FabSwingers.com forum: LA recomendations?

By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Anyone been? I hear its a cultural desert.

I'm off on Tuesday to perform for ten days and looking for groovy places off the beaten track please

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Get the fuck outta there - I loathe LA

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Barren, soulless, cultural wasteland... one of the most segregated cities I've been to in the US

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I went in '96...

I wouldn't go again

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By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Oh don't Joe

Not looking forward to it as it is.

Any redeeming features? Anything?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

been once many years ago and wouldn't want to go back x

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By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Crumbs

Sounds like I should just get on with work rather try and be a tourist

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Meh, cry all the way to the beach.....

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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

i understand from hip-hop songs that gang-banging is popular, so that could be a plus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anyone been? I hear its a cultural desert.

I'm off on Tuesday to perform for ten days and looking for groovy places off the beaten track please"
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Off the beaten track... You really want to avoid if you like living!

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

My mate went to visit LA and couldn't find it

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

if you get the chance whilst in LA to go down to San Diego then do.....

but for LA itself.... I got nothin!! i don't like the place either!!!

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Read a Harry Bosch story by Michael Connolly, that might give you a feel for Hollywood and LA

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rent a 64 impala and go cruising down the street

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ohhhhhhhhh take me with you op n just dump me outside Axls house

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

if you want to do the tourist route try Manns Chinese Theatre, and the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel is where they first held the Oscars..

you could do a studio tour or go to Disneyland..

depends what it is you are looking for tbh

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Is the blue oyster still the "in place" to go?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didntmind it there...Whisky a go go is a decent place to go

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By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Rent a 64 impala and go cruising down the street

*Packs driving licence*

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By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"if you want to do the tourist route try Manns Chinese Theatre, and the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel is where they first held the Oscars..

you could do a studio tour or go to Disneyland..

depends what it is you are looking for tbh"

Non tourist, alternative stuff ideally. Though I think a day at Universal has been scheduled in the itinerary. Rollercoasters!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Non touristy stuff with very little prior knowledge is difficult in LA. But the last time I went i was staying with a friend doing a semester at UCLA.

Its probably a great place to live but a horrible place to visit, as I didn't enjoy my first trip there with my family when I was 17.

Having someone who lived there meant that we could do some really low key things such as rooftop movie screenings, crashing open houses for free mimosas, yoga in the park every day.

However, being a huge movie nerd, go on a studio tour. They're tacky and touristy, but i saw Emma Stone on the WB one and my 17 year old self couldn't handle it.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
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over a year ago

Central

I've never liked the place and visited a few times. Get out if you. Virgin America are a great budget airline who fly from there internally. Order your drinks and snacks via the seat screen, once you've left.

I did a tedious city tour, including celeb homes. Driving is a nightmare. Get away to the So Cal coast, possibly commute, even by air - I've used commuter flight services there.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Get the fuck outta there - I loathe LA"

Ditto.

Probably the most over hyped city in the world, and just don't get me on about the fucking traffic.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

went many years ago, not a nice experience..

wont go back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I bet the OP wishes she hadn't posted

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By *ouplefunukCouple
over a year ago

North Bristol

Leave! Either North or South along g the coast is lush. Santa Monica is beautiful as is San Luis Obispo.

Venice beach is (was) good for people watching.

*Him*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Rent a 64 impala and go cruising down the street

*Packs driving licence*"
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Did you ever see that Robbie Coltrane series.

He hired a convertible to go from Vegas to LA.

When he got there the local guy was shocked, he said nobody drives that road with the top down, there's hillbillies in the mountains that like to pop people in the head with high powered rifles

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By *carlet_heavenWoman
over a year ago

somewhere in the sticks

LA is beautiful if you know where to go…

The Getty Museum is amazing…as a piece of Architecture & because of its exhibits. They usually have a visiting exhibition & the one I saw was brilliant. Its up in the mountains & the view across LA is absolutely worth it.

The Huntington Library in San Marino is well worth a visit…they have work by famous British artists that you can't see here now…Gainsborough, Turner & many interesting artefacts that belonged to people such as Thomas Telford & James Watt.

Both places have wonderful gardens that are unusual because of their climate.

The Farmers market is also worth a look & has a fab view of Downtown LA.

Newport & Laguna Beach (PCH) are worth visiting as is Pasadena & Mission Vejio. Further away field Death Valley, Yosemite & Carmel (like Devonshire).

I don't like anywhere touristy & I'd spent a lot of time in LA before I found these places…it changed my mind totally about the place

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By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"I bet the OP wishes she hadn't posted "

Aye

I'm working most of the time so traveling out isn't much of an option

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By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

But thank you all for the recommendations

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

The RMS Queen Mary and Howard Hugh's Spruce Goose are both at Longbeach.

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By *iSTARess OP Woman
over a year ago

London

What an absolute dump. Had fun, Venice was lovely but hideous place in all

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