Tours, tickets and boat trips in Long Beach, California and on Catalina Island, sold by Viator: whale watching and harbor cruises from the downtown waterfront, the Queen Mary’s tours, Catalina crossings and the island’s own excursions, Los Angeles day tours that start at the cruise terminal, helicopters, jet skis and surreys. The ones a guide on this site names come first, each for a reason the guide gives; the full catalog follows, sorted by type.
Long Beach and Catalina Tours and Tickets
Recommended in the guidesEach named in an article, for a stated reason
Catalina Island w/Discover Avalon Scenic Tour & Hotel transfersfrom $245
Catalina Island Trip with Hotel transfers & Optional toursfrom $207
City Tour of Los Angeles from Long Beach and San Pedro Cruise Terminalsfrom $159
Los Angeles Private Car Service to or from Anaheim Resort.from $89
Queen Mary General Admission Self-Guided Experiencefrom $45
Queen Mary Glory Days Historical Tourfrom $45
Guided Whale Watching Tour from Long Beachfrom $38
Long Beach Harbor 45-Minute Boat Tourfrom $15
Los Angeles Highlights Tour from Long Beachfrom $129
Every tour, by typeThe whole catalog, from Viator's feed
- Catalina Island36 tours
- Whale watching and harbor cruises12 tours
- Los Angeles and Hollywood tours10 tours
- Private tours8 tours
- Walking tours and games7 tours
- Nature and wildlife6 tours
- Water sports6 tours
- Helicopter and air5 tours
- Bikes, surreys and golf carts5 tours
- Tickets and passes4 tours
- Queen Mary3 tours
- Transfers and drivers3 tours
- From the cruise terminal3 tours
- Food and cooking2 tours
How tours are chosen here
Every tour in this section is sold and run through Viator, and the booking buttons are affiliate links: a booking may earn this site a commission at no cost to you. That is how the site pays for its hosting. It does not decide what gets recommended, and it never will.
This is a logistics site, not a tourist blog. A tour earns a mention in a guide when it solves a problem the guide is about: a transfer that gets a cruise passenger from the airport to the terminal with the bags, a Catalina crossing with the hotel pickup already arranged, a whale-watching departure a short walk from the Convention Center hotels, a Queen Mary ticket that answers “what is open on the ship” in 2026. Where a tour does that, the guide says so and names it; where the public bus, the Passport or a pair of shoes does the same job for less, the guide says that instead.
Prices are shown with the date they were last checked; the current price, the dates and the fine print are always on Viator. The catalog pages repeat the operator’s own description and carry no opinion of this site’s; a tour the desk has written about shows that note at the top of its page.