Vinewood Star Tours

"Faded starlets, troubled celebutantes and aggressive, costumed street performers - you never know who you're going to bump into on Vinewood Boulevard. Come see the sights and sounds for yourself, or jump aboard the Vinewood Star Tours bus to have a struggling actor narrate as you take a guided tour of the landmarks and homes of the rich and famous while sitting on an un-airconditioned bus."

- GTA V official website.

Vinewood Star Tours is a company running guided bus tours of famous Vinewood locations in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online.

Description
Vinewood Star Tours gives the player tours around celebrity homes and some landmarks around Vinewood and Richman using a Tour Bus, which according to the Grand Theft Auto V website, has no air-conditioning. Tours cost $40 in GTA V, and are not available in GTA Online.

Starting a tour is available from outside Vinewood Wax Haven on Vinewood Boulevard next to Up-n-Atom Burger between 7 am and 7 pm daily. Approaching the start point between 7 pm and 8 pm or between 6 am and 7 am may result in the player seeing the bus drive off and the guide announcing that the tours have closed for the day. Depending on traffic and traffic lights encountered, tours can take up to ten in-game hours. Tours started later in the day can therefore continue late into the night.

If the player calls the 1-999-VIN-TOUR as advertised on the back of the bus, some music will play until the player ends the call.

The tour guide is a member of the Epsilon Program, as she will comment on how it changed her life while pointing out the Epsilon Building to the passengers, happily saying "Kifflom!".

She often advises passengers to take out their cameras and smartphones to take photos of landmarks, even though a "no pictures" sign is visible inside the bus cabin, although she does explain the "no smoking" policy, but allows exceptions for medicinal marijuana.

The player always takes a seat directly behind the walled-off driver compartment. Unfortunately, this results in a very limited view with the first person camera option (or with Snapmatic).

The player can use a version of Trip Skip during the tour to jump to the next key destination and can exit the tour at any time.

It is a requirement to participate in at least one bus tour to complete all the 57 random events in the game and thus it can be one of the 14 to count towards achieving 100% Completion in GTA V.

Tour
The tour bus originally advertised "12 amazing ports of call" and this was increased to 20 in the Enhanced Version although the tour camera only focuses on the same 13 attractions in both versions.

Trivia

 * Prostitutes can offer their services while the player is a passenger on the tour bus, only for the player to turn them down.
 * It's a good idea to take the tour early in the game as not only does it help familiarize the player with that part of the city, the stories told by the tour guide provide backstory and foreshadowing for later missions.
 * The tour bus can be occasionally spotted driving around the city, and as such can be stolen.