Day 4, and for many the highlight of the trip so far - the Warner Bros Studio Tour, Hollywood. Once we arrived at the tour and mounted our golf carts, the magic began. We saw sets and buildings used throughout Warners history, drove through the jungle (as seen most memorably in Jurrasic Park), visited the prop store (where we took turns to sit in the Presidents chair used in The West Wing) and marvelled at the work going on to prepare for a huge mounting of Grease to be broadcast live on TV on Sunday night. from the Warner archive, we saw costumes and vehicles from the Batman films, including the new Batmobile as used in Batman Vs Superman, and the always popular room of props from the Harry Potter franchise, where the sorting hat sorted the Hufflepuffs from the Slitherins.

Finally, we explored the new tour closing attraction, an interactive display of pre-production artefacts and opportunities to sit in the Central Perk set from Friends, hold a real Oscar statue, and be filmed against a green screen riding Batmans bike or Harry Potter's broomstick.

The afternoon afforded a bit of respite - time to swim, sit by the pool and relax after our hectic schedule. in the evening we ate an all-American buffet at the hotel, a monsterous amount of food that the 30 of us barely made a dent in. Revitalised, we were able to prepare for our last full day in LA at Universal Studio.