http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T04:28:00Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Malibu-Beach-Hotels-Map http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/14/11035/7876 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/malibumotelTA.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Malibu-Beach-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/malibubeachmap.jpg" align="right"></a>If you were to stay in a motel in Malibu, the easy-to-remember <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Malibu+Motel+/ian/260414"><b>Malibu Motel</b></a> might be your best choice.<p>Partially-rebranded as <b>The M</b>, the motel promises 18 clean, retro-styled &nbsp;rooms near the Malibu Pier and Surfrider Beach. The rooms even sport plasma TVs, refrigerators, 400-thread count bed linens, and private ocean decks. How do we know all this? Because thankfully, the M has a website. Wahoo!<p><p> One guest on <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/12266522@N08/1243941252/">Flickr</a> writes:<blockquote><p>The view from the M, Malibu Motel. Given, its not the best view, this roadside motel has to be one of the favorite places I have ever stayed. Simple, clean, very courteous staff and very affordable. </blockquote></p><p>However, guests over at <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g32676-d561585-r13282222-Malibu_Motel-Malibu_California.html">TripAdvisor</a> have had juliana 2008-05-14T11:29:01-05:00 34.040231 -118.66612 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/7/153940/3475 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/surfridermotel.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Malibu-Beach-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/malibubeachmap.jpg" align="right"></a>Yup, you read that headline right. This one's a motel in Malibu and there are actually quite a few of them along PCH. None of them are very good (and prone to loud traffic as you can guess from this picture) but they are cheap. <p>One of them is <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Malibu+Shores+Motel/local/1218"><b>The Surfrider Beach Club</b></a>, formerly the Malibu Shores Motel. The motel has two brief favorable reviews on <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g32676-d250121-Reviews-Malibu_Shores_Motel-Malibu_California-m10559.html">TripAdvisor</a> under its old name. But there is a more recent reivew on <a href="http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=25661303&lsrc=results&p=Hotels+Motels&csz=Malibu%2C+CA&fr=&lcscb=dK8FUzuph8r">Yahoo! Local</a> site. Rebecca wrote:<blockquote><p>Surf's up at Surfrider!: Malibu Shores Motel is now Surfrider Beach Club; it has new carpet and paint, but the same tiny rooms are rented as unfurnished apartments. All juliana 2008-05-13T11:43:57-05:00 34.037251 -118.67809 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/7/153658/4418 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/malibucountry_map.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Malibu-Beach-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/malibubeachmap.jpg" align="right"></a>While our previous Malibu Beach Hotels stops have received seriously glowing reviews, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Malibu+Country+Inn/ian/259188"><b>Malibu Country Inn</b></a> further up on PCH near Zuma Beach doesn't have quite the laudits as its competitors.<p>From the outside, the inn looks like a safe haven and why shouldn't it? It's an all-white Cape Cod-style inn built in 1943 on the bluffs overlooking Zuma Beach. However, inside is not so picturesque. <p>The first reviews on <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g32676-d119461-Reviews-Malibu_Country_Inn-Malibu_California.html">TripAdvisor</a> say "Smelly rooms" and "Unchic Shabby", a diss on the Shabby Chic decor that so many Malibu residents favor. Yet there are some renovated rooms (out of 16 total) on site, so you'll have to request those. However, that's not a guarantee juliana 2008-05-12T11:37:50-05:00 34.016702 -118.81584 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/7/154755/9582 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/casalarronde.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Malibu-Beach-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/malibubeachmap.jpg" align="right"></a><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Casa+Larronde/local/1213"><b>Casa Larronde</b></a> is a little-known spot on PCH that is technically not a hotel, nor a B&amp;B, nor a motel nor an inn.<p>It's a house on Carbon Beach that has two guest bedrooms including the <b>John Travolta Suite</b> where JT apparently stayed for three months in 1977 after he hit it big with <i>Saturday Night Fever.</i><p>But before Travolta was here, the house was the fifth house built on Carbon aka Billionaire's Beach in 1951. Today, it gets rented out for most of the summer and during the rest of the year, the elderly owner Charlou Larronde rents out the two rooms, breakfast included. Here's how <a href="http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/41676648/malibu_ca/casa_larronde.html">Los Angeles Citysearch</a> described the place:<br> <blockquote><p>With floor-to-ceiling juliana 2008-05-07T15:58:12-05:00 34.038240 -118.65354 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/6/165635/6121 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/casa_malibu_inn_on_the.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Malibu-Beach-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/malibubeachmap.jpg" align="right"></a> Despite its ugly sign and tired exterior facing the Pacific Coast Highway that seems to do the opposite of beckoning guests in for the night, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Casa+Malibu+Inn/local/1212"><b>The Casa Malibu Inn on the Beach</b></a> is actually one of Malibu's best hideaway hotels on the beach.<p>It's the #1 hotel on <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g32676-d78107-r15439787-Casa_Malibu_Inn_on_the_Beach-Malibu_California-m10559.html">TripAdvisor</a> (out of a whopping 5) and it was called out by the Today Show as being one of the five best-kept secret getaways in the U.S. Jamie Lee Curtis even told <a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/my-favorite-place-march-2007">Travel + Leisure</a> it was one of her favorite places for travel bliss. He's what she said:<blockquote><p>I drove past all these celebrities' houses--many of which I had visited in the past--and pulled juliana 2008-05-06T17:10:56-05:00 34.038911 -118.67109 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/