Los Angeles

paddy_nyr wrote:

>I'm heading to Los Angeles in June and I'm looking for a good place to stay.
>I know LA is all spread out and I plan on renting a car, but when I'm not
>driving I'd like to be able to walk around to restaurants, shops, and bars.
>Is there an area in LA that's like New York's Soho or Greenich Village?
>
>Thanks for the help
>
>
>
>
I went to NYC 5 years in a row and always spent evenings
in Greenwich Village.

Been to LA twice and the area most like GV is Santa Monica.

Pasadena and Redondo have nice strips with restaurants,
bars, shops but are not as extensive as SM.

On May 17, 8:04 am, "paddy_nyr" <mpp...m> wrote:
> I'm heading to Los Angeles in June and I'm looking for a good place to stay.
> I know LA is all spread out and I plan on renting a car, but when I'm not
> driving I'd like to be able to walk around to restaurants, shops, and bars.
> Is there an area in LA that's like New York's Soho or Greenich Village?
>
> Thanks for the help


LA is a car-centric city. There is no place in LA that is like
anywhere in NYC. Santa Monica or Pasadena may be closest. But still
it's nothing like NYC.

On May 17, 4:22 am, John Ramsay <jram...@netscape.ca> wrote:
> paddy_nyr wrote:
> >I'm heading to Los Angeles in June and I'm looking for a good place to stay.
> >I know LA is all spread out and I plan on renting a car, but when I'm not
> >driving I'd like to be able to walk around to restaurants, shops, and bars.
> >Is there an area in LA that's like New York's Soho or Greenich Village?
>
> >Thanks for the help
>
> I went to NYC 5 years in a row and always spent evenings
> in Greenwich Village.
>
> Been to LA twice and the area most like GV is Santa Monica.
>
> Pasadena and Redondo have nice strips with restaurants,
> bars, shops but are not as extensive as SM.

Santa Monica even has a hotel called Hotel California (1670 Ocean
Avenue). I'm sure that you can check out any time you want, but you
can never leave...

elizabetheclarinm wrote:

>On May 17, 8:04 am, "paddy_nyr" <mpp...m> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm heading to Los Angeles in June and I'm looking for a good place to stay.
>>I know LA is all spread out and I plan on renting a car, but when I'm not
>>driving I'd like to be able to walk around to restaurants, shops, and bars.
>>Is there an area in LA that's like New York's Soho or Greenich Village?
>>
>>Thanks for the help
>>
>>
>
>hi there, I would recommend Sta.Monica, 3rd St.Promenade is a fun
>place to walk around with great restaurants and all kinds of stuff
>around, nice hang out bars as well, movie theaters and close to the
>beach, great shops, it's not exactly Soho or Greenich Village but it
>has some character, i would say a cleaner place than the later.
>
>

Also interesting stuff on 4th & 5th Streets. Plus Santa Monica Pier is a
don't miss.

>another place to check out is Westside, Westwood Village where UCLA
>is, great shops and retaurants, young at heart kids, college students
>hangs out there,
>Sunset Blvd where all the famous star hang outs, great bars and rest.
>one of a kind shops
>
>i would say you can spend one night in Sta.Monica, the second night in
>Sunset Blvd then head to Westside
>Beverly Hills is great for shopping all day but dead at night
>
>if you are a beach person, Malibu is the best place, Newport Beach and
>Huntington Beach as well, you can hit all these places by driving the
>Pacific Coast Hwy from West to East, good luck
>
>
>

On May 17, 8:04 am, "paddy_nyr" <mpp...m> wrote:
> I'm heading to Los Angeles in June and I'm looking for a good place to stay.
> I know LA is all spread out and I plan on renting a car, but when I'm not
> driving I'd like to be able to walk around to restaurants, shops, and bars.
> Is there an area in LA that's like New York's Soho or Greenich Village?
>
> Thanks for the help

hi there, I would recommend Sta.Monica, 3rd St.Promenade is a fun
place to walk around with great restaurants and all kinds of stuff
around, nice hang out bars as well, movie theaters and close to the
beach, great shops, it's not exactly Soho or Greenich Village but it
has some character, i would say a cleaner place than the later.

another place to check out is Westside, Westwood Village where UCLA
is, great shops and retaurants, young at heart kids, college students
hangs out there,
Sunset Blvd where all the famous star hang outs, great bars and rest.
one of a kind shops

i would say you can spend one night in Sta.Monica, the second night in
Sunset Blvd then head to Westside
Beverly Hills is great for shopping all day but dead at night

if you are a beach person, Malibu is the best place, Newport Beach and
Huntington Beach as well, you can hit all these places by driving the
Pacific Coast Hwy from West to East, good luck

On May 17, 11:04 am, "paddy_nyr" <mpp...m> wrote:
> I'm heading to Los Angeles in June and I'm looking for a good place to stay.
> I know LA is all spread out and I plan on renting a car, but when I'm not
> driving I'd like to be able to walk around to restaurants, shops, and bars.
> Is there an area in LA that's like New York's Soho or Greenich Village?


I didn't rent a car, stayed downtown (Comfort Inn Downtown LA),
explored the downtown area on foot, and used the LA subway to get to
other neighborhoods within the city (I was most interested in the
immigrant neighborhoods near downtown and architecture from early 20th
century LA, most of which is roughly in or near downtown).

If you're interested in the city itself as opposed to the beaches and
surrounding areas, then this is doable - otherwise you will absolutely
need to use the car constantly. Most of the neighborhoods are huge
and sprawling, and you can hardly walk anywhere in any reasonable
amount of time. In New York, a half-hour walk will take you from
Greenwich Village all the way to downtown or Midtown. In LA, a half-
hour walk will take you from Koreatown to another part of Koreatown!

Downtown is the only place in LA which even remotely resembles New
York, and more Alphabet City or Red Hook than Soho or Greenwich
Village. There's some interesting stuff there, but you really need to
know where to go - parts of downtown basically empty out after dark
and there are some sketchy parts also.