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Welcome to Anaheim!  Visitor and Tourist Information!

Planning a trip to Southern California wouldn't be complete without visiting the Anaheim Resort Area, Disneyland Park and Disney's California Adventure! Yet, even with these two world class, one of a kind, theme parks there is a LOT to see here so, don't assume that a trip to Disneyland is just a trip to Disneyland...

And planning a trip has never been easier than by exploring our Anaheim Visitor Center Web site. Find the best deals on Tours and Attractions, take a look at the Anaheim Resort Map or just get some helpful advice about Things to Do in and Around Anaheim and Orange County. Just click the links to the left, right and below.

Encompassing an area of 2.2-square miles, the Anaheim Resort and surrounding areas provide world-class entertainment, luxurious accommodations, swaying palm trees, lush landscaping and friendly hospitality to millions of visitors each year. The Anaheim Visitor Center - Disneyland tickets, Universal Studios, Legoland, Seaworld and Tours to Hollywood, Tijuana and Orange County Beaches!

Anaheim Visitor Center

Discount Disneyland Tickets, Discount Tours to Hollywood, Discount Universal Studios Tickets, Tours to Orange County Beaches

An Evening at Downtown Disney

The idea of Visitor Assistance and Discounts on Tickets and Tours has changed since the advent of the internet. Where you used to have to wait to arrive to get up to date information and assistance, now you can e-mail prior to arrival and have your tickets or tour vouchers waiting at your hotel upon arrival. In addition, maps, directions or just a friendly suggestion is available here for you, from the comfort of your own home. The Anaheim Visitor Center is the perfect "first stop", even before you arrive in Southern California!

The Anaheim Visitor Center provides Visitors and locals with Discount Attraction Tickets & Discount Tours to Hollywood, Universal Studios, Tijuana, our Orange County Beaches and more!  We can also assist with Discount Hotel Reservations, Great Deals on Flights and Getaways all over the USA (bookmark this page for future use), Dining Recommendations, Driving Directions, Area Maps and Vacation Planning Assistance.

Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the Anaheim Visitor Center is the perfect place to start your vacation plans, online or to receive helpful hints and information during your stay by dialing us at 714-817-9733 for information or email us.

 

Amazing New Tours that No One Else Offers from Anaheim!

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We have some great new tours that you can only get here! 

Direct from your Anaheim Area Hotel enjoy a tour of Hollywood plus a 2+ hour tour of the Warner Brothers Studios on a golf cart!

Visit actual sets as you drive between sound stages and stop at the amazing Warner Museum.  This Museum is full of incredible artifacts from today's most popular films and yesterdays classics.  You never know who you might see on this tour of an actual working movie studio. 

Then, stop at an incredible scenic overlook of Los Angeles on the world famous Mulholland Drive.  Visit the Chinese Theater Complex and then take a tour of Movie Star Homes in Beverly Hills.  A Photo stop at the La Brea Tar Pits and a tour of Downtown LA round out this amazing tour!  Departing every Weekday from your Anaheim Area Hotel.

Our Warner Brothers Studio Tour from Anaheim brings you inside one of the most famous and historic studios in Hollywood.

Our Outlet Shopping Tour from Anaheim direct from your Hotel every Wednesday and Saturday takes you to the Desert Hills Premium Outlets!  This is your direct link to the Best Shopping in Southern California!  There are other shopping Centers closer to Anaheim but none that provide the deep discounts and amazing variety that you will find at Desert Hills Premium Outlets.

130 Stores offering 25% to 65% off plus, our guests receive a FREE coupon book with tons of additional savings.

If it's your goal to go home with amazing bargains from COACH, RALPH LAUREN, LEVI'S, NIKE and MORE - you must join us on this one of a kind shopping experience!

Our Bus remains at Desert Hills for the day so, about half way through your shopping extravaganza, you can meet the driver and leave any packages in our secure bus - that way, you don't have to carry your purchases all day!

Whales, Dolphins and Sea Lions are always close to our beautiful shores of the blue pacific !

 

Each day, our Whale Watching tour departs Anaheim at 8:30am and gives you the opportunity to see Huntington, Newport and Laguna Beaches as well as experiencing a 2.5 hour ocean adventure on one of our 100+ guest Whale Watching Boats! 

See Bottlenose Dolphins, Sealions and more as you glide out of the famous Newport Harbor and into the Blue Pacific. 

Pass multi-million dollar homes on the cliffs that are just South of the Harbor and view the beautiful white sandy beaches of Newport Beach from inside cabins or on the deck of these fast, sturdy ships!

As part of our Whale Watching tour from Anaheim, guests join our OC Beach Bus Tour and also drive through Huntington Beach and can stop in Laguna Beach for about an hour.

There's also plenty of time to enjoy Newport Beach and all that is there!  You'll have more than an hour to walk out on the pier or put your feet (or more) in the Pacific!  Rent a Bike and explore the Boardwalk!  It's your day and you can do what you like with it!

Disneyland, Disney's California Adventure, the

Anaheim Convention Center and more!

 

Mickey & TrainstopThe Anaheim of today is very different from years past. The center of the Anaheim visitor industry has undergone more than $5 billion in amazing transformation and reinvented itself as the Anaheim Resort™  district, a lush urban resort.

The 1,100-acre Anaheim Resort district is filled with palm tree-lined boulevards creating a classic Southern California environment. 

The Anaheim Resort welcomes visitors year-round to experience theme park thrills, professional sports action and innovative meetings in a world-class resort destination.  The Anaheim Resort district encompasses:

While you're in town, there's so much to do and see! Take the family to meet Mickey Mouse and his pals at the Disneyland® Resort, watch Major League Baseball's World Champion Anaheim Angels at nearby Angel Stadium, take in National Hockey League action with the Stanley Cup Champion Anaheim Ducks at the Honda Center, enjoy a concert at the House of Blues, or take a stroll through the Downtown Disney® District - the high-energy place to go in Southern California for the best selection of dining, entertainment and shopping.

You are HERE...Now What?

Centrally located between Los Angeles and San Diego, the Anaheim Resort is the perfect place to play and stay during a trip Southern California! Attractions such as Universal Studios, Sea World, Knott's Berry Farm, Hollywood, Catalina Island and the World Famous San Diego Zoo are all within a short drive.

There are many many other famous (and not-so-famous) Southern California attractions and activities that are within easy reach and the Anaheim Visitor Center is the perfect place to help you get there.

Whether it's the beautiful white sandy beaches of Southern California, the Border and everything there is to see South of it, Palm Springs and it's majestic mountains experienced firsthand on the world famous Palm Springs Aerial Tramway or just a ride up the coast, the Anaheim Resort is the perfect "base camp" for your adventure!

OC BEACH BUS TOUR to HUNTINGTON BEACH, NEWPORT

BEACH AND LAGUNA BEACH

Beach Tour, Orange County Beach Tour, Laguna Beach Tour, Transportation to Beaches from Anaheim, Newport Beach

The Best Way to See 3 Beaches in one day! Choose your stops and exit our Custom Woody Style Beach Cruiser bus in Huntington, Newport or Laguna Beach - in about 3 hours, your Custom Woody Style Beach Cruiser will return and you can continue your tour!

Anaheim Departures at 8:30am, 12pm and 3:30pm.  Start earlier and exit at 2 beaches, start at noon and explore one beach or begin at 3:30 and see all three from the comfort of our Cruiser!

The Balboa Fun Zone!  A Step Back in History to Fun!
Anaheim Orange County Bus Charters

For 75 Years, the Balboa Fun Zone has been the official location of "fun" in Newport Beach and, dare say, along the California Coast. 

From it's Pristine Shoreline to it's Unspoiled Harbor the Fun Zone, located on the beautiful Newport Peninsula has something for everyone.

Take a ride on a beautiful Ferris Wheel overlooking the Harbor ($3 per guest) or play in the Old Fashioned Arcade (still a Quarter) or take a 45 minute Narrated Tour of the Harbor with the Fun Zone Boat Company ($14 for adults) or take a tour on the amazing Segway...  or, of course, if you don't want to do anything - the Beach and Beautiful Balboa Pier are only steps away!

But that's not all, you can rent Bikes from the World Famous Balboa Bikes and Beach Stuff ($10 for all day) or eat in some great restaurants (Harborside or Newport Landing) or site on top of the Ruby's Diner at the end of the Balboa Pier and watch the Dolphins and Sealions try to steal the fish caught by the local fishermen or rent a boat from Marina Boat Rentals!

Whether you want something to do, nothing to do or something in between, the Balboa Fun Zone and it's friendly merchants have something for everyone.

"This is the #1 stop on the OC Beach Bus Tour" says Tom from the Anaheim Tour Company.  Just a wonderful place to really experience the Beautiful Southern California Coastline!


The Truth about Tours and Tour Companies

We offer amazing tours from Anaheim - some of these tours are only available through this website because we listen to guests and find out what they want to do and invent these tours that we make available to you!    Some of the tours, we book through other companies because they can do it better or cheaper than we can.  When that happens, you don't pay more for the tour, you get it for the same price (and sometimes less) because we have lower NET or WHOLESALE rates with these companies. 

We NEVER book you on a tour that we haven't gone on ourselves and, if we get feedback from guests about a tour that is negative, we stop using that company for that tour.  This way, we can honestly say that "If you are staying in the Anaheim Resort area, the BEST WAY to tour is with the Visitor Services and the Anaheim Visitor Center - providing the BEST TOURS from the BEST COMPANIES".

Coach USA/Grayline, VIP Tours, Grand Express Tours and other companies offer great tours - the problem is that these companies have to offer 12 to 20 different tours to keep their buses running and to compete with each other and companies from LA who want to offer departures from Anaheim.

Booking a Seaworld tour with Grayline is great this year because they offer free transportation to Seaworld if you buy the ticket through them - however, booking a Hollywood Tour with them isn't as great, in our opinion, because you ride a BIG BUS with lots of other people and it's not as good as using a company that has smaller buses and more driver interaction.  Plus, when you get picked up for a tour, your tour hasn't started yet.  They are a huge company and the buses have to pick up lots of other guests - then, when you get to their tour station, you will wait in line with all those guests until you board another bus to go to your tour.  This means that if you get picked up at 8am, you don't typically start your tour until 9:30am or later.  That's the same with most tour companies.  The tours we do through the Anaheim Tour Company (that's us) don't go to a tour stop - your tour begins when you get on the bus and that gives you more time to see the things you want to see!

The Hollywood Tour is one that is definitely improved when you go in a smaller vehicle - which, again, is why we don't use any of the larger companies for that tour.  You don't typically know what size bus you will be on for a tour when booking from home and probably never think to ask.  You might be disappointed when you get here and realize you could have seen everything on that tour riding in a mini-coach with 23 other people instead of a great big bus with 60 other people.  Just the time it takes for everyone to load and unload in a big bus is a huge waste of time when you're on a tour. 

That's where we come in! We know all the companies and you can get the same deal from us as you can through them (sometimes better) so it doesn't cost you more to book everything with one, family run company that is as serious about your good time as you are.

If somebody doesn't offer a good tour, we create one (and utilize the Anaheim Tour Company with the distinctive Woody Style buses!). Over the past year, this includes tours like our OC Beach Bus Tour, Warner Brothers Deluxe Combo Tour or Whale Watching Tour. We don't do a tour to Seaworld - because Coach USA/Grayline already does it well. We don't to an LA at night tour - because VIP tours already does it well.

If you book a tour from us, through this site or by calling 714-817-9733, you have our promise that we want to do whatever we can to make your experience with us and the tour a wonderful one.  We want you to say "that was a great tour and great value!" - then maybe you'll tell your friends or your hotel manager - that means almost as much to us as knowing that we did our best for you!

Your Friends, The Stewarts

 

When Touring Anaheim, WHY NOT Add a Trip to Baja?

Las Gaviotas Vacation Rentals

The beautiful and secluded community of Las Gaviotas, just 10 minutes south of Rosarito, is famous for the surf, sunsets and resort lifestyle.

Stay in a one, two, three, four and five bedroom homes are available for weekends, or longer terms. Prices start at only $99 per night, for your own fully furnished home seconds from the beach, pool, shuffleboard, tennis, and jacuzzi!

CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR VACATION HOMES!

 

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