Private after-hours access, the coast and the canyons, and the tables that don't take reservations — Los Angeles, arranged privately.
Los Angeles opens for those who know the right door. Forest Travel designs the city privately — after-hours access where the public can't follow, the tables that aren't bookable, and the coast and canyons beyond the boulevards — with the relationships of four decades.
A curator-led, after-hours visit to one of LA's great museums or a private collection — the art without the crowd, arranged through relationships.
A seat at one of the city's most sought-after kitchens — the counter, the off-menu tasting — secured when the booking line says no.
A private drive up the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu as the light turns — stops, a table by the water, no schedule but yours.
Beverly Hills and the canyons, the city's best tables and a day on the coast — Los Angeles at its most effortless. From around US$10,000.
Private studio access, members-only rooms and after-hours moments the public never sees — the LA that runs on relationships.
Malibu, the Pacific Coast Highway and the canyons by private car — the open, cinematic side of Los Angeles, on your own schedule.
Each a starting point — our advisors weave them into a single, seamless journey.
September and October are the two strongest months — the marine layer has gone, the ocean is at its warmest and summer crowds have thinned. March to November is the broad good season. Avoid planning coastal mornings in May and June, when "May Gray" and "June Gloom" hold low cloud over the beach until midday or later while inland neighbourhoods stay sunny.
Base yourself where your days are, because driving time is the real cost here. Beverly Hills and Bel-Air are central, quiet and above the marine layer; Santa Monica buys the ocean and easy family days; West Hollywood puts the highest density of restaurants and nightlife within a short walk; Downtown suits concert halls and museums. For a four-to-five-day trip, a split stay — inland then coastal — usually halves the driving.
Yes. PCH reopened to all traffic between Santa Monica and Malibu on 23 May 2025, after nearly five months closed by the Palisades Fire. Through the burn area, between Temescal Canyon and Carbon Beach Terrace, the limit is 25 mph and lane and shoulder closures continue for utility and repair work, with some slope projects running into 2028. We plan the coastal day around the current timings.
Four to five. Two days for the city — after-hours access, the tables, the galleries — one coastal day along Malibu and PCH, and one for a studio or entertainment-world moment with room to run over. Under three days is largely spent in traffic. Longer suits travellers pairing the city with the desert, the mountains or the coast north.
Yes. Los Angeles hosted eight matches between 11 June and 19 July 2026, including the only quarter-final played in the United States, on 10 July. The next event of that scale is the LA28 Olympic Games, 14–30 July 2028, with the opening ceremony split between the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium, and the Paralympics from 15 to 27 August 2028. Rooms and access for those dates move earlier than any other window in the city.
A dedicated car and driver for the length of the stay. The city's best hours sit an hour apart — a canyon morning, an afternoon on PCH, dinner in one neighbourhood and private access in another — and a driver who holds your whole day knows the routes at 6pm, waits while you eat and absorbs the overrun that would otherwise cost you the next reservation.
Yes. In Los Angeles, Forest Travel arranges curator-led, after-hours visits to the city's great museums and private collections, so you see the art without the crowd. The same relationships open members-only rooms and studio and entertainment-world moments the public never sees. None of it is a product with a price list; it exists through people who take our call, and it is set around your calendar in the city.
Through relationships, not the booking line. In Los Angeles, Forest Travel secures seats at the city's most sought-after kitchens when the public line says no: the chef's counter, the off-menu tasting and the private dining room. These seats never reach a booking system. A dedicated driver who waits while you eat also protects the next reservation from a twenty-minute overrun elsewhere in the city.
Late afternoon, as the light turns golden. Forest Travel sets the Pacific Coast Highway run from Santa Monica to Malibu for late afternoon, when both the roadworks crews and the light cooperate, and builds the day on current timings rather than pre-2025 ones. The drive is private, with stops and a table by the water, and no schedule but yours.
Los Angeles is the gateway to the western side of the map. From the city, Forest Travel runs journeys north along the coast into the wine country, east into the desert or the mountains, or south into Mexico by short flight. Within the United States it links cleanly to the other cities Forest Travel plans, and a longer stay suits travellers pairing Los Angeles with one of these.
A private Los Angeles trip starts from around US$1,500 per person per night, so the four to five days the city needs start from around US$6,000 per person, before flights. A dedicated car and driver, after-hours museum access, the hardest tables and a studio or entertainment-world moment move the total, which your advisor sets once the days are planned. Forest Travel's planning fee is US$250 per itinerary.
Every journey here is a starting point a private advisor reshapes entirely around you — your pace, your people, the Los Angeles only you would recognise.
A real person answers: an in-house luxury travel advisor, in English or Spanish. The first conversation is complimentary.
