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LA bus tours- any tips?

hello
only want to spend short time in LA and want to see the sights...bus tours look fun but, expensive... any tips or advice on which is best value tours gladly accepted
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  • Hi,
    I've been to LA and used Starlinetours.com and they were good.
  • dmg24
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    Avoid the open top bus tour, it is shockingly bad. Whilst I think some buses are more reliable on others, the one I went on had variable audio (silent to ear damaging) and the commentary was out of sync with the locations. The funniest thing about the tour was the group trying to compose their own commentary!
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  • bex2002
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    i used starline from outside the kodak theatre and found them to be really good, i got one of the go cards or one similar from the toursit office also outside the kodak theatre and got lots of attractions including i think a couple of days on the tours too, found them to be good value for money.
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  • +1 for Starline Tours ... we took the "City, Homes & Beach Tour" .. very enjoyable day and many photo opportunities :D
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    edited 21 September 2010 at 7:00AM
    dmg24 wrote: »
    Avoid the open top bus tour, it is shockingly bad. Whilst I think some buses are more reliable on others, the one I went on had variable audio (silent to ear damaging) and the commentary was out of sync with the locations. The funniest thing about the tour was the group trying to compose their own commentary!

    Wow! What a shame it wasn't working properly when you were there.

    We did the open top last year and it was brilliant! We got the first bus of the morning and spent all day hopping on and off at different points along the route
    We recommended it to friends who went this year and they thought it was great too.
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  • ceewash
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    Remember to haggle on the prices. we got a good discount on the Movie star homes tour. Also it was very hot on open top jeep so sun screen and hats were needed. It was a great tour taking in many of the sites.
  • Just to add ... we did not tour on the open top we opted for the mini bus option ,,, around 9 people on our tour :)
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