trip report

Arrived in LA on sat 27th Oct and stayed at the grafton hotel on sunset.

Sun 28th - got a taxi to century city shopping mall. We then went to the Grove and had dinner at farmers market. We lastly finished our day of shopping at the beverly centre. In the evening we ate at cafe med, on sunset which was really nice.

Mon 29th - had breakfast at mels diner, then went for a walk. In the afternoon we went back to the beverly centre for a little more shopping. We had dinner that night at the saddle ranch, the portions are huge therefore we were to full to ride the bull!.

tue 30th - went to hollywood blvd and did the tour of the kodak theatre, it only lasted 30 mins but was worth a look and the $15. We then went to paramount for the studio tour, this tour lasted around 2 hours and was $35, we really enjoyed this tour. At night we went to hyde lounge and boa which was located in our hotel.

wed 31st - went to universal studios, which we would reccommend. That night we walked to the halloween parade on santa monica blvd, it was really busy and there was every costume that you could ever imagine!. We ate at the chin chin grill on sunset.

thur 1st - we went to rodeo drive to do our last bits of shopping!. Got the bus back to our hotel and didnt get lost, which is a first!. we met some really nice people at the bus stop. That night we ate at cafe med again then went to saddle ranch, boa and sky bar for drinks, Had too much wine and felt ill on the flight home!!.

overall we had a excellent trip to LA.

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Glad you enjoyed your stay. What a treat that you were able to enjoy the West Hollywood Halloween Carneval during your stay. I was there aswell, we should have met for a drink or so. Well, maybe next time.

Nice that you met some cool people on the bus, as apparently some people on this forum still think that only homelesspeople and drugaddicts take a bus in L.A. So it is always good to hear from visitors to give us some feedback while taking the bus or navigating around L.A.

I like Cafe Med aswell, from there patio you can do some excellend people(and car) watching, that%26#39;s for sure

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Your trip sounds great. Glad you had a chance to experience Halloween on Santa Monica Blvd.

It seems that you didn%26#39;t see about half of LA though since you didn%26#39;t visit the Getty or any of the beach areas and Beverly Hills around Sunset Blvd etc. Was that on purpose or you decided to skip it because you didn%26#39;t want to spend an hour or more on the bus to go there?

Alex always takes things out of context to promote his personal agenda here. No one ever said there is anything wrong with taking the bus for short distances from Hollywood to Beverly Hills, and noone has ever said about homeless people taking the bus. What others constantly tell him on the forum is that it%26#39;s not convenient to see other farther parts of LA by bus and that%26#39;s why those who can afford a car, use it to commute for longer distances. In fact, it seems that this poster only saw half of LA and had to miss some of the best parts because they didn%26#39;t have a car and the commute was too long and inconvenient by bus.

This is a tripreport, nothing to do with any persons personal agenda(did not know i had one) And for future refrences, it would be nice (and helpfull) to not get into personal attacks on this board. Especially mentioning my name and going after me in the matter you just did

As always you do a disservice to this bard by doing so.

The poster had a great trip, saw what they wanted to see. They took the bus to Beverly Hills, if they wanted to, they could have taken the bus for another 20 minutes to see the beach. How come you assume now that they did not had a trip that YOU wanted them to have

Maybe they have seen the beach before, maybe they are living by a beach, maybe it%26#39;s not of there interest. October/november are not really beach months. L.A.is not really a beach town either

Again, just assumptions on your part, would be nice to stop it. I am glad the poster had a nice trip, even - god forbids-taking the bus while on vacation

You should not be using trip reports on this forum to promote your personal agenda as you did here, i.e. ';as apparently some people on this forum still think that only homelesspeople and drugaddicts take a bus in L.A. ';

Guys, please don%26#39;t spoil another great trip report thread. Just ignore each other, pretend the other doesn%26#39;t exist. Better yet, let each to his own; everyone has their own advice and their own feelings about visiting this great city.

Nic - sounds like a great trip. The great thing about that neighborhood (and hotel), is that you get a sense of what it%26#39;s like to live here, when you stay within a certain neighborhood. Sounds like you went to all the great people watching places!

Thanks yogachick. I%26#39;ve already mentioned several times that everyone has their own opinion and this is a free forum to post it. Posters asking questions can decide on their own based on various opinions what they prefer to do. That%26#39;s the whole point of these forums and there is no need to argue to try to prove that your opinion is correct. That is why it is an ';opinion'; and everyone is allowed to post theirs freely.

Nice to hear about your your trip Nic, sounds like you guys had a lot of fun =)

alexie %26amp; smartie: I am new here, but I noticed you guys are constantly fighting over what the right thing to do is, sadly both of you taking shots against each other. Who cares who started it, it is very unnecessary to keep acting like that, just think about how that represents this otherwise wonderful site.

Keep giving your valuable advise, but please be nice to each other!

Thanks, a future LA visitor =)

Hey NicSheffield, glad to hear you had a great time. If you only have time to see the tiny sliver of LA that you visited, you did quite well.

I%26#39;ll hope you come back with a bit more time to see the rest of our incredible metropolis--from Malibu to the newly revitalized downtown to the many fascinating neighborhoods (Venice, Silverlake, Little Toyko and others). It will take a car to get the wildly varied flavor of Los Angeles, but you will love it.

Thanks for visiting!