Los Angeles · California
Star sidewalks, Pacific sunsets, the long drive between.
Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Venice Beach. The Sign hike, the studio tours, the helicopter ride over them all.
The full-day loop
Start with the one that covers it all.
Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica — the full sweep in a single day. Where most travellers begin Los Angeles.
The classics
LA's Most Popular Tours
Hollywood Sign loops, Beverly Hills celebrity drives, Santa Monica beach runs. The trips Los Angeles is built around.
By neighborhood
Pick a corner of LA.
Hollywood for the names. Beverly Hills for the gates. Downtown for the grid. Griffith Park for the view. Santa Monica for the pier. Venice for the boardwalk.
Only in LA
Three things you can only do here.
Other cities have walking tours, food tours, helicopter tours. Other cities do not have these three. The Sign. The lot. The Boulevard.
Only in LA · No. 1
The Hollywood Sign Hike
There is one HOLLYWOOD sign in the world, painted on a Griffith Park hillside in 1923 as a real-estate billboard. It was supposed to come down after eighteen months. It stayed because it stopped being an ad and became its own thing. The hike from the back of the hill gets you nearly close enough to touch the H.
Only in LA · No. 2
A Working Movie Studio
Warner Bros. is not a museum. It is the working lot where Friends, Ellen, The Big Bang Theory and a hundred films you have seen were shot. The studio tour walks you onto active soundstages, past the New York street set, through the prop warehouse. There is no other city where this tour exists.
Only in LA · No. 3
Stars in the Sidewalk
Two thousand seven hundred brass-and-terrazzo stars set into the Hollywood Boulevard pavement since 1960. Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Mickey Mouse, John Williams. The names you grew up watching, laid into the concrete in the order they were inducted, mile after mile.
By tour type
Or pick how you want to see it.
Open-top bus for the wide loop. Helicopter for the city from above. Walking for the streets, e-bike for the coast, food tours for the rest.
From above
LA looks different from a helicopter.
Hollywood Sign, the Hills, the Pacific coast — all in thirty minutes. Three flights we would send anyone on for their first hour in the air.
After dark
LA after the sun drops.
The city lit up from Griffith Observatory, Hollywood once the marquees come on, sunset through the canyons. Three favourites for the evening shift.
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