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The Rainbow Harbor is a beautiful place to spend an evening watching the sunset, but it can sometimes be tricky to find a good seating area and avoid crowds at the same time. With this swan pedal boat experience, get out on the water with just your group, and choose where you want to pedal to on the Rainbow Lagoon. Along the way, get great views of local sights such as Downtown Long Beach, and the Pike Ferris Wheel.

Spend the day sightseeing in Los Angeles during this guided tour from Long Beach. With an expert local guide and a small group of 14 people or less, see LA landmarks like the Hollywood Sign, Santa Monica, Venice Beach and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Follow your guide to filming locations of famous movies, explore Hollywood Boulevard and see one of the biggest ports in the US. This tour includes a balanced mix of guided tours and free time and includes round-trip transportation from Long Beach hotels.

Spend a half-day sightseeing in Los Angeles during this guided tour from Long Beach. With an expert local guide and a small group of fourteen people or less, see LA landmarks like the Hollywood Sign, Santa Monica, Venice Beach and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Follow your guide to filming locations of famous movies, explore Hollywood Boulevard and see one of the biggest ports in the US. This tour includes round-trip transportation from Long Beach hotels. 

This full–day tour of Los Angeles is a popular and convenient choice for cruise ship passengers docked at the Long Beach or San Pedro terminals. After pick–up from the port, your guide brings you to LA’s highlights and hidden gems, from the Hollywood Sign to Marlon Brando’s acting school. The day’s itinerary factors in free time to explore, dine, or shop at your own pace.

Take a thrilling whale-watching excursion off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Travel along the coast of Los Angeles and experience marine wildlife up close. Enjoy a glass or wine or beer, a light snack, or other beverage from the boat’s galley. Sit either inside or out on our 45-passenger vessel as you search the Pacific for Gray, Humpback, and Sperm whales, sharks, seabirds, dolphins and sea lions on this memorable outing.

Visit sharks, penguins and puffins with admission to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, and explore 19 wildlife habitats from every corner of the world’s largest ocean. Slip beneath a full-sized model of a blue whale, and catch the eye of a fierce leopard shark. Travel from a Sea of Cortez kelp forest to the ice-crusted waters off Northern Japan; watch sea horses play in a tropical lagoon, pet a shark in a kid-friendly touch tank and listen to the eerie melodies of an undersea whale song. Join us as the Aquarium of the Pacific celebrates its 25th Anniversary with new exhibits, events, and programs highlighting the remarkable natural world right outside our door. Journey through a re-imagined Southern California Gallery highlighting fascinating local animals and marine habitats. Discover colorful reefs, kelp forests, and sea grass beds as you meet a pod of lobsters, an octopus, deepwater fish, and more.

See the L.A. coast from the sky with an exciting, 15-minute tour from Long Beach on a private helicopter. Swoop above the iconic Queen Mary ocean liner, hover over downtown Long Beach and see the imposing Battleship Iowa that's moored in the city's bustling port. Enjoy seaward views of Catalina Island and the curving Pacific coastline before touching back to Earth at the Long Beach helipad.

See the L.A. coast from a private helicopter with a 30-minute, narrated flight from Long Beach, and take in California’s most iconic vistas. Watch for surfers as you soar over the breaks at Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, and the Port of Long Beach. Glide past iconic landmarks like the Queen Mary and the Battleship USS Iowa Museum. Admire the natural beauty of Abalone Cove Shoreline Park as well as cliffs, caves, and waves along Palos Verdes.

Take in Los Angeles’ scenic highlights from the air with a private, 45-minute helicopter tour from Long Beach. Fly up the coast past Manhattan and Venice beaches, then bank over Santa Monica pier then head for downtown. See the city’s sports centers and gleaming skyscrapers and take in views of the Hollywood Hills and the San Gabriel Mountains before touching back down in Long Beach.

This is the perfect way to get an overview of Los Angeles’ highlights. Instead of going on a fixed route of sights that don’t interest you, take control of the itinerary and choose the places you visit. For the duration of tour, make as many stops as you like for photos, food, shopping, and exploring. Potential places to visit include Santa Monica Pier, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Rodeo Drive, and Venice Beach.

Explore life under the sea on a 1-hour harbor eco-tour aboard a glass bottom boat. From the Long Beach Port, you'll head out to the Federal Break to see what lives in the shallow water habitat. On the way, seek sea lions and seals, get a close up view of the Queen Mary (docked in Long Beach Harbor), and see the port at work with the busy container ships coming in and out to sea.

Leave behind the driving hassles and explore Long Beach in the open air—and on two wheels. With this self-guided bike tour from Rainbow Harbor, you’ll pedal along the water until you hit the Pike, one of southern California’s best waterfront shopping districts. If that doesn’t stop you, head for the Shoreline Pedestrian Bikeway and the Italian-inspired Naples, nabbing views you’d never get from behind your windshield.

Travelers arriving in Los Angeles by cruise should make the most of their first day in the city by visiting the top attractions around town. On this full-day sightseeing tour, see more in one day, from Downtown Los Angeles and the TCL Chinese Theater, to world-renowned Hollywood Boulevard. Along the way, see the city's diverse neighborhoods, including Venice Beach, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills. And of course, snap a souvenir photo of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

This private Temecula Wine Country tour includes a stop at an outlet mall for shopping—a relatively rare combination. After pickup from Los Angeles, Orange, or San Diego counties, head to an outdoor outlet mall for roughly two hours of discounted shopping. Then, visit wine country, stopping for wine tasting at one or more wineries, time willing. Finish your tour with free time for shopping, dining, and exploring Old Town Temecula.

Check out the nightlife in Long Beach on this interactive bar hunt. The popular app-led scavenger hunt company, Let's Roam, is putting a new spin on the old bar crawl. Just download the app and hit the town. As you make your way through pubs, clubs and dive bars, you'll complete photo and video challenges to rack up points and be proclaimed the Bar Hunt Champion! Must be 21 to participate.

Join our one-of-a-kind scavenger hunt and explore Long Beach in a new, unique way. Each session is aided by an interactive remote host, who sends challenges to participants via a phone app. When the challenges are accomplished, the team scores points. Check your status against competitors on the app’s international leaderboard. This handcrafted adventure is part tour, part detective hunt, part social experiment, and part creative challenge, with lots of fun in between.

Combine two of San Diego’s best attractions—shopping and scenery—with this full-day tour. You’ll swipe the credit card at the Carlsbad Premium Outlets (think high-end brands at incredible prices) and the waterfront Seaport Village, mixing it up with stops at Balboa Park, La Jolla, and the USS Midway Museum. At the end of a full day, you’ll have seen and shopped the best of San Diego.

There’s one surefire way to make exploring Long Beach extra fun—by riding a four-wheeled surrey cycle. Taking off after sunset, you and your pedaling partner will glide from the historic Queen Mary to The Aquarium of the Pacific and beyond, covering more ground than you could on foot (and not worrying about parking). Bring your camera, as colored LED lights ensure you weave a trail that glitters and glows.

In you like fun and games, and fancy yourself an amateur-detective or wannabe treasure-hunter, this 2-hour walking adventure around Long Beach is for you. With your smartphone acting as a guide, wander around Long Beach at whatever pace you wish, solving clues and completing challenges at the same time as enjoying all of the sights, sounds and tastes this vibrant LA borough has to offer.

Choose from a selection of cruiser bikes, electrical bicycles, and specialty cycles with this bike rental in Long Beach’s Shoreline Village. Ride along the boardwalk, enjoying front-view views of the Pacific coastline. Rentals include a helmet, bike lock, and basket, so you can ride comfortably and stop wherever you wish.

Discover the Long Beach shoreline on a four-wheel surrey cycle. This is the flagship cycle of the Long Beach Wheel Fun Rentals fleet, a human-powered modern day carriage. A surrey ride is fun and relaxing, perfect for one-on-one time with your romantic partner or a fun day out with the family. Create a memory to last a lifetime!

A beautiful private yacht tour of the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles. See all the described attractions listed in this itinerary and see seals and sea lions in their natural habitat. You also have the option to fish from the yacht as we go if you have a valid license (bring your own pole and gear.) This is a flat rate for a private trip, you have the yacht to yourselves. Limit of 6 guests in your party.

Take your exploration of Los Angeles to new heights during this 30-minute private helicopter sightseeing flight. Climb aboard your own private helicopter at Santa Monica airport for an unforgettable aerial excursion above the City of Angels, heading north over the canals of Venice Beach. You’ll continue past the sights including the foothills of Santa Monica, the mountaintop Getty Museum and Hollywood and its iconic sign, plus much more. Loop back past Griffith Observatory and the skyscrapers of downtown before coming back down to earth in Santa Monica.