I am going to Air Desert Pacific in Sept for a couple of weeks to do some hour building. Hope to knock out 50 hours in that time and will be venturing out and about to take in the sights. Check out their website which has full details of costs, free transfers and accomodation options etc. This outfit has been discussed numerous times on pprune.
I seem to remember something about UKFT moving to another field? Could be wrong though but then might explain their lack of response to your emails/calls etc.
You might also want to do a search of pprune typing in such things as LA flying, california and suchlike. A number of other Californian schools will come up that don't appear in either flyer or pilot magazine.
Have fun.