Starline Tours visits movie star homes and other great places in Southern California.

Hollywood’s Starline Tours adds to its success with the TMZ Hollywood Tour

© 2012 Group Tour Media Article,
February 17, 2012

HOLLYWOOD — Starline Tours is the oldest and largest sightseeing tour company in Los Angeles, having pioneered the famous Movie Star’s Homes Tour in 1935 — making this Starline Tours’ 77th operating year. 

The company offers a full range of sightseeing tours in Hollywood, Greater Los Angeles, Southern California, San Diego, and Tijuana, along with tours to theme parks and movie studios and transportation from more than 250 hotels in the Los Angeles area. 

New Anaheim Terminal connects Orange County visitors to L.A., Hollywood, studio tours and more

Starline has expanded its Los Angeles operation to include service in Orange County with a new terminal located directly adjacent to Disneyland Resort. 

The new terminal provides a full range of tours, including Starline exclusives such as the popular Hop-on Hop-off CitySightseeing Tour, the new TMZ Tour — Secrets and Celebrity Hot Spots, the original Movie Stars’ Homes Tour in the company’s famous “topless with headsets” buses (the only open-air Movie Stars’ Homes tour experience from Orange County, with personal headsets to hear clear narration) and the Warner Bros. VIP Studio Tour.  

Starline Tours Anaheim Terminal is located at the Jolly Roger Hotel, 640 W. Katella Ave., Anaheim, CA 92802. Tel: (714) 786-5349.

Starline Tours CitySightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off City Tour is now the largest in the world — connecting LAX area to the beaches, Beverly Hills and Hollywood

The addition of two new routes on the CitySightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off Double Decker City Tour expands the coverage to more than 100 miles. The new routes offer stops at LAX hotels, Fisherman’s Village, Marina Del Rey and Venice Beach, Pier and Boardwalk.

From there, passengers can connect to Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and Hollywood. Tours operate daily and include a “Show & $ave” promotion for discounts at more than 50 museums and attractions. 

A 24-hour all-route ticket is $40 for adults and $20 for children, available from the driver or www.starlinetours.com. 

Increased visitor interest for the TMZ Hollywood Tour leads to additional tours

The TMZ Hollywood Tour — Secrets and Celebrity Hot Spots launched last May as a show on wheels, blending the popular television show and website created by Harvey Levin, with the tour and Hollywood know-how of Starline Tours, developers of many Hollywood tour offerings. 

The sexy, 24-passenger buses take visitors to the nightclubs, restaurants and street corners made famous by the antics of Hollywood’s most watched celebrities, all inside the “thirty mile zone” for which the TMZ show and tour are named. 

An immediate success with visitors hoping to get a little closer to their favorite star was predictable, but having stars wave down the tour bus, step on the bus for photos and conversations give passengers a thrill. 

“When superstars like Shaquille O’Neal and Brad Pitt say hello to our guests, and the TMZ guide gets it on tape for the TMZ website, it makes our visitors to LA feel like celebrities, too”, said Vahid Sapir, owner of Starline Tours. 

The two-hour tour operates daily with late tours on weekends for a completely unique look at the area’s hot spots.

Top ten list of “don’t-miss” homes released

Starline Tours releases its list of the top ten most requested homes on the Movie Stars’ Homes Tour for 2011. Guides keep the “drive-by” score of its passengers on the original Movie Stars’ Homes Tour, created in 1935, and the recently added Malibu Move Stars’ Homes Tour. 

Michael Jackson’s rental home tops the list again this year. 

New to the list is Al Pacino’s home at No. 6 and the Katy Perry/Russell Brand mansion at No. 8.

In Malibu, the list remained the same with Cher’s estate at the No. 1 spot. Starline Tours pioneered the “topless with headsets” approach to the tour — an open-air bus equipped with personal headsets — allowing an up close view while preserving the tranquility of the exclusive neighborhoods.