First time visitors can find Los Angeles thrilling and demanding in equal measures. The rambling city sprawls across a thousand square miles of desert basin in southern California. It has gradually swallowed up eighty separate towns and today Los Angeles is a series of distinctive city areas knitted together by an intricate network of freeways. The city’s sheer scale is awesome and getting around without a car is difficult. There are express buses available for non-drivers. And, surprisingly, the districts of Santa Monica, Pasadena, Beverley Hills and central Hollywood are best explored by foot. Los Angeles is a city that picks you up and sweeps you along with its fine art museums, restaurants, shops and bars. Holidays in Los Angeles epitomize the American Dream with its fantasy worlds of Disneyland and Hollywood and the extravagant opulence of Beverley Hills, Bel Air and Malibu.
Year-round warm weather
The art-rich J Paul Getty museum
City and sandy beach holidays
Movie history and Hollywood glamour