I didn't really plan out my trip before I bought the ticket. I'm staying with a friend near Santa Monica but he's going to be busy most of the time and I was just wondering if there is anything to do for relatively cheap in the city. People travel across the country to come here and I can't think of a single thing to do other than universal studios I guess.
SoCal is actually a bigger theme park market than Orlando. Universal is one of them and there is also the original Disneyland. There is also Knott's Berry Farm, which is sort of like an older kid's version of Disneyland (it has kid rides AND big thrill rides). A bit north of LA is Six Flags Magic Mountain, which has more roller coasters than any other park on Earth, but most Six Flags parks have below average reputations.
Knott's in pic.
Do you have access to a vehicle?
>>1141211
nope, pretty much going to hike and uber/ take the bus
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>>1141606
To summarize them in a nutshell
>Disneyland, expensive, kinda packed, but you get what you pay for
>Knott's Ghost town is cool and it's in a anniversary, they have a new gun ride and coasters are there. Historical actually.
>Six Flags has the largest amount of coasters hands down, and a VR one at that. Bad in some other aspects
>Universal has Harry potter now, it's probably packed so go there for the studio tour mostly, you can actually see famous people as Well.
>>1141606
Well you have the recent expo line extension. There's lots of stuff to do within a 10 minute walk of any of the transit lines not including bus lines.