I had SO MUCH FUN tonight on the DTLA Mystery Ghost Tour with Chris as our guide!…read more Walking through the streets of downtown LA while learning details about the Black Dahlia, Elisa Lam, Vaughn Greenwood, John Párkinson and others was mesmerizing! We stopped at the Clifton amd before we entered heard all about Clifford Clinton, his efforts to clean up LA, his wife, his mistress, his attempted suicide and finally how all the of the aforementioned managed to find a way to co exist until his death. Chris was well spoken, articulate, funny and very personable. The others on the tour were cool people too- I met two women from my hometown of Boston and ended getting dinner with another couple of people after the walk. The entire experience lasted a little over three hours with bathroom breaks and a martini from the Clifton thrown in the mix. I'm so glad I chose these guys vs a commercialized van on a people safari in LA. I really wanted to experience DTLA from the perspective of a truth seeker, mesmerized by its architecture, history and seedy history. I could feel the energy in some of these places- magical. Highly recommended 5 stars isn't enough! Thanks Chris, you were awesome!

We had a great day with our guide, Paul! Very informative filled with a chock full of interesting…read morefacts! We are native Los Angeles peeps and never rode Angel's Flight. Paul treated us to a ride which made it special! I definitely recommend this tour company!

My 2 teenage daughters, my mother, and myself took the Sights LA/Crenshaw Experience with Mark…read more I've been struggling to write this review for a couple of weeks because I wanted to give a well thought-out, accurate, and influential critique of our experience. The reason why this task is SO important to me is because of multiple reasons. The tour is beyond fabulous. It's informative on several levels; historical stories and significance, present community and cultural awareness, and the future, gentrification, and preservation of community and culture. This is WAY more than a tour. It's an opportunity and an experience that welcomes you with open arms as a VIP guest to their beautiful community. It's truly a wholistic encounter because every element of entertainment is affected. Physically with the walking tour, mentally with the educational nuggets, and spiritually with the infectious love, inspiration, hustle, and camaraderie observed amongst the people in the community. It's a dope experience that is customly curated to each individual tour group. Don't miss out, BOOK THIS TOUR!! You will regret it, if you don't.

From the owner: Sights L.A. is the official Leimert Park Crenshaw District walking tour. We offer three exclusive…read moreLos Angeles Walking tours. Enjoy a one-of-a-kind adventure through the city of Los Angeles. During this tour you will see some scenes from common movies, including where historical events took place, and simply just the best of the Leimert Park Crenshaw District. The places you will go and the people you meet makes the experience priceless. Spaces are limited, so contact us today to make sure you don’t miss out on the experience of a lifetime.

Great host, very interesting venues and stories. The perfect spot to walk around and see history…read morethat still exists.

We did the Kellog house tour and our tour guide was great. She was very knowledagable of the…read morehistory of not just the house, but the surrounding city/cities as well. The length of the tour was well worth the money, I also know that some stories are passed down through history or just lore. We enjoyed our experience and how everyone got into character/dressed as the era. My next goal is to do the Disney mansion tour. See you soon

We booked a tour with Urban Adventures which was awesome! We had a really good time with our tour…read moreguide Jennie. We are all from southern Ca but decided it would be fun to play in our own back yard and it was the best! We leaned things about LA that we did not know! We got to ride the metro the bus and we were gonna ride a bike but we just ran out of time because we took so many pictures and stayed at the farmers market longer than we should have but that was ok because we were really enjoying ourselves. We also went to the LaBrea Tar Pits which was nice because I had never been there! All in All A very good time was held by everyone. We will definitely be signing up for more tours and hopefully Jennie will be out tour guide.

Born and raised in LA I thought I have seen it all. My family and I decided to do this little…read moreadventure to see our city from a different perspective. Well I'm so glad we did. So many things I have never noticed before. Things that I passed by hundreds of times and never paid attention to. Jenny was our tour guide and I could have not asked for a Better guide. I have gone on these types of tours in different cities and always felt very rushed. Jenny was awesome about time she didn't push us to make every location at a specific time. We did the entire tour except for the bike portion and our group was okay with not going that. So we ended up grabbing some dinner and drinks! I will be booking the different tours in the future!

I debated with myself whether to give two or three stars and decided to be generous…read more The experience didn't start out too great. When we made reservations for a certain date, Mr LA surprisingly didn't even take down a name. When we arrived at the appointed place and time, Mr LA wasn't there. We called him and he said he'd be there within 15 minutes. Well, he approximately arrived after that time. We took Mr. LA's Culver City Food tour. For a food tour, I'd expect at least three tastings, hopefully more, but we got only one. We walked by many restaurants and he had something to say about several, but we never went in for a little snack. I got hungrier and hungrier hearing about the diversity, food and otherwise, in Culver City. Near the end of the tour, he finally took us into one place and bought so much of one thing that we couldn't even finish. He could have easily made us much happier by getting only one serving to share at this and two other places, maybe not even with the added chai tea. He wouldn't have spent any more money, but would have made us much happier. Other than the food, he started with some interesting facts, but towards the end, his knowledge kind of fizzled out. At one point, he told us one thing, but the sign next to the place said something different. I assume that whenever he mentioned years or dates, they were only approximate. He was a nice guy and I still learned a bit about Culver City, so I wasn't too disappointed, but I wouldn't take another one of his tours. Especially not for regular price; we had a Groupon. I should also mention that the tour only lasted about two hours, when it was advertised as a three hour tour.

I've been on a couple of MrLA Tours. Tom (the owner of MrLA Tours) is a walking encyclopedia of…read moreLos Angeles. It is astounding how much he knows, and his presentation is interesting and entertaining all at the same time. If you want to take a great walking tour in Los Angeles then you must do a MrLA Tour. I highly recommend it.

When's the last time you went on a walking tour that was accompanied by comedic songbirds and a…read moremelodica? A few weekends ago, I had the pleasure of taking Mojo Maps Expedition Co.'s interactive walking tour of Venice Beach. Two knowledgable and talented tour guides took us on an adventure through Venice Beach's historical landscape -- through Muscle Beach, the Dogtown skaters, and the Beat Poets, all the way back to the neighborhood's birth era of Abbot Kinney and his "Venice of America". I was impressed by founder Chris Eng's passion for Los Angeles and his desire to provide Angelenos with an immersive adventure and the opportunity to step out of their comfort zone, right in their own city. (LA's newcomers and tourists are welcome to join in the fun too, of course!) Chris and his crew are invested in creating an evocative, visceral experience for people that goes far beyond historical dates and events. During the Venice Land tour, we walked leisurely for about 2.5 hours as the tour guides regaled us with stories from every period in Venice Beach's history through comedy, music, and improvisation. Participants were constantly engaged through activities like spray painting (yay for public defacement!), sing-alongs, and an even impromptu "bathing beauty" pageant as a shout-out to Venice Beach of the Roaring 20s. It might be a tour more suitable for extroverts but this semi-introvert was thoroughly entertained. If you have kids, I would say the tour would be great for 10-year-olds and older. There's nothing overtly racy or inappropriate -- I just think the tour would be better appreciated by slightly older kiddos.

I picked the Venice-Land tour as a fun activity to do with my mom who was visiting from out of…read moretown. We had a BLAST! The tour immediately starts off with a song, dance and music which sets the tone for the rest of the day. Kristen and Kimberly were great! They are true performers. Their quirky voices and superb acting combined with a live harmonica player, quickly transforms you back to historic 1920's Venice. As we walked through out the various parts of Venice (canals, muscle beach, and boardwalk) the tour guides pointed out murals, statues, and hidden artifacts that I've seen a dozen times but never gave much thought to, but now know the entire history behind each item. What really set this tour apart from other walking tours I've done before are the group improv games played to bring to life some of the history. Normally I'm a pretty shy person but Kristen did a great job encouraging everyone to participate where there are no right answers! From performing our own impromptu 1920 Beauty Contest to becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger's product development team.... I don't think I have ever laughed so much! This was a great experience and I would highly recommend the tour to anyone looking for a fun afternoon in Venice!

Very cool in every way even for locals and natives of L.A…read more The tours for Destination DTLA are no longer available, but a lot of similar groups have taken it upon themselves to emulate and offer great experiences. We stumbled into two and enjoy our day, but also made our own tour based on DDTLAT. Lot of amazing architecture, art, history, and fun/ From the Spring Arcade to Saint Vincent Court, views from the Westin, eats at Garo's, a stroll near Angel's Flight and loaded more. Your LA Tours seems to have taken over - but they also do tours throughout greater Los Angeles https://www.yourlatours.com/ Parking is easy with several paid lots throughout. If staying at a hotel or closeby you can't go wrong with getting some extra steps in to the start of the tours.

What a fabulous walking tour! I was doing a good friend a favor by taking his friend, who came to…read morevisit from New York, to walk around LA since my friend was working all day. I thought it would be a cool idea to do a walking tour in downtown since it has so much history and great restaurants. We met at the Arcade in the Spring Arcade Building. The tour was about two hours with a mini break at the grand central market. Our tour guide did such a great job at telling the history, of the beautiful buildings and streets around the downtown of LA. This tour was Totally worth it. Thank you Carmen for helping us set up our tour!

Patrick is so knowledgeable, nice and funny. He mentions facts and adds on references to history…read moreand pop culture. Hes a natural entertainer and very engaging. We had a lot of fun exploring the neighborhoods by foot and learning from Patrick. Would highly recommend this to everyone from all ages wether you're visiting or a local. A fun activity to get to know some of the neighborhoods of LA.

I did a tour of Windsor and Hancock Park with Patrick on a lovely Sunday. Patrick's knowledge of…read morethe history and architecture was amazing. Also, he was peppy & fun. I would totally recommend.

Had a fantastic Nature herb walk with William this morning in Griffith Park…read more I'm just beginning to learn about natural Medicinal herbs. William was SO informative about everything he was talking about. I had such a fun time!! We even got serenaded by a group of coyotes, wandering in the hills. I would recommend this to anyone ! ! ! !

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The tour itself with Big Mike was worth it. He's a gifted story teller and shares his own personal…read moreexperiences & insights that adds an authentic value to the tour. The two stars go to Big Mike holding down this bizness. The cons: The night before Purchased dual package tour: La Hood Life and Hollywood tour for $125 a person. A Text message sent at 2am said to meet up at 930am, which we didn't see until parking in the garage at 930am. We get there at 937am to check in, our tour gets verified with the owner (bald slick brother in a all white T parked a glossy badass Benz). At 10am the rest of our tour group arrives. They wait on the opposite end of us because our tours are separate. At 1010am we get verified the 3rd time that we have both tours booked, then offered a seat in the open air tour truck. At 1035 we get verified again & told to get off the open air tour truck and get a seat on the white van with everyone else, that our Hollywood tour would be after we get back from the Hood tour, Mind you the tour I booked was described as 3.5 hrs, quick & to the point. Instead We end up on a nearly 4 hours long tour of the hood. We got back to the pickup location at 230pm. 5 hrs in total wasted mostly by waiting around, watching a verbal argument btwn Mooney, the owner & Big Mike but he seemed to stay out of it. The complaining and arguing and cussing was authentic, cuz Mooney's frustration was real & felt. Yet I think his hissy fit led to all the chaos & waiting around we had to do. We're out $80 because that how much more we paid than everyone else on our tour. I left feeling "Debow-ed" with my tourist chain getting yanked off! Not to mention, the Van sound system went out by blasting uncontrollable screeching noise every time the Van was started back up. This screeching assault to our hearing happened about 9 times. Painful!!! Plus we were stuck in the heat with no AC. Haha it was so ridiculously awful, that looking back I can only laugh. Luckily we broke down close to a small store & bought cold drinks & snacks while the wiring was figured out to the sound system. The rest of the tour the microphone didn't work so the people in the back couldn't hear Big Mike's awesome story telling, and their nonstop complaining behind me was distracting AF. Lastly what we were overcharged $80, should be given to Big Mike and lil sum for Mooney cuz Mooney was mad as hell and I could tell by his high level cussing he can tell a story too.

My boyfriend booked this tour for my birthday! If you are a hip hop fan! This tour is a MUST! Big…read moreMike is the BEST tour guide and I highly recommend him. He is so passionate about his community and I learned a lot about LA and got to take some amazing pictures for great memories.