One weekend, two days and 43 hours in Los Angeles. In this blogpost you can read how my friends and me spend the weekend in L.A. Don’t waste time and be precious on what you wanna see in that short time.
Spring is one of the best times for travelling to L.A. Because of this me and my friend In decided to do our first weekend trip. Firstly I asked my host parents if I can be off from Friday night till Monday morning and then I asked Paula and Jessica from Austria and Lena from Germany.
Friday
Friday night we flew from San Francisco International Airport to LAX. We rented a car at the airport and then immediately drove to our hostel, which was located right next to Santa Monica Beach.
Saturday
In the morning we got up very early and went to the Santa Monica Beach. There you can find a sign which says end of Route 66/Santa Monica Beach. The Route 66 starts in Chicago and ends in Santa Monica. After that we drove to the Hollywood Sign which was on the top of LA. We parked our car and then went up the hill for about 45 minuets.
Remember: You can’t drive up the whole way to the Hollywood sign.
The way down took us a little bit longer because Jess and me were chatting too much and so we took the wrong way. Paula and Lena were very annoyed but they still loved us.
This is how the way looks when driving to the Sign. You can park your car in theses streets and then you have to walk up to see the sign:
Malibu & Venice Beach
After a very exhausting but thrilling hike we drove to Malibu Beach. I think almost everybody knows Malibu from different movies. In the evening we went out for dinner at Venice Beach. Later in the evening Lena and me drove to Hollywood. We were really lucky because on that weekend the Oscar nominations took place there. We walked into the Dolby Theatre and we saw all the preparations they made for this big day. We saw the red carped, oscar figures and a lot of reporters.
Sunday
On Sunday we drove to Hollywood again, because Jessica and Paula didn’t see it yet. We walked on the Walk of Fame and checked out the Dolby Theatre. After a while we were thinking of buying a Hollywood map where there are all addresses of the stars on it. But we decided to just drive to the Hollywood hills. When we were driving to Beverly Hills we saw somebody in a black car next to street who was selling Star Maps. We bought it for just 5 dollars.
Buy a Beverly Hills Map if you wanna see the homes of the stars!
Lena was totally into Leonardo Di Caprio and she wanted to check out his house. So we searched the address and drove to his house. His house was directly in the Hollywood Hills. We went up the hills on very curvy streets and then we finally arrived. Lena couldn’t stop believing that she was in front of Leonardo di Caprios house, which was a very funny moment, Paula was a little bit annoyed, Jessica was driving and I was laughing a lot because of Lenas reactions. We spent 5 min. at the house, after that a whole Security Team came outside the house with mad views. Because of this we decided to drive back.
If you are lucky, then you can meet stars at the Rodeo Drive or in Hollywood.
In the afternoon we drove again to the Walk of Fame because we were wondering if we could meet some stars. Unfortunately we didn’t see anybody. So we sat down at a Pub and watched the show on the TV.
Monday morning we took an early flight home. It was a really funny and exhausting weekend.