This incredible excursion is available for both visitors to Los Angeles and cruise guests either before or after their cruise. After meeting your guide at a convenient location and hopping aboard the transportation, your half day of highlights sightseeing will get underway. Your guided trip will be conducted in English, however, headset pre-recorded narrations are available in Mandarin Chinese, Fr
ench, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish on the morning departure. Depending on the number of the guests, your journey through Los Angeles will be on a double-decker bus or a mini-bus. You will travel through Hollywood for some drive-by sightseeing, down Melrose Avenue where the Kardashian sisters have their boutique D-A-S-H, get a passing glimpse of the nightclubs on Sunset Strip, marvel at Miracle Mile the first neighborhood designed with the automobile in mind, enjoy the sights in LA’s own Chinatown and see the revitalization efforts of Downtown LA. Your first stop will be the distinctive Hollywood Bowl amphitheater, the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the host of hundreds of musical events each year. You’ll have approximately 15 minutes to get a good look of Hollywood Hills and the iconic Hollywood sign from this location. Next, you will stop and visit the TCL Chinese Theatre, a movie palace on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame. Its famous forecourt immortalized the handprints and footprints of more than 200 celebrities. In front of the theater, you’ll also be able to see some of the more than 2,600 stars embedded in the sidewalks bearing the names of a mix of actors, musicians, directors, producers, musical and theatrical groups and fictional characters along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You will also get a chance to see the Dolby Theatre where the Academy Awards ceremony and the live shows of America's Got Talent are recorded. You will stop at The Grove in the historic Farmers’ Market, Los Angeles’s largest open-air market. Rest and enjoy the large central park area with its animated fountain or enjoy live shows performed at the base of the statue The Spirit of Los Angeles. Once you’ve relaxed a little, be sure to stop at some of the more than 140 shops, boutiques, cafes, and markets, including over 60 fashion outlets found in the marketplace’s nearly 600,000 square feet of retail space. You will have approximately 45 minutes to purchase lunch or browse. The La Brea Tar Pits have been seeping natural asphalt to the earth’s surface for tens of thousands of years making it one of the most important and unique geological features in Southern California. This area has been classified as a National Natural Landmark and the nearby George C. Page Museum exhibits the fossilized bones of animals from the Ice Age that became trapped in the tar. Your photo stop will be 15 minutes. Your trip wouldn’t be complete without a visit to Olvera Street, Los Angeles’s downtown historic district which is part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. You will have 20 minutes to see the tree-shaded marketplace which has a variety of craft shops, restaurants, and roving troubadours along with some of the oldest Los Angeles monuments including the Avila Adobe, the oldest existing home in the city and a California Historic Landmark, built in 1818. Make sure to book your excursion and explore all that Los Angeles has to offer!
