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Me and the wife are thinking of going next year for my 40th? Any recommendations?
For a special treat try Meadowood for a bit bait. Not cheap though but worth it for your 40th.Me and the wife are thinking of going next year for my 40th? Any recommendations?
How strange, apart from staying in the Hollywood Hills for the LA part, that’s exactly what me and the missus did in 2017Recently did Las Vegas, San Francisco and LA in 2 weeks.
We really enjoyed it all.
If you go to Las Vegas, try spent a day at the Grand Canyon, it’s truly breathtaking.
3 or 4 days in Las Vegas is enough, a lot of fun amazing hotels and shows but full on.
San Francisco is an amazing city, we really liked there and we were lucky with the weather. We spent 6 days there, based in Fisherman’s Wharf which is really handy for everything.
Los Angeles is fun too, you can easily get to Santa Monica beach from LA if you get too hot. You wouldn’t need more than 4 days or so to see the usual sights.
I never drove when we were out there. In all 3 cities we used a combination of hop on hope tourist buses and Uber cabs, transport costs were reasonable.
We stayed in West Hollywood.How strange, apart from staying in the Hollywood Hills for the LA part, that’s exactly what me and the missus did in 2017
LA is a shit hole. San Diego really is America's finest city and flights there are generally cheaper than elsewhere. San Fransisco is nice with lots to do but it's bloody cold.
If you like wine then there are some tremendous vineyards all over the state. Hire a car and just drive around.
Stayed at a hotel next door to it, Hilton iircWe stayed in West Hollywood.
Did you go to Universal Studios too? -)
People saying LA is a shithole
Ignore the half heads OP it's a brilliant city
The best thing about LA though is head north, east or south and you’re spoilt for choice. For me, heading south I really like Laguna Beach. To the east, Yosemite, but going via Lone Pine and Mammoth Lakes is a great route with tons of interesting stops, particularly Bodie, google it. To the north, Solvang, although a bit odd and in particular San Luis Obispo are beautiful places.
Absolutely this!
Even at the very least, It’s a great place to start. At least spend some time in LA, we hired a local guide who was brilliant, do this, you’ll get an overview of the central LA touristy stuff within a day and tick that box. From memory it cost about $150 for the day and that was her using her own car and spending something like 10 hours taking us places and giving us tours. LA is something else in terms of popular culture, whatever you’re in to, there’s so much to see.
There’s also stuff like Universal Studios in LA which is imho better than Florida. We went for my sons 10th birthday and it was a great day out. Then there’s Griffiths Observatory, Beverley Hills, Santa Monica, the pier is a great place to spend an early evening.
Walk it once and see the Shirley Temple/Marilyn Monroe hotel but avoid Hollywood Boulevard and all that shite, stay up near Glendale, there’s a great and not too expensive hotel called The Garland opened in the 60s by a Hollywood actress, cool bar, nice food and a great pool and they show movies on a drop down screen at night. It’s Hollywood and you’re on holiday. What’s not to like? When we were there Spandau Ballet were staying. My wife got chatting to the guitar tech around the pool and we got backstage passes to their gig later in the week in Santa Ynez.
The best thing about LA though is head north, east or south and you’re spoilt for choice. For me, heading south I really like Laguna Beach. To the east, Yosemite, but going via Lone Pine and Mammoth Lakes is a great route with tons of interesting stops, particularly Bodie, google it. To the north, Solvang, although a bit odd and in particular San Luis Obispo are beautiful places.