Hollywood Who's Who Look to Starline Buses to Help Make their Scene
Hollywood newcomers and veterans stars alike turn to Starline Tours when the scene requires an authentic Hollywood look and feel. Recent Hollywood stars choosing Starline include:Arnold Schwarzenegger became a CitySightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off tour guide in full Terminator costume and make up as part of a charity event promoting after school programs for kids. He delighted fans on the double decker bus, scared babies and challenged Hollywood Boulevard Terminator impersonators with proper delivery of his famous “I'll be back” line. (He won.)
Lovely recording artist Lana Del Rey chose Starline's classic topic tour bus for her “Honeymoon” album and video. A matching billboard in Los Angeles became an instant selfie spot. Oxygen TV's Prancing Elite glamreality show climbed aboard a Movie Stars' Homes Tour during a Los Angeles visit for the show's second season.
The Late Late Show's James Corden and Hip Hop Artist Jason Derulo took over a Starline tour bus for an epic Carpool Karaoke episode. While Derulo was teaching Corden moves to “be the swaggiest dude in the club” in a gas station parking lot, they spotted a passing Starline bus, climbed aboard and the dynamic duo gave passengers a “money can't buy this” vacation extra.
The ever-popular TMZ Tour continues to attract stars at every turn of the “thirty mile zone.” Celebrities included Nick Jones catching a ride to his brother's house, Kevin Hart professing his love for TMZ by chanting a TMZ cheer from the sidewalk, the tour finding themselves in the middle of a Sandra Bullock film premiere, and Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, Rihanna, Lebron James and Ben Affleck all greeted passengers, just to name a few. For TMZ Celebrity Tour videos, visit www.tmz/tour.
Starline launches new websites for the TMZ Celebrity Tour and all of Starline Tours
New TMZ and Starline Tours websites will have provide more user-friendly attributes and allow agents in multiple locations to book any tour available, servicing visitors in Orange County, Santa Monica, and Hollywood who visit a Starline office for information and tickets.Starline Rolls to Events for Exposure and Ticket Sales
Starline will add a moving ticket office to locations around the Los Angeles area to take “tickets to the event”. Operating like a food truck, the moving ticket office will be at Farmers Markets, Art Walks, Outdoor sporting events, annual festivals and cool only-in-LA happenings to sell all of the company's tours while promoting Hollywood and West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Marina Del Rey and Malibu. Event planners may request the ticket office for events, and Starline Tours welcomes partners looking to team up for a movable sales and promotion office.Movie Locations Tour launched summer 2014 – Adds second custom-designed bus to meet demand
After two years in development and a highly successful run for the TCM Channel's 20th Anniversary sold out tour, Starline launched the exclusive Movie Locations Tour. This three-hour tour features clips of movies shot on locations in and around Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles, LA's prime filming location. The original movie clips provided by Turner Classic Movies are shown on a 65” Screen in a custom bus with stadium seating and panoramic windows. The GPS-timed video presentation is hosted by TCM's Ben Mankiewicz for an informative and entertaining look into the movie industry in Los Angeles, while the bus and guide aboard takes passengers to the exact movie location seen on screen. This tour has been referred to as the “brainiest film industry tour offered in Los Angeles, with a look at LA's amazing but overlooked architecture provided as a bonus.” A second custom bus will roll this summer, with a design for more interior space and a 72” screen.The Turner Classic Movies Film Festival is held annually each late April in Hollywood over a 4 day period attracting approximately 30,000 visitors. It's a yearly reunion of mixed professionals of the film industry which include directors, producers, actors and movie buffs alike from all over the world to experience classic movies on the big screen as they're meant to be watched. Starline's partnership with Turner Classic Movies and host Ben Mankiewicz provides Starline with product and information no other company has.
Starline provides two tours for international visitors; Grand Tour of LA and Hop-On Hop-Off with Multilingual Tour Commentary
All of the Starline Hop-on Hop-off fleet is now upgraded so that in addition to English, the pre-recorded tour narration is available in eight foreign languages – Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, German, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Italian. Individual headsets are provided to all passengers to use and to take with them. This now gives international travelers to LA a choice of two multilingual tours from Starline Tours – the escorted 5½ hour Grand Tour of Los Angeles and the CitySightseeing Hop-on Hop-off Tour, the world's largest, covering 100 miles of connecting routes.Starline Tours' Hollywood Terminal and Welcome Center at Hollywood & Highland Shopping Center Hits One Million Visitors
Located in the heart of the action, the new, improved and expanded Starline Hollywood terminal, developed in conjunction with Hollywood & Highland, now allows for faster and smoother processing of Starline passengers. Now in its second year, Starline assisted over a million visitors from this terminal location. The location is often used for television and movie scenes.Handicap Access for all Starline Tours
All Starline Tours are handicapped accessible (the company is fully ADA compliant). Now every Starline CitySightseeing Bus is handicapped accessible, with space for two wheelchairs on each bus.Starline Tours
Hollywood's number one celebrity tour company, Starline Tours, is the oldest and largest tour company in Los Angeles, having pioneered the famous Movie Stars' Homes Tour in 1935. A full range of sightseeing tours of Los Angeles and Southern California is available. Starline Tours has been featured on Ellen, American Idol, the Muppet Movies, Iron Man 3, NBC's Today Show, CBS Late Late Show, America's Got Talent, as well as newspapers and travel magazines from around the world.Starline Tours operates the Grand Tour of Los Angeles in nine languages, and the world's largest Hop-On, Hop-Off tour with Starline's CitySightseeing Double-Decker buses offering comprehensive tour narration in nine languages via personal headsets. The CitySightseeing buses are the only Hop-On Hop-Off buses in North America equipped with GPS tracking for “next bus at this stop” information via mobile devices. The open-top Movie Stars' Homes Tour and TMZ Hollywood Tour, recommended by travel agents worldwide, are visitor favorites and operate daily. The Movie Locations Tour in partnership with TCM (Turner Classic Movies) operates daily in custom-built surround-window stadium seating buses.
Tours to theme parks, movie studios, San Diego and Tijuana are available, with pick up from more than 250 hotels in the Los Angeles. With locations throughout Hollywood, a Visitor Welcome Center at Hollywood & Highland and a ticket office at (Grauman's) TCL Chinese Theatre at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, the company also has a sales office on Santa
Monica Pier, starting point for the Malibu Movie Stars' Homes Tour, at 1434 Second Street in downtown Santa Monica, and in Anaheim Terminal at 2333 South Harbor Boulevard for transportation to Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood and Beverly Hills for touring, shopping, dining and celebrity-watching. The company is privately owned and is operated in conjunction with TourCoach – the company's Bus Charter division. For reservations, visit www.starlinetours.com or call toll free 1-800-959-3131 or direct at 1-323-463-3333.
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