Burbank, CA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The name of Hollywood may be synonymous with the movies, but the studios themselves moved out of Tinseltown long ago; the nitty-gritty business of actually making films goes on over the hills in otherwise hot and boring Burbank. Studio tours include a solid look inside NBC , 3000 W Alameda St, Burbank (Mon–Fri 9am–3pm; $7; tel 818/840-3537), the rather uninspired walk-through for Paramount Studios , 5555 Melrose Ave, Hollywood (Mon–Fri 9am–2pm; $15; tel 323/956-4552, www.paramount.com/studio ), and the technically oriented trek into Warner Bros Studios , 4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank … more »