Airport Taxis

I don't sleep well on planes unless it's a lie flat seat. Although it's not a long flight the seat pitch is crowded. finally, and I think most importantly, having worked graveyard shifts for my 40 year career as an ER doc, should something happen that requires an urgent response, everybody both in the ground and in the air reacts a bit more slowly.
Our standard trip involves flying to LAX the late afternoon before, staying usually at an Embassy Suites at LAX, once in a while depending on what is available, going to theater there and then taking the AM flight out of LAX.
As they say, different strokes.