Bus tour trips

[Smurfy]

Long time reader of this great forum first time poster. I'm looking for advice from anyone who has been on bus tours to Universal, san diego zoo, seaworld and Hollywood all from Anaheim as we want to be based there for Disney. We are 3 adults and none of us want to drive.
Which bus tour companies are the best to use with regards to reliabilty etc and is the long bus journey worth it to san diego?
I have many more questions to pick people's brains with and i'm sure they have been asked before, so sorry in advance and thanks everyone

 

[Ella1]

We used Coach USA, good service and good trips. Got picked up from hotel in a feeder coach and then taken to bus station to pick up coach for wherever we were going, then dropped off back at the hotel in the evening.
We went to Seaworld in San Diego and its a long journey and we didn't enjoy Seaworld that much, but would take a trip there again to look around San Diego.
Love Ella

 

[Smurfy]

Thank you very much Ella I've heard of coach usa and this company allanaheimtours are they any good also? Thanks again

 

[Ella1]

Never used Allanaheimtours but did go to Universal with Starline Tours and they were fine. I just use Coach USA as our tour operator uses them.
Love Ella

 

[simba_one]

We used V.I.P. Tours for our tours and transfers - http://www.viptoursandcharters.com. We ended up using them twice - for our L.A. City Tour & Movie Stars Homes! tour and for our transfer to Six Flags. The travel agent we booked with uses a ticket company called Seligo (http://www.seligo.com) which uses V.I.P. Tours.

The city tour was fabulous!! We had the best driver EVER... Billy!! He was hilarious and made the day such a blast. We picked up a bus outside our hotel and were then dropped off at the ticket office (where we had to queue for a while to exchange slips for tickets, etc. - that was a bit annoying) on Harbor opposite Disney. Then we got on a coach and were off. It sounds worse than it was really. It was really quick and easy. Some of the drivers looked a bit dry though - maybe just because ours was so hyper?! We had a good tour of the L.A. area for a good few hours (with LOADS of things pointed out - the oldest first ever house built in L.A. which was interesting) with a couple of stops (the Hollywood sign - was a fair way away from it but it was still great - nice to see it from far back as we hiked up into the hills to see it too - and some concert hall which the name of escapes me right now but it had water fountains outside shooting out the floor like at CityWalk and they danced to music apparently - even though no music was playing and you could see City Hall from there too) and then headed to the Farmers Market/The Grove for lunch and shopping. And after we got off the bus was going onto Universal to drop the rest of the group off for an afternoon at the Studios. Then a couple of hours later (we had plenty of time to eat and shop) we got back on the bus and headed back to the hotel. It was a great day. And we had the sofa seats at the back of the bus with the table which gave us a great view of everything either side of us.

The transfer to Six Flags was an experience I'd rather forget though. The journey there was OK but the journey back? Not good. There we went on a coach but coming back we were in a mini-bus and it was cramped and not nice. But that was a transfer and you're after tours so for tours I'd say V.I.P. are great!!