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Long Beach, CA

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Me and my girlfriend are planning a trip there this summer.

Got tickets from Seattle to Long Beach for $200/ea lined up thru JetBlue.

Where is a decent/cheap-ish place to stay?

What to do? What to see? Fill me in.
 
Don't waste your time with the Queen Mary if you're going to be here for, say, less than a year.

Long Beach is essentially the very south of Los Angeles or the very north of Orange County. Orange County and Los Angeles county are huge. You can find any kind of place in any budget that you want. You want a $600/night room, a crack motel that you can rent by the hour, or something in between?

How long will you be here?

You need a car. You need a car. You need a car.

Try driving from Long Beach to North Hollywood on a Friday afternoon/evening. It'll be an experience you'll never forget!
 
Long Beach to anywhere of interest in LA, 20 mins.
Long Beach to anywhere of interest in OC, 20 mins.

Theres Hollywood, Santa Monica Beach/Pier/3rd St. Promenade.
In OC theres Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Disneyland, OC night life if you wanna go clubbing etc.

And yes you need a car.
 
Long Beach to anywhere of interest in LA, 20 mins.
Long Beach to anywhere of interest in OC, 20 mins.

Theres Hollywood, Santa Monica Beach/Pier/3rd St. Promenade.
In OC theres Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Disneyland, OC night life if you wanna go clubbing etc.

And yes you need a car.
 
OMG, when is the last time you've driven 20 minutes from anywhere to anywhere in LA??!

I guess I can make it from the Valley to the Southbay in 30 minutes after 11PM, but you'd need a helicopter if you try it when the sun is out.

There are decent museums in LA if that's your thing, and I've found no better place than Nother Hollywood for harvesting organs.
 
You need to get much much much closer to the beach if you want to survive.

I would rent a car, drive to an OC beach, get a hotel there, vegetate, and then drive back to the Long Beach airport.

Actually, next time there are airfare deals, fly into San Diego, blow all your money at the Hotel Del Coronado, and walk around town, then go back to the airport. Or stay in downtown San Diego and wander from there, at least there's the trolley.
 
Rumpltzer said:
OMG, when is the last time you've driven 20 minutes from anywhere to anywhere in LA??!

I guess I can make it from the Valley to the Southbay in 30 minutes after 11PM, but you'd need a helicopter if you try it when the sun is out.

There are decent museums in LA if that's your thing, and I've found no better place than Nother Hollywood for harvesting organs.
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You just have to learn traffic patterns, traffic does not own you in LA if you play the game.

If morning:
do not take a freeway direction towards downtown
if afternoon/evening:
do not take a freeway direction away from downtown

there are a few routes that run in directions that result in traffic both ways during rush hour (405, parts of the 5, and parts of the 10 come to mind).

plus, since the OP isn't doing the whole work deal, they can drive at will in west LA during the early afternoon/mid morning. i've made it from east LA (626 area) to west LA (santa monica) with <30 minutes driving time during the middle of a weekday.
 
There's the tar pits at Rancho LaBrea and the condor preserve up near Simi Valley. Other than that, there really isn't much to do in LA.
 
Rumpltzer said:
OMG, when is the last time you've driven 20 minutes from anywhere to anywhere in LA??!

I guess I can make it from the Valley to the Southbay in 30 minutes after 11PM, but you'd need a helicopter if you try it when the sun is out.

There are decent museums in LA if that's your thing, and I've found no better place than Nother Hollywood for harvesting organs.
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Also, you better hope they haven't closed any lanes for construction because even at 3 AM, that can mean a 20 minute delay.
 
Roscoes Chicken & Waffles they have some of best Waffles you'll ever eat. The Chicken's good, but it's whatever to me. I'd stab somebody for a Waffle from there right now though. On Sundays they have live Jazz music, if that you're thing. Belmont Shores is great too, don't let ATOTers try to tell you any differently. I'm not going to argue that most of LB sucks when it comes to the beach but Belmont Shores is win.
 
IronWing said:
There's the tar pits at Rancho LaBrea and the condor preserve up near Simi Valley. Other than that, there really isn't much to do in LA.
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There's a reason why real-estate is always at a premium in LA area cus there's everything to do and has awesome weather.
 
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