Wave Hotel, Manhattan Beach

I was visiting my inlaws last June (2010) and decided to stay at a low cost hotel close to their home. It was the weekend so I figured that the hotel would be pretty booked and busy and the rooms would be well kept. I couldn't have been more wrong! The rooms were filthy, the linens were unchanged and the bathrooms were crawling with other people's grime. After a late supper, I returned to the hotel to see a woman who was obviously drunk being led into the hotel by a young man. The man didn't appear to be drunk, and the smile he had looked like he was about to get the golden goose. I felt instantly sorry for the woman who was much older and probably had children the same age as her "date". Come to find out their room was right next to mine, and they were loud! This is not a "nice" person's hotel, to say the least and I will never return.

I'm usually careful about reading reviews for any service...especially hotels, but these are pretty right-on. This hotel has little to offer families and a lot to offer the local women-of-the-night. While I was there I saw mostly drunk couples coming in from the peir and women tripping over themselves. And the noises coming from the rooms were distracting to say the least. I observed one couple come in, looked to be a mother and son, only to realize they were "dating." Like the others said, its a haven for hookers and their johns...wave goodbye to this hotel.

Management does not care about guest comfort and/or satisfaction without a sense of obligation to remedy guest concerns. And they were rude about it - as if we were out of line asking for another towel or to use our room between the hours of 9:30 & 2:30! They started cleaning the room at 9:30 when we went out for the day, we came back at 2:30 and the room was disheveled. No towels, bedding on the floor with missing sheets, pillow cases gone, etc. A beach going guest should be able to come back to the room in the late afternoon for a shower and a nap. Not here! We now have to go see a chiropractor thanks to the BEDS at this place - and there was no working light in the bathroom!! This place is a joke! Waste of hard earned money. Stay at the Hotel Hermosa a bit further south on Sepulveda. That place was genuine and true value.

If you want to get an idea of what this hotel has to offer, just wait until dark to see who sneaks in and out! The other reviews are right on, this place is a home for hoochie women and their pimps! Not a place to vacation or take the kids! Stay away unless you enjoy watching cheaters and the hooks...

If you're looking for a hotel where the hookers go to hang out for a night you've found it... This place has nasty germ (and other things) filled spas in some of the rooms, and with the hooker trashy appeal, you know exactly who stays here and what happens in the rooms. This is a hotel for a one night stand, or a hiding place for spouses sneaking around on each other. Trash and filth lives here...stay away!!

Better suited for hookers and their customers, than for families...not a respectable place to stay by any means.

Fantastic location and the room was wonderful!! CLEAN!!!!!