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Beverly Hills

Following a slightly more restful night, we ate a hearty American breakfast and headed out on the Metro to Hollywood to catch the City Sightseeing bus tour.

The Metro station opens up onto the ‘Walk of Fame’ sidewalk with all the celebrities names embedded in stars on it. It was all a bit tacky but it’s tourist entertainment so that’s the way it’s going to be.

The bus took us through the Sunset Strip and into Beverly Hills then dropped us off on Rodeo Drive.

The cafe we bought a quick drink from was brilliantly named :0)

The next bus we were due to take had broken down, so we had to wait another 40 minutes for a replacement to turn up. Once it did we headed down to Santa Monica beach (where Baywatch used to be filmed). This time the bus driver came to a halt 2 stops short of our destination and told us he was finished for the day, could we walk down to the beach and catch the next bus!

We were very disappointed with Santa Monica, it’s very dirty and looks nothing like it does on TV. There is a pier that sells nothing but junk food and creaks under the weight of all the obese people stuffing their faces. There is a nicer area a bit further up the coast, but there isn’t a bus stop there.

The next bus arrived 30 minutes late! We were a bit fed up at wasting so much time by this point but the second half of the tour was much better. We drove through Beverly Hills again, then on into Hollywood, finally seeing the infamous sign (from a distance). We saw most of the TV studios, quite funny to see where the cast of Glee go to work. It all seemed quite normal.

So all in all, while it was nice enough, about 80% of the tour was ‘look, there’s a shopping mall’ and ‘look there’s a shopping mall where Brad Pitt bought shampoo’ with endless driving through identical streets.

Also, they kept calling everything ‘the best in the world’ when it quite clearly wasn’t. The American lady in front of us rolled her eyes a few times.

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