The overall trip was exactly right for a tour of LA, but Gabriel was awful. He started the day telling us how cheap it was to live in CA, how everyone makes more than $100/hour, kids all buy real estate and are in the stock market. Then we talked about the mafia. If he thought to talk about celebrities, he mostly talked about how we lost [name] due to drugs, and we saved RDJ by putting him in jail, where he met the mafia, then won an Oscar. He repeated these things many timea. At one point he stopped in the middle of the block so we could all look at a homeless person. He talked incessantly about financial companies and how they hire high school dropouts. A few hours into the tour he asked the van if we wanted to talk about taxes. In unison, we said no, he did anyway. Driving though Beverly Hills he said outsiders want to talk about celebrities but my dad said the real Beverly Hills is corporations, and so he talked about that even though we were clearly the "outsiders" his dad talked about.. When people asked for clarification of something said, he was snide and ridiculed them. When someone asked where we were (neighborhood), he said we're in LA. He told someone else to Goggle whatever their question was. I know LA is rich in history and mystique, but we didn't get a sense of any of that from Gabriel. We had an Uber driver the day before who told us more interesting and relevant information than Gabriel could muster. We were glad to take the trip and see what we saw, but if he pulled up to take any of us anywhere again, we'd all turn around and leave.
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Feb 2025
Clearly, in your mind, Gabriel missed the mark with his comments throughout your time on our tour. I have shared your review with him. I have also reviewed dozens of reviews pertaining to tours guided by him over the past several years and found the vast majority of those reviews were positive and supportive of his tour narrations. On behalf of the actual tour, however, I appreciate you saying that you "were glad to take the trip and see what you saw".