Hollywood Bowl Westwood Shuttle

This is a great location to get the bus to the Bowl. It is also one of the locations for lease event bus rides too. Huge parking lot, well lit, and cheap compared to driving and parking yourself.

Wheels on the bus will drop you off directly at The Hollywood Bowls’ entrance within the promised 40-​minute ride time. After an entertaining evening you’ll be safely deposited right back where you started — Park N Ride Lot 2, off Veteran Avenue, behind the Federal Building.
$ 10 cash round trip on site or online $ 6 plus $ 0.75 service fee for priority seating. Print your tickets at least two hours before event start time and don’t leave home without them.
We arrived early (a Virgo thing), and the handsome Hollywood Bowl rep didn’t require us to wait. Two seats remained. We scored.
OK, it’s not a limo but this comfortable, clean, transport is definitely a party bus, filled with friendly folks, eating, drinking yes drinking. A solo bottle of vino to share, we decided to wait to avoid spillage.
Best cost effective, efficient way to enjoy The Bowl!

If you like airport type waits and lines then the shuttle is the way to travel. The trip is advertised as 40 minutes. The actual time from federal building parking lot to bowl was two hours. Although the 10 and 405 were moving on this Saturday. The bus driver took the streets from Westwood to Beverly Hills to Hollywood to the bowl. It was Gay Pride weekend and Santa Monica blvd. was a parking lot. Incredibly on the way home at 11 pm the bus again went through Hollywood for another two hour ride. Take this bus if you like seats narrower than economy class and a ride as smooth as a garbage truck.

Super convenient and cheap… both win-​win and a No-​Brainer.
$ 5 per person when pre-​purchased
$ 10 per person if purchased at the lot, cash only
Departure times are pretty frequent. Plan your arrival accordingly.

I don’t understand the previous two negative reviews. As far as I think, this is THE best way to get to the Hollywood Bowl from the west side of LA.
This bus picks you up from the parking lot of the Federal Building on Wilshire and drops you off literally RIGHT in front of the Hollywood Bowl. There was more than ample parking at the pickup location. Plus you need to walk about zero miles to get to the Bowl, which was always one of the parts I hated most about traveling to the Bowl — the long walk from Hollywood to Highland to the Bowl.
When we got there, the people collecting cash were pleasant and helpful. We bought our ticket on-​site (aka not in advance), and there was NO line whatsoever. There were multiple buses leaving at different times (I think once every 30 – 60 min), and we were able to board a bus immediately, which left shortly thereafter.
The bus itself is clean and relatively quiet. It is full of couples/​friends with picnic baskets filled with wine. In fact, we were even able to drink some wine on the bus that made the whole ride more enjoyable ;)
We got there within 30 minutes, with plenty of time to spare.
After the concert, the buses were all in a parking lot. They gave us our bus number before we got off, and with the help of some Bowl employees, the bus was pretty easy to find. I managed to get in a good nap in after a long evening of wine and music.
Bottom-​line: HIGHLY recommended. The shuttle is hands down THE best way to commute to the Hollywood Bowl and back, especially if you don’t want to deal with the stresses of LA traffic and parking.

Lousy information available online, $ 11.50 for an advanced ticket for any Bowl bus through TKT BSTRD. GET REAL! Its a BUS! Gone are the happy days of walk up and ride knowing when buses leave. They refuse to publish departure times unless you buy a ticket. What a racket!

Drive to Hollywood & Highland, park in the lot. Go to Forever 21, buy some earrings, validate the ticket, and walk to H. Bowl, up Highland. Way faster, way better idea, and you control when you come & go.

I don’t know what it is about the shuttle from Westwood to the Hollywood Bowl. Actually, I know exactly what it is. It’s the girl that runs the tickets and cash — she is the worst. Ever. She’s lazy, slow to move, does not manage the lines, and gives confusing directions. I loathe her.
It is never on time. If you want to make it to the Bowl with time to picnic or enjoy the scene, be prepared to leave on the first scheduled bus, cause it won’t leave until 45 minutes later. Cause she’s holding up the bus.
Bowl to Westwood is always quick.