So after a overnight trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles (and surprisingly well rested) on the American favourite ground transport, the greyhound. Haru had to return back to Japan early for work reasons (yeah, on our honeymoon, that’s what Japan thinks of newly married couples – they should cut honeymoons short for work reasons). So half of the day was spent navigating our way to LAX, and then working out how to leave the airport and get to my Wimdu booked accommodation just off Hollywood Boulevard. I strongly suggest to book your accommodation early by searching best places to stay online to get the best offer. I think in total, I got a train, bus, group shared mini-bus and the subway. It seemed to take forever and I can see why everyone has a car or hire limousines like 2021 Rolls Royce Cullinan Chauffeur Services.
Anyway, I’ll try not to moan too much like a typical Brit on holiday. But seriously LA – sort your public transportation out, you can use virtually any other country in the world as an example on how to improve your tourists ability to get around for those who don’t drive, or just don’t want to spend their time in your city in a traffic jam.
Ahem, I digress.
So downtown LA, from Greyhound, get uber taxi to train station, train station to a train near LAX, then another bus (paid for private company, not part of the general public transport to help people get to the airport) to the airport to say goodbye, followed by another shared bus company to get back into Hollywood. It was a mess and a lot of transfers just to go to an from the airport.
So anyway, now in Hollywood, why’s a guy to do? Well the star walk of course. As that’s pretty much the only thing to do there, anything else apart from watching a movie at the Chinese Theatre requires more transportation away. I was tempted by the tours on offer by guys hanging out at the side of the street, but had the feeling if I had planned this in advance I could have gotten a better deal. Because of all the time navigating LA’s transportation structure, I was out at late afternoon by the time I got to think about any tourist attractions, and quite frankly I didn’t want to be driven around in a bus looking at some celebrities houses in the dark. Maybe that was because I don’t care about celebrities or because I didn’t want to pay $60 for a drive around at night after already spending most of the day waiting and transporting.
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