Private Tours of Los Angeles & Hollywood

Anne Block Tour of Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles

Personal Tour Guide Los Angeles & Hollywood

Los Angeles is more than just one city, it is a sprawling megalopolis of many cities rolled into one: Los Angeles, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Los Feliz, Santa Monica, Venice, Watts, Studio City, Burbank and all of the neighborhoods, hills and valleys in between.

And while it is a relatively new city in comparison to New York or Boston or Rome, it does have its history; and it is laced with scrap books filled with memories. All you need do is to spend an afternoon walking through Hollywood Forever Cemetery—the genesis of the TV series, "Six Feet Under"—and you will come across many of the famous and not-so-famous that made Hollywood ... forever Hollywood!

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywoo California Tours

City Tours of Los Angeles & Hollywood

Since every guest is unique, all our tours are one-of-a-kind, tailor made to suit your interests. Based on the kinds of things you tell us you like, we create each tour just for you.

Are you interested in Hollywood history and gossip (both current and past) not to mention the Motion Picture Academy Museum, as well as beautiful art and architecture, the Walt Disney Concert Hall (for example). Then there's fabulous food, exotic markets, shopping, unusual sites and cultural oddities? These are just a few of the subjects our excursions can include; our mission is to make sure your experience of Los Angeles is rich, fascinating, and fun!

Jimmy Stewart Home on Roxburry Drive

Hollywood Tours Los Angeles

Here is a wonderful article I found, Hollywood Ghosts of Roxbury Drive. If you're interested in where the stars lived – and I do mean stars: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Benny, Peter Falk, Harry Cohn, co-founder of Columbia Pictures, Betty Grable and her husband Harry James, Rosemary Clooney, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Spencer Tracy, Agnes Moorhead, Ginger Rogers and more, you can find them all on my Blog Page - Private Tours of LA. And, if you'd like to experience Beverly Hills and Roxbury Drive yourself, just add them to your custom-designed tour of LA.

Hollywood Today

Read what The New York Times has to say in Adam Nagourney's wonderful take on Tinseltown today in, "Hollywood Gets Its Groove Back!"

Los Angeles & Hollwood Day Tours

"L.A. Confidential" Tour
La Brea, the Tar Pits, The Bakery, Fabulous Museums
To Market To Market in Downtown L.A
"Pretty Woman" Tour Rodeo Drive with the Experts
Beauty on the Sunset Strip
Jewish Heritage in L.A.
The Amazing Watts Towers
Hollywood & Vine
Santa Monica Pier and LA's own Venice and Canals
Malibu, Santa Barbara and the Pacific Coast Highway

Day Tour Rates

(prices starting at))

Full Day Private Guide (7 hours)

One – three guests: $700
Four – six guests: $850 (larger vehicle provided)

Half-Day Private Guide (3.5 hours)

One – three guests: $450
Four – six guests: $650 (larger vehicle provided)

Large Groups

(prices starting at)

Full Day Private Guide (7 hours)

Seven – twelve guests: $1,400
Thirteen – twenty-five guests: $1,750
Twenty-six – fifty guests: $2,150

Half-Day Private Guide (3.5 hours)

Seven – twelve guests: $950
Thirteen – twenty-five guests: $1,250
Twenty-six – fifty guests: $1,450

Additional Information

All day tours include: custom designed excursions, transportation, driver, expert guide, and taxes.
Supplementary fee for travel outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
Meals not included

Testimonials

I want to take an unusual LA tour, what do you suggest? ANSWER: The delightfully insane Anne Block runs Take My Mother Please! Block is obsessed with LA and does everything from bespoke tours inspired by a client's favorite film to visits to LA's most quirky buildings.

— Patrick Waecheter,
Concierge, Standard Downtown Hotel

First of all, how can you NOT love the name of this private tour company?! I was drawn to it instantly when trying to decide how best to "do LA" for the first time with my wife and 14-year-old son as part of a week-long trip to Southern California from Rochester, NY.

So much to do, so little time...and no desire to navigate LA in a rental car or, worse yet, on a packed tour bus!

As the saying goes, Anne Block (the owner/operator, and our private guide) "had us at hello." I was blown away by her responsiveness to my initial email inquiry a full six months ahead of our planned trip—and liked (and trusted) her immediately. (The trust factor was a big thing for me, for obvious reasons!) Anne answered all my questions, was open to all of my requests, and offered many wise suggestions about what was doable and what may not be in a six-hour custom tour.

Since we were staying in Anaheim (at Disneyland), we took the train into Union Station in downtown LA. When we got off the train, there she was -- in a bright red hat -- and from the moment we met Anne, my wife, son, and I liked her immediately and spent a fun-filled day together that none of us will ever forget.

In addition to the terrific sites we saw (including "must-dos" that we requested like Hollywood and Beverly Hills, and some novel sites that Anne selected that we could have never known about), a few things really stood out about our day together:

Anne went out of her way to make sure she exceeded our expectations
Her driver (Wendy) made it easy for Anne and us to "hop out" whenever we wanted for those perfect photo ops without us worrying (and wasting time) with parking. Anne even took pictures with my camera so we'd all be in them!
Anne ensured that our teen-aged son felt included throughout they day -- paying particular attention to him and his interest in film, and our desire to do "a drive-by" of USC.
She even agreed to drive us back to Anaheim (for an agreed-upon added fee in advance) since we didn't know where we'd be when our tour ended.
We never once experienced one of those "this is really weird / I don't know what to talk about / I want this tour to end" moments that could easily happen when you're "trapped in a car with complete strangers in a strange city" for six hours.

Our only complaint? The day went way too quickly and we needed six days — not six hours! — to see/do everything we would have liked. Nonetheless, I feel like we had a "crash course" in LA, made friends along the way, and definitely got a terrific value for the money spent (which, BTW, was handled easily via credit card...another one of my concerns beforehand. I didn't want to be traveling with tons of cash in my pocket!)

I would not hesitate to call on Anne again on a return visit to LA — and cannot recommend her highly enough. We definitely were made to feel like VIPs, and you will be too!

— Martial B.