, USA
- Qantas First Class Lounge: Tom Bradley International Terminal Los Angeles, USA
- Qantas First Class: Los Angeles – Melbourne
- Westin Melbourne, Australia
- City Visit: Melbourne, Australia – Part I
- City Visit: Melbourne, Australia – Part II
- The Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia
- The Great Ocean Road and the 12 Apostles, Victoria, Australia
- Qantas Business Lounge: Melbourne
- Qantas Business: Melbourne – Hamilton Island
- Qualia Luxury Resort, Hamilton Island, Australia
- Pebble Beach at Qualia Luxury Resort, Hamilton Island, Australia
- Cruise to The Great Barrier Reef, Hardy’s Reef, Australia
- The Great Barrier Reef via Hamilton Island Air Helicopter
- Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet, Australia
- Virgin Australia: Prosperine – Brisbane
- Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort and Spa (Gold Coast), Australia
- Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia – Part I
- Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia – Part II
- Qantas Business Lounge: Brisbane
- Qantas Business Class: Brisbane – Sydney
- Pier One Sydney by Autograph Collection, Sydney, Australia
- Qantas First Class Lounge: Sydney Kingford Smith, Sydney, Australia
- Qantas First Class: Sydney – Dallas
- American Express Centurion Lounge: Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Alaska Airlines First Class: Dallas – Seattle
- Alaska Airlines Flagship Lounge: North Satellite – Sea Tac, Seattle, USA
- Alaska Airlines: Seattle – Vancouver
Activity: To Malibu for Lunch, California, United States
After the quick morning “snack” in the lounge. MrsWT73 took a while to get going. We ended up leaving the hotel at around 12 noon and heading up the coast to Malibu. We drove up the coast to Duke’s Malibu. It was a popular spot for brunch; we didn’t have a reservation and there was about a 40 minute wait for Sunday Brunch. We ended up on the pub side where we sat outside while the local fog burned off. An spiked iced tea complimented today’s brunch efforts.
Nice to actually have a drink out of one of these mugs stateside…
Driving the Pacific Coast Highway through Malibu:
On our way back, we stopped a few times to take in the shore line from the Pacific Coast Highway. The sun started coming out slowly.
A Walk on the Santa Monica Pier:
We ended up at the Santa Monica Pier. We were lucky enough to find street parking out front of the JW Marriott Le Meridina? We ended up going for a walk down the pier. Being the middle of summer, it was packed with people.
A slow walk out to the end, taking in the sights. It was my first time visiting Santa Monica Beach in the middle of summer. It was quite busier than in my past trips.
We headed down to the boardwalk where the playground and yoga stands were. We passed by the usual patch of grass where several yoga stand poses were on display.
We eventually wandered back to the car and onwards to LAX and the Hertz Rental Return. We experienced the miserable traffic issues around LAX with an extra 15 minutes wait just getting back to the rental car return. After we had returned our vehicle, we had another 20 minutes on the hertz shuttle buss just navigating traffic to get to the terminal.
Our Los Angeles Layover Summarized:
All in all, I was happy we left a little bit of extra time in order to fully enjoy the departure experience. Our brief trip to Malibu was a nice way to kill a layover and a nice change of pace from our usual Los Angeles activities.
World Traveller 73 
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