Hollywood Bowl Park & Ride

horrible park and ride ! they use the oldest buses for this location. no air-​conditioning and full bus. temperature outside 90 degrees and inside is more like 100 degrees. almost passed out. same bad experience last year ! some day, they are going to have people have a stroke or heart attack due to this poor conditon !
also, can’t understand why pasadena bus start at 5 pm and arcadia starts at 5:30 pm when it is even further from the bowl ! you really have to rush to eat once you get to the bowl !

Why the bad reviews? I went from this park and ride location for the first time last evening. I’ve taken the shuttle from Westwood and also the LA zoo before so I kinda knew what to expect.
You can park anywhere in the lot and go towards the white colored buses and you either pay or hand over your pre-​reserved ticket.
I usually just buy it on site but I knew this show was going to sell-​out so I didn’t want to take any risks and reserved it ahead of time (on bowl website through ticket master for $ 7.75).
Parked and walked toward buses. Got in line, handed my ticket to the person, got on the bus, and about 45−60mins (Friday eve traffic) got to the bowl.
No issues. Getting back was a little tricky for me. Usually the buses I’ve taken before are the first in the row. But Arcadia is a little in the back.
Once your shuttle gets to the bottom of the hill near the Bowl, a staff members comes aboard and announces how to get back to the shuttles. Make sure you memorize this or type it on your phone or write this down. After the show, follow instructions. I still got lost.ish. But they have staff all over the place so you’ll get to the right shuttle fine.
Do not drive to the Bowl. That is my advice. Park and Ride, be it from here or other venues is the best.

I went to my first show at the Bowl last night and used the park & ride from Arcadia. I purchased my pre-​tickets online. It’s $ 6 if you pre-​purchase your tickets online; otherwise, it’s $ 10. I came on Unilocal the day before my show to read reviews and I was nervous because the reviews were both really negative.
The directions online aren’t really that clear. The parking lot for the Park & Ride is off of Huntington on Santa Anita Ave; it is not the parking lot across the street from Methodist Hospital. You will see a sign for the Park & Ride once you enter the parking lot with the big white buses. I got there about 20 minutes early because I wanted to make sure I found the bus. The ticket said 5:00 p.m. and the bus left the parking lot at 5:01 p.m. so make sure you get there 5 – 10 minutes ahead of time to make sure the bus doesn’t leave without you and that there’s an available seat for you.
The ride there was really pleasant and it took about 40 minutes just like the ticket said. As we drove past the parking lots for the Bowl, I saw signs that said $ 17 for parking so I’m really glad I did the park & ride.
Once we arrived, a representative from the Bowl told us how to get back on the bus and that it would leave 25 minutes after the show ended. She kind of gave instructions quickly so if you’re not a good listener, there are signs and you can follow the crowd because a lot of people use the shuttle bus. It’s just a walk past the refreshment stand, bathroom, then farther down and you’ll see a staircase going down to the left and then you’ll take the stairs and then make a right through the gate when the pathway splits to go upstairs where the buses are.
I thought the ride home would be long with all the traffic of people leaving but it only took 30 minutes using the bus’s route. We left 27 minutes after the show. If you’re one of those people who are chronically late, this might be a problem but I love when things are on time so I was really happy that there wasn’t any waiting. We did leave from Arcadia with an almost full bus and when we drove back, we were missing about 10 people than we originally departed with. I would definitely take the Park & Ride again because it saved me from having to deal with driving there, expensive parking, and traffic on the way home. The driver was nice too!

We made the huge MISTAKE a couple of years ago of trusting that the METRO buses would actually show up at Arcadia Park, bound for the Hollywood Bowl.
The 2 «SCHEDULED» buses NEVER showed up! We had to drive like SPEED DEMONS, and actually got there just as the show was beginning.
I would NOT recommend this «Service» to anyone… and I can forward that indeed we did get SERVICED.
I’d like to give a negative 10 STAR rating to the METRO service, but Unilocal only allows a 1 STAR minimum rating.
RIDERS BEWARE!

First of all, I think it’s convenient to take the shuttle to the Hollywood Bowl. It’s efficient and stress free than driving. I have no issues with the shuttle, but only with one incident that involved a few individuals.
My complaint is related to June 22, 2013 on Opening Night when my sister and I walked into the shuttle to go home. There were two empty seats remaining, but someone actually left a back-​pack on the seat, so we sat separately thinking it was occupied. What upset me is I had to ask this angry looking young woman if it’s okay if I sit next to her and she bitterly responded «ONLY if I sit by the window». Okay, I let it go because the concert was awesome and nothing was going to ruin my mood, so I sat by the window, but get this, her mom behind kept kicking my chair whether to intimidate me or by accident. I think it was the first. I felt very uncomfortable but I did not make any waves. Finally, I turned around and she stopped. One word people, RESPECT.
Once we were on the way. I noticed that two seats a few rows ahead were not reserved in spite of the backpack left on the seat. It turned out this lady in front of the seats left her back-​pack there instead of carrying it with her. You are not supposed to do that! Seats are for passengers NOT for back-​packs. I had to endure a 30 minute drive with this bitter young woman and a menacing relative behind me. This should not be. Passengers pay for seats and I was a passenger. Keep your belongings with you and next time don’t leave it on an empty seat to keep passengers from sitting there because next time I will point it out to the driver. And, one more thing, you don’t own the seats, so next time someone needs to sit next to you, oblige and be friendly or else drive alone.