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Los Angeles Tips For Travellers : Must-Do and Must-See Things

…com/photos/neilarmstrong2/ Join me as we head off to the glamorous city of Los Angeles, home of movies, film and TV stars. I’ve been to Los Angeles many times, both for work and for pleasure, and I have a love/hate relationship with the city. Those of you who’ve been there probably understand that. Sometimes when I go, I get it and I love the city. Other times I just find it busy, sprawling, beige and uninteresting. So, in this review, I’m going t…

Cunard World Cruise Week 4 Highlights (Guatemala to San Francisco)

…ork and wide choice. Day 23 (Monday 1 February) Day One at Sea en route to Los Angeles With continued glassy flat sea, warm bright sun and rich blue skies we kept hugging the coastline of Mexico as we sailed north towards Los Angeles. Throughout the day pods of dolphins were spotted leaping out of the ocean on their own journey to wherever they were heading. The Bridge advised over the public address system that we should expect to see more sea li…

PODCAST 17: SANTA MONICA, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

PODCAST 17: SANTA MONICA, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

…ation http://www.bergamotstation.com/ http://www.frommers.com/destinations/losangeles/A32051.html 5) if you need some entertainment there are 20 movie screens in town of the fun santa monica pier http://www.santamonicapier.org/ http://www.playlandarcade.com/ http://www.healthebay.org/smpa/ 6) Shopping is all around th 3rd avenue pedestrian area http://www.thirdstreetpromenade.com/ 7) You must visit the famous muscle beach 8) The Palisades Park run…

Tips for Travellers Travel Podcast 111 – Los Angeles California

…t I give my tips and advice for visitors to the capital of movies and TV – Los Angeles. In addition to giving an overview of the city and tips on getting there, getting around and where to stay I share the must do things to do in Los Angeles focused around six main themes: Movies and television Glamor and wealth Beaches Commerce Special interest groups Arts and culture To listen to the podcast for free: iTunes: subscribe for free to the Tips for T…

Los Angeles Luxury Hotels – The London West Hollywood

…he London West Hollywood Los Angeles Pool. Posing essential There are many Los Angeles luxury hotels of course, though one of them that positions itself as being one of the trendy ones is The London West Hollywood. Situated just off Sunset Boulevard, it is inside a building that is fairly unremarkable but inside they have tried to make it super hip. The pool up on the roof was quite an experience as it was busy and full of a mix of beautiful peopl…

Podcast 37: Los Angeles California

Podcast 37: Los Angeles California

…Universal Studio Tour view, originally uploaded by garybembridge. The latest podcast in my TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS: GLOBAL TRAVEL DESTINATION series is about Los Angeles, California. This is the 37th podcast in the series To subscribe to my podcast series in itunes: click here To download and listen to just this podcast, right click this link and save the file to your desktop Show notes and article to use with the podcast will follow!…

Hotel Room Review: Sofitel Los Angeles

Hotel Room Review: Sofitel Los Angeles

…el but a brilliant location with Beverly Mall opposite and seemingly zillions of very good places to eat around (every night we had some celebrity at a table next to us). Sofitel Los Angeles: Room 415 Originally uploaded by garybembridge. The comfy bed in Room 415. Click here to see all my Sofitel Hotel Photos…

Tips for Travellers: Palm Springs – California: Strange and fabulous

…dios were not contractually allowed to be further than 100 miles away from Los Angeles. The distance that Palm Springs conveniently is away from Los Angeles. It led to the city becoming a star studded place, with every major star through the 1940s into the 1970s either visiting here regularly or owning property here. This legacy can also be seen in many of the streets named after stars like Dinah Shore, Kirk Douglas, Bob Hope and even President Ge…

Fairmont Hotel Santa Monica, Los Angeles (Hotel Review and Video)

Fairmont Hotel Santa Monica, Los Angeles (Hotel Review and Video)

I was at this hotel for 5 nights, over the weekend before a business meeting held at the hotel and then for 3 nights for the meeting. I would rate this as a very good hotel to stay at for business, but glad to have been there on a trip as we had been considering it for a short vacation hotel when we visit Santa Monica later in the year. I would not recommend it as a vacation hotel. The hotel is roomy, on very nice lush grounds and is very well ma…

Queen Mary Ship and Hotel (Long Beach, California): is this old icon of a ship worth visiting today?

Queen Mary Ship and Hotel (Long Beach, California): is this old icon of a ship worth visiting today?

…126 Queens Hwy. Long Beach, Ca. 90802. You get there by heading south from Los Angeles on any Freeway (405, 91, 105) to the 710 South. The Queen Mary is located at the very end of the 710 Freeway in Long Beach. The ship has now been there sitting at the same berth for significantly longer than it was actually in service. The ship arrived there in 1967, and so has been there for coming up to a staggering 40 years. Long Beach authorities paid a few…

Panama Canal

Cunard World Cruise Week 3 Highlights (Aruba to Guatemala via Panama Canal)

…ments. It would take between three to eight working days to ship bags from Los Angeles or San Francisco home. Prior to setting off on our voyages I had considered essential shipping bags home from our final cruise stop of Hong Kong. To give an indication of the scale of prices of the White Star Luggage service, these were the prices I was given for shipping from there to London: 1-14 kgs -297.42 GBP, 15-23 kgs -424.44 GBP and 24-34 kgs -550.20 GBP…