Coast Hotel Long Beach - Reviews and Deals - Long Beach

In my time, I have stayed at some great hotels. Some were fantastic because of the 5 star luxury, some offered a great lounge, some had amazing cool sheets that I slept like a baby in.

The Coast Long Beach Hotel now enters my list of great hotels. It's the only one on the list, that I never spent the night at.

I found out on short notice that a client of mine was having a conference at this hotel and needed me to fly in to give a presentation. After searching thru the flight options, I was frustrated to see the only flight I could use was requiring me to get up obscenely early in the morning, only to get into California way before I needed to.

I thought about trying to get ready for my presentation, super early in the morning and still trying to look ready when I actually gave the presentation in the early afternoon.

In a moment of weakness, I called the hotel to ask if there was a way I could "borrow" a room for about 3 hours that morning, so I could instead get ready once I had arrived, relax, have a quiet place to go, and prepare.

The answer? Yes.

I wasn't paying them, and I didn't even directly work for the company that was having the conference there. Still, it appears they were more than happy to just...well...do a good deed.

I arrived at 9:00 am and was given a lovely room - not only that, but the woman that arranged it was summoned so that she could come out, greet me, and see how my flight had been!

I retired to my lovely room and took a look around. It was really clean; way cleaner that a normal hotel room. The shower curtain seemed brand new. The floors glowed.

Another thing that impressed me was that they had a far better lock on the patio door than I often see. Typically the patio doors have very weak locks, and it's a safety issue. This one took safety seriously, with a heavy duty lock that nothing was going to come thru.

Every room, it would seem, has it's own outside sitting area - with the building built in such a way that you always have some privacy.

The hotel could not be located in a better area; right on the water, next to the Queen Mary, and across from the Catalina Island Ferry and the Aquarium.

After I finished my presentation, they were more than happy to hold my bags while I went sightseeing - again, I was not really a guest of the hotel.

I was very impressed by how kind and helpful they were, and if I ever needed a hotel in Long Beach, I would make sure to give them my business...