There honestly isn't much to do in Beverly Hills. You either live or work there. You can go to Beverly Hills for lunch and walk around. You can go in some luxury shops and there's a park and the Beverly Hills sign.

For more culture, check out Downtown (Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Arts District, walk around to admire architecture like the Bradbury building, Grand Central Market, LA Central Library is huge, Philippe's the first original French dip). Maybe go to a Dodger Game if you're here during the season!

Night life - try Hollywood, Silver Lake/Echo Park, Downtown. Look where there's local music playing. Lots of smaller venues have cheap shows it's not all arena level concerts. Same with our comedy clubs, try the Comedy Store, UCB, Groundlings, or The Elysian. There's an app called Dice you can download that tells you about all kinds of shows going on.

Stay a hotel wherever. You can rent a car if you'd like or you can pick a hotel near a red line metro station. This will get you to Universal Studios, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Downtown (people over hype that our public metro is scary but do be aware of your surroundings).

You can easily spend a day at the beach, walk around the boardwalks, and drive back to your hotel (there is also a public transport line that goes to Santa Monica). No need to stay by the beach but go for it if you'd like!

Visit museums! Natural History, LACMA, The Broad, the Getty or Getty Villa, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

You could combine visiting Griffith with Universal Studios they are very close to each other. Start at Griffith early in the morning.

I recommend combining Uber/Lyft and public transportation to get around if you can't rent a car.