Address: Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue
Pricing: $59
Phone: 888-330-5008
Hours: varies
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Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the center of the action in Hollywood can be found by taking the Highland Avenue exit off the 101 Hollywood Freeway and heading south about 3/4 of a mile to Hollywood Blvd.
Parking:Lots of metered and unmetered street parking
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Hollywood Walk of Fame CityPass: An all-inclusive entry to Tinseltown
May 18, 2010
Summer in LA with kids? No problem. Take a pass – the Hollywood Walk of Fame CityPass, basically a one-stop decision-maker for everyone in the brood. The good thing about this pass is its location.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame CityPass focuses on the two-block area that honors more than 2,300 celebrities with sidewalk stars. The new CityPass booklet includes tickets to the Starline Tours Homes Tour, Red Line Tours’ “Behind-the-Scenes” Hollywood tour, a choice between Hollywood Wax Museum & Guiness World Records Museum and Madame Tussauds Hollywood, and a choice between a Kodak Theatre Guided Tour and the Hollywood Museum in the Historic Max Factor Building. The booklet also includes a book of Hollywood & Highland Center discount coupons.
Sure, it’s possible to attack all these attractions a la carte. But it will cost you. The two-hour Starline Tour drive to the homes of cinema notables costs $34 without a pass. A walk-up ticket at Madame Tussauds will run $25 and the Red Line’s 75-minute Behind the Scenes tour takes $24.99.
And those prices do not include the priority, no-waiting treatment CityPass affords.
New to these attractions are such elements as George Lopez, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan – the latest personalities to be immortalized at Madame Tussauds of Hollywood.
The Hollywood Museum in the Max Factor Building has put the costumes and props from Twilight: New Moon, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek, Inglourious Basterds, The Blind Side and Julie & Julia on display for a limited time.
The museum also features its own little Hollywood horror show. It’s kept in the basement these days but delivers the chills as if dangling on the wide screen: visit HannibalLecter’s jail cell from The Silence of the Lambs, masks of Jason and Mike Myers from the Friday the 13th and Halloween and view the corpses, mummies and masks from Boris Karloff’s, Lon Chaney Jr. and Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy films. There’s also The Dead Man in the Basement from Hell Night, the guillotine and severed heads from Quills, costumes worn by Vampira and Elvira, and Sarah Michelle Gellar’s "corpse" fished out of the lake in I Know What You Did Last Summer. Admission without the CityPass is $15.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame CityPass is priced at $59 for adults and $39 for children 3-11; and is valid for 30 days from the date of first use.
- by Lark Ellen Gould, Los Angeles Reporter for HelloMetro
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Lark Ellen GouldLark Ellen Gould has penned seven books on Las Vegas and Los Angeles as a veteran news and travel writer. Her work appears in the L.A. Times, Elite Traveler, Travel Agent Magazine and other national forums. She lived in Boston for many years, earning her masters degree and then traveling the globe for stories. Today she lives in LA and still travels the world on assignment while filling the pages of her travel site: www.wheredaily.com, along the way.
