Hollywood Sightseeing Tours

My friend and i had missed out on another more expensive tour earlier in the day. We were gonna just walk the blvd, but came across this place and immediately checked it out as a tour bus was just about to leave. It was half what we were going to pay the other service. Score! Our driver had been in the business for 27 years and we was entertaining as hell. We played a lot of trivia and he shared all of his celebrity stories, being a life long local There was only 8 of us on the tour, but i tell you the intimacy made all the difference. We saw all the sights we wanted to and star after stars homes. We had a lot of laughs and photo ops. I was definitely happy we chose to take the gamble. Hello to our friends from perth australia who had joined the tour with us! A grand time was had by all and I certainly will encourage friends visiting the area to support this business p. s: bring something to drink. The tour is 2.5 hours or so. I guess also use the bathroom if you need to. Ha.

I think this company hires random guys on Hollywood Blvd. to bait tourists into taking one of their tours for a cut of the money. Anyway, me and a friend who was visiting from GA, ended up getting a really good deal on the Hollywood/​Beverly Hills tour from some random guy who was passing out flyers to passers by. Although we were apprehensive about taking this tour instead of the more popular «big red bus tour», we were so glad that we did because it was actually worth the $ 20/​each that we paid! The tour was 3 hours long in a ‘convertible’ van and we visited Hollywood landmarks, drove by famous homes in Beverly Hills (including the Playboy Mansion!), and had a chance to take a 15-​minute walk down Rodeo Drive. It was lots of fun and the next time I have out of town guests who want to visit Hollywood, I’ll go looking for any one of the random guys on Hollywood Blvd. passing out flyers for this company and take this tour again.

I had a really good experience on the open bus tour. My two cousins from Minnesota came to LA to visit and wanted to do some sight-​seeing. I was working and wasn’t able to be much of a tour guide. They arranged a tour with this guy, Scott, & I left work a little early to join them. I thought I was pretty knowlegeable about Hollywood, so I really wasn’t that interested in going. I couldn’t really say no to my cousins, though. We had a really good time and lots of laughs. Scott had some great Hollywood stories I wasn’t even aware of. (Also found that Scott speaks French. I was impressed.) Have to say the highlight, though, was driving in front of David Beckam’s house. What great timing! He was actually in front of the house and waved at us! The cousins loved it! Only in Hollywood.

I was leaving California in 2 days and I had not yet visited Hollywood and Beverly Hills-​Gosh, I needed to figure out a way to go to these two places. So I figured out the cheapest way that I could do this was to rent a bike and explore these places by myself.
Got on Unilocal (yes, this is the first site I go to every time I need some local business information)-and Hollywood Tours and Bike Rentals showed up, with a one star review. Umm, went to their website anyway, and the rental price was a big turn on – it was so freaking cheap! But… it has only one star review. Well, I thought to myself, screw it, I needed the bike, I needed to see Hollywood and Beverly Hills in one day! (And this guy-​called Scott, actually defended the legitimacy of his business, and he sounded super nice on the phone when I called him up, so, I might as well give it a chance.)
To be honest, Scott’s bike business did look a bit sketchy at the start. He did not have a business premise, and he asked me to wait for him at a spot when I arrived at the Walk of Fame. The one star review by Hans D came to my mind and I was like, OMG, is it a prank or what? Scott showed up shortly after, and boy, renting a bike from him was one of the best decisions I made from the LA trip.
First, he was super-​duper nice and cool! He is from France but he speaks fluent English. All he asked from me were my photo identification, and the fee for an all day rental, which was cheap!!! The other bike shops offer much higher rates, and they are like far far away from Hollywood.
I am small framed, and he had a bike that I could ride comfortably (yes, so comfy!) that fitted my height.
That was the start of January 2012. He had about 6 or 7 bikes that time, and he was going to have a business premise soon. So come on, he was not like a scammer as the other one review said, he is just one cycling aficionado trying to start out his small business of renting bikes to people who love biking like him. Having a proper place to do business requires upfront investment, but he was getting around to do it.
Thanks to the bike, I managed to explore the whole West Hollywood in one day (it is an awesome experience by the way and I recommend biking to anyone who like to explore hard-​to-​go-​by-​bus-​places. I went all the way to the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills down to the Groove Farmers Market and came back up to Hollywood.)
Thanks Scott, I hope you all the best, and your business will fly off soon!

Do yourself a favor, and don’t bother calling this company. It is run by a guy who knows nothing about customer service and will treat potential customers like garbage. Probably because he runs this «business» on his own out of his apartment.
I made a reservation for 3 bikes. I called the day of just to see if I could get a better price on them, the manager Scott flipped out on me and accused me of trying to hustle him and refused to rent the bikes to me at all. It was clear that someone offered him more money for the bikes and he decided to rent to them.
This ruined my plans for the weekend, and I really did not appreciate the accusations he made at me on the phone. Do not call this place!