How to get rid of suitcases?

[queenarmadillo]

We have a flight out of LAX at 7pm on the last day of our Anaheim trip.
I would really like to spend that day on the beach, but at the moment it looks like we would have to check out of the hotel, leave our bags at the front desk, travel to the beach on the bus, travel back past the airport to Anaheim to retreive the suitcases from the hotel, and then go back to the airport. That seems really illogical, and almost makes it not worth going to the beach at all.

Can anyone make a suggestion of a better way to deal with this? Ideally we would like to drop the bags at the airport on the way out in the morning, but it doesnt look like the airline will let us check them until 4hrs before the flight, even if we check in online.

 

[CalvaryMike]

Which beach are you going to and what day of the week?

 

[queenarmadillo]

Whichever works out the most convenient really. I think Santa Monica is my favourite, but its a bit out of the way so perhaps long beach or Huntington would be more practical.

 

[woody73]

You might consider Manhattan Beach, which is much closer to LAX than the other beaches you mention.

Woody