It's been a while, but I don't believe we were allowed to check our luggage thru from PHX. They have free luggage carts at LAX, so it's no big problem to cart your luggage over to the Bradley terminal and ATN. The Bradley terminal has lots of eating places. I could be wrong on this, because we were allowed to check our luggage thru to Singapore in March. I do know that we did not check thru going to Papeete though.