The tour we selected was a 6 hour tour of Los Angeles and was covered quite a lot of ground. We started in Venice Beach and then down the road to Santa Monica, over to Downtown LA, China Town and the Hollywood Hills and then continued on through Bel Air and Westwood. We had stops at Venice Beach, Union Station, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Bowl Observation Point, Bel Air and Rodeo Drive which broke up the bus tour nicely.
Our tourguide was good. He took us places not normally on the tours like the canals in Venice Beach (hard to get into) as well as a few places in the Hollywood Hills and Bel Air they don’t normally allow Tour Buses including the Spelling Estate in Bel Air which just went on the market for US$150million making it the most expensive house in the country at the moment.
We saw the houses of several stars including Jack Nicholson, Meg Ryan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt & Jenniffer Anniston (when they were married), Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthonys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Shaquille O’Neal. We also saw the Location House for the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Our tour bus only had 16 people on it and 6 were from Australia (2 couples and a Mum & daughter). After touring around all day Rebecca and I had dinner at Souplantation - it is like Sizzler except you don’t order a main meal - just lots of soup, salad, bakery and desert. I enjoyed it despite no mains as my throat is still a bit swollen and I am having trouble chewing breads and the like.
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