Dearly Departed Tours

I went on the tour with my sixteen year old daughter, and we are both SoCal natives, and we had a great time on the tour. I would definitely recommend it to tourists and locals. The tour guide, Brian Donnelly was awesome and he also pointed out other interesting landmarks not just the ones about dead celebrities, which I thought was really cool. It is awesome learning more about my city and as Mr. Donnelly said getting a chance to see how your city is represented to the rest of the world. I would love to take another one of their tours especially the Manson tour, as I was very impressed with this one.

Great tour, great tour guide! Thank you

Good Tour

Lots of information and lots of sites. Had a great time and really enjoyed our tour guide. Very knowledgeable.

After seeing it featured on many TV shows and documentaries through the years, I have been wanting to take this tour for a long time! I finally was able to drag my husband and teenage son on it this summer. My husband was pleasantly surprised and I was ecstatic that I got to say "I told you so!" I knew they would love it! It's much more than just taking a van and driving by infamous sites of doom and gloom. Our tour guide, Brian Donnelly is a treaure trove of trivia about "everything Hollywood"!! We all thoroughly enjoyed the stories he recounted in an entertainingly witty fashion. I look forward to taking additional tours offered by this tour company. Their new storefront on Sunset also houses several pieces of Hollywood memorabilia and artifacts. The entire staff was super friendly and genuinely excited to share their knowledge with all of us on the tour. They made us all feel welcome and comfortable....very unlike some of those other phony and fake and sometimes sleezy tour companies. So...if you're from out of town or locals like us, Dearly Departed Tours is a great way to spend a couple of hours and listen to some interesting...and rather macabre stories of the Hollywood past and present!

Very fun, fast paced tour! The guide was funny and full of information. Highly recommended!

An entertaining way to see the city (which is a real pain to drive around in on your own!) while learning about the tragic and sometimes gruesome history of Hollywood and its environs. Very knowledgable tour guide and accomodating for those who had special interests ( like stopping at Marilyn Monroe's orphanage.) Liked the books with images passed to those on the bus as well as the video/audio -- very affecting to hear some of the audio like the 911 calls. One suggestion is not to have four people in the back -- three would be more comfortable and we were not large folks. Another would be to stop at one of the cemeteries, even if briefly, but definitely worth the price of a ticket -- eye opening even for those who live there.

The tour exceeded my expectations.

I enjoyed this tour and really did not think it was gruesome at all. The deaths that were discussed were all tastefully talked about and there was nothing I really had not heard about them already. I enjoyed seeing a large part of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and the Sunset Strip on this tour. Richard was very knowledgeable about the sights he showed us.

Fantastic and information filled trip. Driver was fantastci and really out going ..... had a blast!

OMG!! Best tour EVER!!! I am star struck and ghoulish (I stare at the pages they warn you about, thinking "what the hell??"....of course I wouldn't recognize a celebrity on the street it he/she bit me, and I guess with dead people that's really not a concern, but I love this stuff!! Brian was the best tour guide I have EVER had and I've taken many tours in the area. He's fun, funny, informative and he knows his ghoulish shhtuff!! Coming back in a couple weeks with my sister for ther birthday, my daughter, her daugher and our other "sister"....a better time cannot be had!!!! Except maybe on the Helter Skelter tour....haven't done that one yet and I have my theories!!

Our tour guide was Brian Donnelly and you can tell how much he loves his job. He was full of detail about all of the many places we visited and you could tell he enjoyed it as much as the first time vistors! We saw countless homes where new and old movies were filmed. I would highly recommend taking this tour. You get to see much of the city and it will be hard to find a tour guide that is enjoyable as Brian.

I have been on a couple of Dearly Departed tours with Brian Donnelly and he has always done a fantastic job so while in town with the family thought we would try the movie tours. We were certainly not disappointed as we went to many sites where clips of movies some famous and some not so famous were filmed. I can't imagine anyone putting more effort into his touring work than Brian does with his knowledge of the subjects being covered. I would like to see a "Dearly Departed 2 tour" sometime in the future with new topics and sites.

Scott was the best! This was a great tour that was done with respect shown to the victims and their families. Scott was very informative and a great guide. He was open to all questions and comments. Highly Recommended!!!

I would definitely recommend this tour. The tour guide was great, learned lots of things I didn't know even being a local.