LA / Hollywood Question

John259

davetrousers wrote: »

The car journey between SF and LA is a better reason to do this trip!...

Agreed 100%. Given sufficient time it would be magnificent!

gem75

I once had a long stop over at LAX so I booked a city tour with one of the tour companies (can't remember which one now). They picked me up and dropped me off at the airport and we did Hollywood Boulevard, Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Rodeo Drive and a couple of other places.

ceewash

I loved the Hollywood experience- even though it was tacky, it is just one of those places to visit. We did the tour of the movie star homes in a jeep. It was great. There is a good shopping place (the Highland something?) It was good to see the place the Oscars comes from. We also had a day at Universal which was really good.

mikem1986

Honestly I hated LA and Hollywood, I was there in November as part of my 3 month trip travelling the USA and it was that bad I didn't even stay the night, I got to LA from Vegas about 8am, headed straight downtown and then went to Hollwyood. I left 11pm that night to go to San Fransisco as I was soooo disappointed to say the least!

John259

Los Angeles covers a huge area so it's perhaps not appropriate to assess it as a whole.

FWIW:

I thought Santa Monica was bland but not unpleasant.

I thoroughly enjoyed a day in Disneyland. By comparison I thought Universal Studios was a very weak effort but that was years ago.

I've never been the Walk of Fame - it doesn't appeal to me at all. I've read consistently good reports of Griffith Observatory but haven't been there.

I've stayed in the outer eastern suburbs (places such as San Dimas, Chino and Ontario) for a night after arriving at LAX and before heading off to places such as Joshua Tree. Those suburbs are relatively affluent and pleasant, and traffic levels on the freeways there are much lower than in the central area.

But in California give me the Pacific Coast Highway and Yosemite rather than Los Angeles.