The Best Hollywood Bus Tour for Your Trip

The best Hollywood bus tour for most first-time visitors is a tour with stops, not the two-hour loop: Guideline Tours’ small-group city tour if you want comfort and a guide you can hear, or Hollywood City Tours’ LA Grand Tour if you want the whole city in a day with the roof off. If you only have two hours, Hollywood Bus Tours’ open-air celebrity homes loop is the most booked for a reason.

Check dates for the small-group city tour

Every operator drives roughly the same route, so the choice comes down to four things: how long you have, whether you want a roof, whether you want to get off, and how many people share the bus.

If you have two hours

Book Hollywood Bus Tours’ Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Celebrity Homes Open-Air Bus Tour, from US$32. It is the most booked Hollywood bus tour on GetYourGuide, with 2,905 reviews at 4.5, it leaves from the Walk of Fame, and its route covers Mulholland Drive, celebrity homes, the Beverly Hills Sign, Rodeo Drive and the Sunset Strip. Live commentary is in English and Spanish, with an optional audio guide in other languages.

If you want a Hollywood Sign photo stop in the same two hours, Golden Ticket LA’s small-group open-air bus, from US$21, lists ten minutes at a sign viewpoint and plays film clips on screens as you pass the locations.

If you have half a day

Hollywood Bus Tours’ Best of LA City Tour with Stops and Free Time, from US$59, is the one to beat: five and a half hours on a climate-controlled coach, 45 minutes on the Walk of Fame, half an hour in Beverly Hills, 45 minutes at Santa Monica Pier, lunch at The Grove and the sign from Griffith Observatory, rated 4.6 from 2,509 reviews.

Guideline Tours’ Small Group City Tour, from US$89, costs more and has the best rating of any tour here, 4.9 from 198 reviews. The bus is a minibus with about ten seats and large windows, pickup is from selected hotels, and the day adds Downtown and Walt Disney Concert Hall. One August 2026 reviewer put the difference simply: a small group felt far more personal than the big coaches.

If you want the whole day

Hollywood City Tours’ LA Grand Tour by Open-Air Bus, from US$76, is seven hours with the roof off: the Sunset Strip, an hour at Santa Monica Pier, an hour at the Original Farmers Market, Rodeo Drive and Griffith Observatory. A Day in LA’s full-day city tour, from US$93 and rated 4.8, adds Venice Beach and pickup from more than 150 hotels, in an air-conditioned vehicle.

See the LA Grand Tour by open-air bus

If you want freedom over a guide

A hop-on hop-off ticket lets you stay as long as you like at each stop. Big Bus’s 24-hour ticket starts at US$59, with a Hollywood route and a beach route. You lose the live guide, and the ratings are lower: 3.8 from 1,357 reviews. The hop-on hop-off guide compares Big Bus and Starline.

The picks side by side

Prices and ratings as listed on GetYourGuide in October 2026.

The tours that rate lowest here are the hop-on hop-off buses and a few celebrity homes tours below 4.0, such as Starline’s celebrity homes and lifestyle tour at 3.9. The difference in price between a 3.9 and a 4.5 tour is a few dollars, so it is rarely worth saving on. The price guide has every price in one place.