Fun Things to do in LA / Santa Monica?
 

This is our very first trip to the LA area..WOOHOO I am so excited!

Deeprub and I are leaving on Friday and staying in Santa Monica at the Loews Hotel.. Has anyone heard of it or stayed there... Is it nice??

We have an oceanfront suite.. I am so excited to be able to sit on the balcony and look at the ocean for days.. It is my favorite thing to do.:upsidedow

If you are familiar with the area please give us some tips ...
Is there anything cool to do around the hotel we will be staying at?


As for the night time ..

I need to write a new club review or two while I am in LA..

Do you know of any wild clubs . bondage, fetish, strange, swinger ..

something that I can write a review on for one of my websites..


Thanks for any help!:liebe028:

xoxo
April :-)

Go shopping on Robertson blvd in beverly hills i think? i always see pics of lindsay lohan and nicole richie and paris shopping there so i guess a lot of celebs go there... i would love to go there...

Fun for tourists and fun for natives are rarely the same thing. You would probably enjoy Venice Beach . . . all my tourist friends do.

google image search for santa monica page 3 =

Church of Euthanasia installation at the Santa Monica Art Center
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Note Taken.. STAY AWAY FROM THE Church of Euthanasia :1orglaugh

Sunday you must be at Venice Beach.....day time only.

Sunday we are going to have a small webmaster get together on the beach in front of the Loews hotel.. we are going to cook steaks on the grill and get drunk as the sun sets ...

Why only on Sunday??

Do Tell :-)

He did not say Sunday only, he said daytime only.

hit up 6 flags magic mountain...awesome theme park. Its in Valencia which is about 25 minutes away

Got it.. I will check it out.. any nude beaches??

Rent bikes and cycle up and down Santa Monica beach. There are paths.

Body board or surf, although last time I took a dip there I had a weird tingling sensation allover my skin.

Drive or take a bus to Malibu... around 30 mins away.

Eat at the Lobster, great restaurant right next to the ocean. If they still serve it: tuna and avocado salad.

Watch 100s of people doing 100s of different activities from chess to surfing, ultimate frisbree to yoga... you imagine it and there is probably a group of people there doing it. Maybe I am going over the top, but its a pretty diverse and interesting place. Oh and I never felt unsafe at night.

Hope that helps :)

Hal

:1orglaugh what time of the day would that be? I don't think they are open at 3 AM

Yes.. that did help.. sounds great.. thanks alot!

There is one, but you would never find it.

Hey BD.. if you are going to be around the area and not busy Later Sunday afternoon you should come to the get together.. it is BYOB

A few of our mutual friends will be there. :upsidedow

Deeprub Cooks an amazing steak on the grill :thumbsup

Let me know if you can come :winkwink:

Go to 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica (Exit on 4th off the 10 fwy). Watch the street performers. From there walk over to Santa Monica beach or drive over to Santa Monica peer.

for a good laugh stop in at the scientology church on hollywood blvd...

We are talking the 28th? My calendar appears to be free barring any unforeseen b.s. If things go as planned I will be out and about breaking in the new bike.

What time?

haha.. I would like to see that :1orglaugh

what is the weather like there.. is it blazing hot around 4 or 5pm?

We may all play a little poker later that night :-)

I would love to see some street performers.. I just looked at the map and it said our hotel was about 1 block from the Santa Monica Pier.. is that close to where the street performers are??

Blazing hot at the beach? In May? I thought you came to Cybernet Expo a year or two ago.

Same general area

If you want hot . . . well, more like warm, you will need to go inland. Universal Studios should be toasty by then.

I live in So Cal but I neve even really explored LA county to be honest. I really would like to but it's an hour drive for me and I'm lazy I only like to drive around my city to be honest, I don't like driving to far places.

But if I were to go to LA I would love to visit

Robertson Blvd

The Beverly Center and Fred Segal

All those clubs I see celebs going to like Mood, LAX, Bungalow 8, can normal people even get in there or do you have to be a celeb?

Hollywood

Take a tour around Beverly Hills looking at celeb mansions

I live in OC and I HATE it, it's so suburban and boring. I always wanted to live in LA because it appears so glamorous and exciting. I only went to LA briefly a few times and even the people seem different than OC people, they seem more fast-paced and "busy" while OC people are really laid-back.

I would never want to live in SFV, but rather somewhere around Hollywood or Beverly Hills, or Santa Monica....

People that come around LA and not from the area and only visit are quick to realise that they ought never come back.

Unless of course ya stick around Santa Monica, Long Beach.

I have to ask, what is the fascination with Robertson Blvd?

Long Beach?

Oh yes.. it was freezing wasnt itI had chill bumps every night lol..
I will bring my big huge winter coat for the evening lol

Lets say we will do this at around 4pm... :winkwink:

Can you build bonfires on the beaches there?

Because I heard there's a lot of good clothing stores there... I look at a lot of tabloid photos and always see celebs buying clothes there...

There's a store named Kitson there and Nicole Richie and Paris shop there :helpme

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On this lovely, tree-lined street, the girl-powerful?Ghost, Kate Spade, Lisa Kline and Agnes B among others?offer their clever, imaginative and just damn cute designs. It?s where Los Angeles-style ladies who lunch, well, lunch. Early in the afternoon, model-actress-wannabes who?ve already scored a mogul emerge from lunch at the Ivy, and those who have yet to score troop out of the Newsroom Café. Both appear virtually indistinguishable, except for the indiscreet I-really-love-him baubles adorning the manicured fingers of the taken.

These clusters of yoga-cized, self-tanned, pneumatically enhanced girls totter from shop to shop on their four-inch Jimmy Choos, looking for adorable, cleavage-enhancing slip-dresses. And there are so many to choose from. Embroidered, sequined, tie-dyed, fringed, some demure, some racy, all so darling, how can little ?ole size-zero me choose?Answer: buy them all with mogul?s platinum card! Isn?t life fun, girls?

hmmm, in S&M I am not sure. I have never done the beach in Santa Monica. I know that further south the only place I know for sure that you can is Dockweiler Beach.

In fact, when I go to this page it says:

No Alcohol on the beach
No pets on the beach
No fires except at the Dockweiler Beach or Cabrillo Beach fire rings.
Hours of Operation for all beaches: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

From Wikipedia :

Robertson is best known as a recent celebrity hangout. This is partially due to a large influx of unique boutiques and designer clothing stores such as Agnes B, Curve, Lisa Kline, and most famously, Kitson, which is a mecca for many celebrity shoppers. In addition, several popular celebrity infused eateries are on Robertson, such as The Ivy and Newsroom Cafe. The Kabbalah Centre is also located further south on the street.

hmmm, when I worked in Beverly Hills I always thought Robertson was kind of slummy. I guess that must be north of Wilshire.

I have no idea, if it's a long street it could be that some areas are ghetto and some are nice... It's where the Ivy is though, it's supposed to be restaurant where a lot of famous people go and there's always papparazi outside...

I have no idea and no clue... I just read a lot of magazines/tabloids and they ALWAYS talk about Robertson blvd so that's why I heard about it.

Ya want S$M that shits all in San Francisco...

Ya.. I have been looking and can not find one single cool wild club as of yet :(

The Beach Closes?????

The view from the 405 freeway right at the Getty Center is awesome. Specifically on Fridays.

If you guys have time, I can probably take you up to Malibu or something like that. It is my old surfing grounds, I know a few pretty cool areas that tourist are not directed towards.

Do they have bbq grills on the beach there in SM?

We would love to see some surfers.. I have never actually seen someone surf before..

Santa Monica is primarily a shallow beach break, I doubt you see many surfers there. But just up in Malibu in the reef areas, there are gorgeous waves (depending of course on whether or not there is some kind of west or southerly swell).

All the same, the areas are gorgeous. Worth seeing, I take everyone there.

Let's just say that after 10, you are on your own.

As stated above, I don't go to the beach in SM. The beaches down here do not have grills on them.

Got ya..



Beach party from 4pm-10pm lol

I know you seem to be pretty intent on having the party in SM, but if you want bonfires and bbq, you might consider moving the party south a few miles to Dockweiler Beach.

That sounds fantastic.. I was just wanting to have it at the SM beach.. because I know of no other ones lol

Great Idea!

I just looked it up on google.. and it looks like a blast.. I WOULD LOVE to have a bonfire on the beach.. love it love it!

I just looked it up on google.. and it looks like a blast.. I WOULD LOVE to have a bonfire on the beach.. love it love it!

Venice is fun but not something you can do on the regular..Check it out tho, so many different walks on life..Nice walls to paint on too!