- Best time to visit: From March to November
- Currency: Dollars
- Language: English,Spanish
- Getting around: car,bus,metro,on foot
Los Angeles is a very famous city because of the celebrities staying there and the Hollywood industry.A city which is created by the media,promoting the sparkly and glamorous lifestyle and the American dream,but the truth is behind this facade that you encounter homeless and not mentally healthy people in almost every corner, more than in any European city. Los Angeles in our opinion, is overrated and pricey for no good reason because everything described as to do in almost every travel site ,ours included, is not something special.
Los Angeles is better to visit from March to November because the weather is sunny and warm.We visited LA in late August to early September and the temperature was great during our stay.Keep in mind that August and September for Los Angeles is high season so it is really hard to find hotel or an apartment at a good price.
Now getting around LA is not that easy if you do not have a car, The transportation in Los Angeles is not good because it takes a lot of time to go from a place to another.For example, if you want 25 minutes to go from Bevely Hills where we stayed, to Downtown LA by car, then by bus you will need to change two buses and it takes almost 1.30 h. There are no metro stations in every neighbourhood and we didn’t use it. To ride metro trains and buses , you have to buy a reusable TAP card from a super market or at the machines at Metro stations. With this card you can load an amount of money and can use it to both metro and buses. It is cheaper if you have the card because a single ticket costs 1,75$ and with the card you can transfer from one bus to another for free whereas if you pay by cash when boarding the bus you don’t have the option to transfer to another and you have to pay from the beginning.
Το Los Angeles είναι μία διάσημη πόλη χάρη στους celebrities που μένουν εκεί αλλά και στη βιομηχανία του Χόλιγουντ. Μία πόλη η οποία δημιουργήθηκε από τα Media διαφημίζοντας την αστραφτερή και γκλάμορους ζωή σε συνδυασμό με το αμερικάνικο όνειρο. Όμως όλα αυτά είναι μόνο η μισή αλήθεια, αφού το Λος Άντζελες είναι μία πόλη όπου μπορεί να συναντήσεις άστεγους ανθρώπους, οι οποίοι μπορεί να γίνουν επικίνδυνοι γιατί δεν είναι όλοι ψυχικά υγιείς ,σχεδόν σε κάθε γωνιά της πόλης, περισσότερο από κάθε ευρωπαϊκή πόλη. Κατά τη γνώμη μου, είναι υπερεκτιμημένη και αρκετά ακριβή για αυτό που προσφέρει.
