City Safari Hollywood Tours

I road the tour with my out of town guests and we all had a good time. This is a smaller tour company, so I would recommend to do the complete tour loop and stay on the bus. My family and I were so entertained with our tour guide that we didn’t want to hop off. I will definitely do the tour again and take more family members who come to visit me in LA!

Kind of interesting that all the 4 star reviews are from LA locals? I have not even taken the tour yet just purchased the groupon and it has been like teeth and nails trying to make a booking and their website is of no help at all. I guess you get what you pay for.

Was a really great experience. Born and raised in California and never went on a tour before. They give a lot of cool fun facts and our tour guide George was awesome. We did only see one celebrity Rebecca De Morna from Risky Business but still worth it. One of my favorites from the drive was passing by the street where they filmed the original Nightmare on Elm Street.

I had a day to kill by myself in LA and decided to take the hop on/​hop off tour. I’ve taken these types of bus tours in many cities (Dubai, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Boston, etc) and this was not nearly as enjoyable as the other tours. I gave them two stars for the ONLY redeeming factor of this tour which was Melrose Larry, one of the guides. He was great and had a ton of knowledge.
Now for some of the bad points:
— the information in the brochure they give you is wrong.
— Pick up/​drop off times all wrong and they don’t stop at all of the stops!
— Internet and brochure lists different ending times but the buses stopped rolling well before the listed time.
— the pick up/​drop off points aren’t designated and no one bothers to tell you what to look for or where to wait for the bus.
–I couldn’t find the bus for half the time and ended up just walking to half of the different stops.
— another tour guide on a different bus was plain awful. She didn’t speak most of the time, or just gave the names of buildings. No info, no history. It was like she was just reading a script and would tell you to look for something that wasn’t even there. She also made me uncomfortable when she confronted me as I was leaving (after being on bus for only 1 stop) and told me she doesn’t get paid hourly so I needed to tip her or she wouldn’t get paid. This was so unprofessional and my last straw with that tour guide.
All in all, the tour wasn’t worth the cost. Melrose Larry was great, but not enough to save this tour in the end.

I highly recommend taking a tour with this company whether you are visiting on vacation or even if you live here. Several times I have been tied up with work while having out of state visitors. The feedback I have gotten from friends and family has been more than amazing. Also it took off some pressure for me to show them around so they enjoy the full tourist experience. Not going to lie I was a little jealous how they gained more knowledge about this city in 2 hours than I have gained living here for 4 ½ years! Hats off to the owners and friendly staff. They really go above and beyond. Can’t wait to take a tour myself!

Booked this tour through Living Social, but you clearly get what you pay for. The tour was great in the beginning, but… While this tour is advertised as hop on hop off, it isn’t really. You can hop off but only if you ask. We passed 10 of the «stops» before the driver asked if anyone wanted to get off. Thankfully (or not depending on your perspective!) our bus broke down near the La Brea Tar Pits so we decided to explore and walk to the Farmer’s Market. When finished at the farmers market, we want to where the tour guide told us to wait, and the bus never showed. We called the company and they told us to go wait in another location and the bus should arrive in a couple minutes. Well, it didn’t. We called back and they directed us to wait somewhere else and wait for the next bus… That would arrive in 1.5 HOURS! Completely unacceptable having us walk all over the place and not showing up. Would not recommend this company at all!

What an awesome time! From beginning to end the entire experience was great. Amazing tour guide, owner and driver! Couldn’t have had a better experience. An LA native and still learned so much.
Thank you for the great time!

City Safari is officially the best double decker tour out here in Hollywood!!!
The owner, Hugo, is such a great guy. While my family and I were waiting for our scheduled tour, he brought us bottled water and made us all feel special.
Sean was the guy at the booth where we got our tickets and he was the most friendly guy, made us all laugh and pass the time.
Roxy was our tour guide, she was absolutely great!!! Gave us a lot of fun facts that I didn’t even know about Hollywood. And gave us the best experience while on the tour.
All and all our experience with City Safari Hollywood was great!!!

This was a great tour with lots of interesting tidbits of information given by the tour guide. We were able to get off at any of the stops and sightsee and then get back on. The only issue I had was the tour guide interacted with a select few in the front row instead of the entire bus and we heard too much about his personal life. Other than that, great tour!

Bought the double decker bus tour on Groupon for $ 30/​pp. 1– star for the price but you get what you pay for.
First of all the bus was late and blamed LA traffic. The tour I took was the day after Christmas and as a local resident — I know what traffic is like and so should they since they do the same tour over and over again. My tour was for 2 pm and the bus showed up at 2:45 — we had to wait till 3 pm. I think they only have a fleet of 1 – 2 busses and as we waited 4 star line buses passed us by. When our tour finally started The bus was fairly empty so I assume they delayed the bus to cram the 2:00 and 3:00 pm tour. But WTH — you just took and hour of tourists lives???
I purposely booked the 2 pm so that I could be elsewhere by 5 pm with «LA traffic» factored in, I also knew what time the sun was setting and that it would be much colder after 4. Now for our tour guide — the dude was from middle America and not even local to LA. He talked about how he liked to shop at k– Mart and tried to quote prices on Rodeo drive but was clueless. He pointed out stuff like CVS and whole foods??? I think he was an aspiring comedian since he knew a lot about the comedy clubs we passed but when I say aspiring– I mean he aspires to be funny… He needs practice and I assume we were his captive audience. take note of you are a tourist in America and given the current valuation of the USD … Chances are the tourist are more the Rodeo shopper than the Kmart shopper. Taking the family on a foreign vacation during peek season is not cheap!
If you have time to waste and are on a budget — throw your money at this place — you’ll spend a good 45 minutes waiting and have a tour of less than the advertised 2 hours. However, if you are visiting LA or new to LA, and value your vacation time, save your money and take a diff tour company. This tour is a complete waste of time and money.

It was well worth was the money, and we found it through app Groupon and Shawn honored it. Our first tour bus guide was Larry (highly recommend him) and he was very informative on knowing like everything about history, keeping us entertained learning new things about Hollywood.
We even saw celebrities: Kylie Jenner driving, Jennifer Aniston waved at us, and beauty guru Mannymua eating lunch! We saw them around noon on a weekday. So, keep your peeled and you might see celebrities.

Out of curiosity, I did some research after taking this tour and found that pretty much every home we saw was either not owned by the celebrity you claimed, or it was not featured in the movie you claimed. Now I’m wondering if the infamous Hollywood sign landmark we saw was even the real one. (Enter sarcasm.) So I’m giving you a ‘1’ rating. Although you provided some entertainment and some beautiful views for 2 hours, your tour is based on lies you are telling your customers as you take their hard-​earned money.

We took the City Safari tour today and we had a blast. Our guide, Matthew, was awesome, very funny and very professional at the same time. We asked additional questions and he was able to answer. He kept us entertained the entire time.
Highly recommend this tour.

The tour was really nice, but our tour guide Matthew, was amazing! My sister and I were visiting from Chicago and we ended up being the only two people on the tour at the time we went, but Matthew did a great job and was full of energy as if the bus was packed! He said that he was pretty new to the job, but we wouldn’t have known based on his presentation. Thanks city safari for a great time, and thanks Matthew for making it memorable! (i was supposed to write this review in early September when i took the tour, but misplaced the card that the guide gave us. I hope im remembering his name correctly! ;-/)

This was a really good tour! Our first guide, Matthew, was fantastic. He was funny, friendly and very informative. I am really glad we had him for the majority of the tour, great first impression! There are plenty of stops so you really have access to anywhere in the city. We hopped off towards the end, at the Farmer’s Market for lunch and a drink. When we hopped back on, the new tour guide was a little less impressive. He talked non-​stop on the microphone and half of it was annoying nonsense. He talked about how much he hated Panda Express for at least 5 minutes… it was a little odd and made the experience much less enjoyable. We only had to ride with the second guide for 3 stops, so it was bearable, but I probably would have gotten off and waited for the next bus had it been any further.

These guys rock! Great tour with great info on the city. The bus was super clean and comfortable. I would for sure come back.

We opted for the hop on/​hop off tour bus expecting that it would be great to have the option to hop off and further explore different areas at our discretion. We were really confused and disappointed that we passed by several stop points that were listed on the map with NO mention from the tour guide of an option to hop off. There were only 2 stops that the tour guide ‘asked’ if anyone wanted to get off… but it did not feel encouraged/​we both got the feeling that the tour guide purposely did not want to advertise the hop off option. This was later confirmed when we opted to get off at a stop and the tour guide announced ‘okay. well good bye… tips are appreciated.’ This put us over the edge as we were already super annoyed with the tour guide (Melrose Larry) He made extremely corny/​not funny jokes throughout the entire 2 hours that we were on the bus (WAY longer than advertised), it was clear that he wanted the tour to be exclusively with him (for $$$), and it was oppressively hot outside with no option to move to the lower part of the bus… minimal seating, dirty, and NO A/​C!!!
3 stars b/​c this experience could have been great. Larry did have a lot of knowledge/​cool history on the area. Also when we hopped back on for the last part of the tour we got Kenny as our tour guide and he was fantastic!!!

Did the tour twice. George is a great tour guide. He knows so much about the city and he is very funny. The ride was enjoyable and I learned so much about LA and all the cool spots and attractions. I will definitely take a tour again!

George was our tour guide. He did a great job. The tour was very interesting. I would certainly take again when I come back to LA.

We had Larry Melrose from Howard Stern show. He was hilarious! We had such a great time. The one tip I can tell anyone to do is go at the first bus 10am. It’s early but we’ll worth it. We were the only ones on so we had a personal tour. Larry made the trip such a blast, he even asked the driver to stop at the farmers market so I could get some waters and fruit salad for my daughter. I would definately recommend this to anyone wanting a tour.

City Safari is off the hook!!! Their buses are clean and new! I also noticed they have seats that are position sideways so you can view the tour parallel with the route. Rather than facing and turning your head when you see something that interest you.
City Safari Hollywood Tours has a real tour guide that gives you pointers and talks about history when you are the tour. Starline Tours just gives you a recorded audio tour. I think its more interesting when you have a live tour guide. Plus you can ask questions, which is always useful to tourist and people who live in Southern California.
I would differently take another tour again with friends from out of the country. The view from the top deck is like no other and offers a great view for photographers.

City Safari is off the hook!!! Their buses are clean and new! I also noticed they have seats that are position sideways so you can view the tour parallel with the route. Rather than facing and turning your head when you see something that interest you.
City Safari Hollywood Tours has a real tour guide that gives you pointers and talks about history when you are on the tour. Starline Tours just gives you a recorded audio tour. I think its more interesting when you have a live tour guide. Plus you can ask questions, which is always useful to tourist and people who live in Southern California.
I would differently take another tour again with friends from out of the country. The view from the top deck is like no other and offers a great view for photographers.

I recently went on a Hollywood tour with city safari tours and had a nirvana time, our tour guide Cortez knew soooo much about all the places we passed; The walk of fame, The sunset strip, Rodeo drive and etc. I highly recommend city safari Hollywood tours for your Hollywood tour with their awesome double decker, the sights are paramount!..

We LOVED THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE! ! FROM Beginning been Greeted & explained how the tour would go. George been very attentive to our questions also very pleasant and knowledgeable.
While on Bus Tour Saw Kim Kardashian n they gave us time to take pics /videos.IT WAS GREAT! And then to the end of our tour and Josh was also a HAPPY GREAT tour guide, Very knowledgeable n nice. Both George & Josh get 100% .WE ARE A VERY SATISFIED. TOTALLY COMING BACK!

Just accidentally got into the bus near LACMA .
Since it was my last day in Los Angels trip, it’s full filed by the guide Mr. george who explains about each and every places without any tiredness. Don’t miss CITY SAFARI when you people plan a tour to Los Angels.

Oh these cuties. I live here in Hollywood and from here (I know rare) however, I decided to take a tour for fun ;)
This is not your average your tour, I was walking home and decided to tour and met Sean who was so lovely, informative that then I found myself on the tour bus next.
On the roof top of the bus, palms trees and beautiful California sunshine as usual, George the tour guide then began our tour. He was so funny and kept everything exciting!
I am from here, thought I knew everything, but learned so much more! All was a blast!
I love City Safari!

I recently moved to LA and went on this tour a few days after I arrived to town. I had SUCH a great time!
Alyssa was a fantastic tour guide and really made the experience special.
I’ve spent a decent amount of time in the Hollywood area, but I have a whole new appreciation for it after everything I learned! I would definitely recommend this to anybody, whether a tourist or a local.

Went on this tour with some friends a couple weeks ago, and finally got around to writing a review!
Thoroughly enjoyed myself. As an LA native it was fun to just be a tourist for the day and ride around Hollywood.
Our guides name was Alyssa and she was great. Totally made the ride!
Tip: The Guadalajara dog and onion rings at Pinks. Yuuusssssss

Great experience ! We were warmly welcomed while we came with a groupon… had 40 min to wait for the next bus so we had a quick lunch at the mexican restaurant just behind (really good food). Alissa then Matthew were our guides and we learned so many things about famous places and celebrities ! Funny and interesting! Maybe too interesting so we got off only once, at the Farmers Market for one hour. And they were kindly waiting for us when we came back a bit late…
So do not hesitate !