Los Angeles Double-Decker Bus Tour Adds an App

But there I was on a recent spring day, tourist-chic in a wide-brimmed hat, navigating the area on a red double-decker tour bus and enjoying the heck out of myself, with the help of City Sightseeing's iPhone app.

The free app for your iPhone or Android phone is a worldwide app for multiple cities that host City Sightseeing tour buses. The City Sightseeing app for Los Angeles coincides with local Starline Tours' Hop-on, Hop-off Double Decker City Tour, featuring routes in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and downtown L.A.

The app allows you to buy tickets for the bus tours and get information on where and what the stops are. There's also a way to email "postcards" of pictures taken during the tour.

"The City Sightseeing mobile app delivers a pioneering solution, with many features and functions, across a multi-platform solution that no other travel company has, especially other bus and coach operators," said Mandy Gaughan, City Sightseeing's director of marketing and sales. "The app consumed all the technology that the smartphones had available, including, GPS, camera, video, audio."