Los Angeles Highlights Tour

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Duration:7 hours (approx.)
Location: Los Angeles, California

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Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis that's impossible to see in a day, but you can visit its top attractions and suburbs on this full day of sightseeing that combines a morning tour of Santa Monica and Venice Beach with an afternoon tour through Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Leave the driving to an expert guide who will deal with the city's infamous traffic while you sit back and enjoy visits to the Third Street Promenade, Venice Beach Boardwalk, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Sunset Boulevard, Rodeo Drive and more.

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1. Another Side Of Los Angeles Tours
Meet your guide in central Los Angeles to begin your full-day tour of the city's top attractions and suburbs by air-conditioned minivan. You’ll begin with a morning tour of LA beaches followed by an afternoon tour of the landmarks of Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Your first destination is the century-old Santa Monica Pier, which provides expansive views of the sandy coastline and the Pacific Ocean. Learn about the history of the amusement rides before taking a stroll along the Third Street Promenade, an open-air shopping district filled with boutiques and name-brand stores in downtown Santa Monica. Back aboard the minivan, drive to another waterfront favorite — the Venice Beach Boardwalk, birthplace of extreme skateboarding and a hotbed of counter-culture quirkiness. Enjoy people watching and soak up the bohemian vibe as you admire more ocean views and watch the many street performers. Your guide will regale you with stories about Venice’s former inhabitants like Jim Morrison while you take note of Muscle Beach's eccentric crowd. Next, take a 1-hour break for lunch (own expense) at The Grove shopping center next to LA's popular Farmers Market, and then start the afternoon portion of your tour. Learn about the entertainment industry en route to Hollywood, where you’ll set eyes on the Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre), home to the Academy Awards. Stop at the opulent TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly called Grauman’s Chinese Theatre) on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame, where more than 2,500 stars line the sidewalk. Pass the 4,310-acre (1,740-hectare) Griffith Park and the restored movie palace of El Capitan Theatre, and enjoy views of the downtown skyline and the Hollywood Sign, a cultural icon marking the Hollywood Hills. As you drive down the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, glimpse the Viper Room — a legendary nightclub — and the world-famous Whiskey a Go Go, former host to rock bands like Led Zeppelin and The Doors. Cruise past the notorious Chateau Marmont, a celebrity favorite, on Sunset Boulevard as you make your way to Beverly Hills. While you drive down the palm-lined avenues, your guide will point out the mansions of the rich and famous, as well as the legendary hotels they frequent like the Beverly Hilton, the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Beverly Wilshire, featured in the movie Pretty Woman. Then cruise down Rodeo Drive and past the designer stores of the Golden Triangle on Wilshire Boulevard. Your tour ends when you return to your starting point at our office.
2. Santa Monica Pier
The iconic Santa Monica Pier is a 100 year old entertainment center on the water. It contains a family amusement park, several restaurants, fair-themed food booths, an arcade, and is always busy with public concert, movies, and events.
3. Venice Beach Boardwalk
Venice Beach and Boardwalk is a popular locale for tourists and locals alike. It contains the famous outdoor Muscle Beach gym, public modern art, street performers, and arts. It is a center for shopping and play for everyone.
4. The Original Farmers Market
The location of our lunch break, the Farmers Market first opened in 1934. It is a well-loved center of food stalls, sit-down eateries, prepared food vendors, and produce markets in Los Angeles, California. It features food from just about every culture, shopping, a hot-sauce specific shop, and fresh fruit and vegetables daily.
5. The Grove
The Grove lays directly across from The Farmer's Market. It is a large complex of shops and entertainment, but mostly known for its sprawling beautiful park. It features animated fountains and shaded and green walks everywhere.
6. Hollywood Sign
The classic Hollywood Sign is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is situated on Mount Lee, in the Hollywood Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains. "HOLLYWOOD" is spelled out in 45-foot-tall white capital letters and is 352 feet long.
7. Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is one of the most well known locations of Hollywood and LA. It runs over a mile along West Hollywood, and currently comprises of more than 2,600 individual stars of musicians, actors, directors, producers, and entertainment stars of every kind.
8. TCL Chinese Theatres
First opened in 1927, the Chinese Theater has been the heart of many world-famous movie premiers, three Academy-Awards ceremonies, and currently seats 932 people. It's possibly the most recognizable movie-palace in LA and is the home of the Hollywood Celebrity hand and foot-prints tiles.
9. El Capitan Theatre
The El Capitan Theater opened in 1926 by Charles E. Toberman and was being built around the same time as the Chinese Theater in partnership with Sid Grauman. Originally it premiered live stage-plays, but after being crushed by the Great Depression it turned to movie entertainment and road shows. It was put on the map after becoming the original screen-location of Citizen Kane.
10. Dolby Theatre
The Dolby Theater is now the center of the annual Academy Awards, and very close to the TLC Chinese Theater. It was designed specifically for the Oscars, and seats over 3000 people. Often when not hosting the awards it acts as a stage for televised stage-based shows like American Idol.
11. Sunset Boulevard
The Sunset Boulevard runs through both West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, connecting the two titans-of-entertainment locations. The Sunset Strip portion has been a center of Hollywood Night-Life for over half a century, and the rest of the strip is lined with recognizable buildings and signs featured in many, many movies.
12. The Viper Room
While originally known as The Central, The Viper Room was opened in 1993 and owned by Johnny Depp and Sal Jenco. Since then, the club has been known as a popular hang-out and preferred club of many Hollywood Elite. It's mainly known as a music venue, but also beloved as a whisky bar.
13. Whiskey-a-Go-Go
The first American Whisky a Go-Go was opened in 1958, and known as one of the earliest, if not the first, American discotheque. It has been the launching pad of No Doubt, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses and many many more.
14. Chateau Marmont
Based loosely on the French Royal Château d'Amboise, the Chateau Marmont was competed in 1929. It stands like a palace over the Sunset Boulevard. Originally it was built as a high-end apartments for the movers and shakers, and later converted in to a glamorous hotel. It was declared a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Landmark in 1976.
15. Rodeo Drive
The heart of Beverly Hills. Rodeo Drive is a two-mile stretch of road that encompasses some of the most glamorous and famous locations Along its path lays restaurants pioneered by world-class world-famous chefs, and beautiful luxurious hotels loved by stars of the golden age and the modern era.
16. Two Rodeo Drive
As a highlight of Rodeo Drive, the Two Rodeo Drive is a luxurious shopping area home to high-end boutiques and designer shopping. It lays beautifully lined with cobbled bricks and styled in classic European-style architecture, and wrought iron lamps.

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Posted By : WatsonsS
Ben was an exceptional tour guide and driver. Gave us so much information as we went along and answered our many questions. Gave us lots of picture opportunities and was super accommodating. We saw all the things we wanted and plenty we didn’t even know we wanted to see. This tour highlights all the best things in around the city and is able to go to places that big buses can’t get due to city restrictions. The Mercedes van is clean and spacious. The tour is like having a personal tour guide. Would highly recommend.
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Posted On : 2023-10-10 21:29:32

Posted By : 449galenp
Our guide Ben was great, we saw loads of famous places and had a great time. Will highly recommend this tour guide for a great experience.
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Posted On : 2023-07-21 06:41:10

Posted By : kharris017
My son and I visited LA this week and while there did the 5 hour LA Highlights tour in Beverly Hills/Hollywood. Everything about the tour was great, and our guide Ben was awesome. Ben was personable, knowledgeable about the city and has a great sense of humor. I'm sure all the guides are great, but I would highly recommend Ben!
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Posted On : 2023-07-05 17:25:50

Posted By : Francesca-76
Our communication with Kenneth in the office from the very start was outstanding - so quick to respond and very helpful in trying to align our one day layover with a tour including airport pick up!

Our guide Ben was brilliant and really put us at ease in the city (important with two young children) and his sense of humour was great.
We were literally chauffeur driven from place to place and given as long as we needed in each place. It all worked seamlessly. He certainly knows his way round and was happy to try and find my son’s favourite you tuber’s house which made his day! We even went to a fab diner for lunch which suited us perfectly.

All perfect and exactly what we needed being tired! We feel like we’ve seen LA and made the most of our layover.

Totally recommend and thank you!
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Posted On : 2023-04-19 01:04:26

Posted By : Gandalf321
Great customer service by this company. We saw so much today with Ben. I'm glad he was driving. From the famous beaches to the Mulholland Drive to Beverly Hills and more. An advantage of going mid-week outside of the main tourist season is this tour had just two couples (very small group).
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Posted On : 2022-09-20 23:55:46

Posted By : AmyYount75
Ben was a great guide who had us entertained and informed! He also took many family pictures for us that we will treasure. I really appreciate that he drove us through the UCLA campus even though that is not typically on the tour….we have a rising HS senior who was interested in seeing it. He was very flexible and wanted to show us what we were interested in. I highly recommend this tour and Ben as a tour guide!
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Posted On : 2022-07-17 13:24:33

Posted By : haydenfrankgrove
On Thursday morning, José, goes by his last name, Oyola, took me and a couple from Peoria, Ill. on a full tour of LA in a beautiful Mercedes bus. He too was funny, kind and insightful, all the while taking us through the city. The stops included Hollywood Hills, the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip, Hollywood and Beverly Hills. We walked around Hollywood for an hour or so, as Oyola took us for a deeper look into iconic venues such as the Chinese and Dolby Theaters and the Roosevelt Hotel.

The whole operation, as well as the tour guides, were first class and I couldn’t have been more thrilled to get to see so much of a new city in such a wonderful way!

Definitely, a must for those looking to explore LA!
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Posted On : 2022-07-07 17:20:40

Posted By : Jacqueline_G
An amazing tour of all of LA. High-tech recommend Ben as your tour guide!! He was fantastic and such a great guy!
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Posted On : 2022-06-30 12:18:08

Posted By : annabur2016
I decided the LA Highlights Tour would be a great way to see LA in 7 hours and I wasn't disappointed ! Ben was our guide and was very knowledgeable and entertaining. We visited Venice Beach, Santa Monica, had lunch at the Farmers Market, then onto Hollywood, Beverly Hills and the surrounding area. Ben even went out of his way to stop close to the Oppenheim Group office on Sunset Plaza so I could take a picture (I'm a big Selling Sunset fan)! I had such a great time and would definitely recommend this tour.
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Posted On : 2022-05-30 11:42:49

Posted By : KarenKitzel
In town for a few days, we booked the LA Highlights Tour after reading other reviews. We had a fantastic day with Darnell that felt personal and unique to us and not like a another cookie-cutter, shut-up-and-ride-the-bus tour. We enjoyed friendly, insightful narrative and many, many sights from Santa Monica and Venice Beach to Hollywood, the Walk of Fame, Griffith Observatory, Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, The Farmer's Market for lunch, fabulous mansions, the Hollywood sign and more--all in the comfort of a luxury van. Darnell showed us SO much in just a day, it would have taken us a week to see everything on our own. He knew where to go, where to park, guided us easily from place to place and he was a really interesting person to talk to. Another couple joined us in the afternoon and that was fun, too. Kenneth arranged the tour and our transportation from our hotel and it was a positive experience all the way. Five stars for sure!
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Posted On : 2021-05-30 21:26:22