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Cheap in the Marina
Affordable places to eat in and near Marina Del Rey.
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Outdoor Places
Beaches, sites, Views, forests, .... you get the idea!
Marina del Rey Beach
- Good for Kids:
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4 reviews for Marina del Rey Beach
4 reviews in English
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Review from Porsche C.
Fullerton, CA
12/29/2011 2 Check-ins Here
I often come here for quiet reflection. It is nowhere near as crowded as its neighbor Venice. I usually walk from the Marina side where parking is better. The parking is poor. Do not park on Washington without loyally paying the meter. You will get ticketed. As well, there really is not a convenient public restroom or food.
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Review from C S.
Los Angeles, CA
8/8/2011 1 Check-in Here
Great Beach Area right below the Venice Pier. Parking is tough to find sometimes, but then again when isn't it if you're going to the beach. But most of the side streets are free if you can manage to find an open spot. Not many local bathrooms or bike path below the Pier though.
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Review from Ivana I.
Los Angeles, CA
6/29/2006
The beaches of Venice can get sketchy and over-populated, as can those of Santa Monica. Zuma, on the northern tip of Malibu, is still my favorite. But the quiet, reflective beach in Marina del Rey, is not as far of a drive if you don't feel like dealing with that Sunday PCH traffic. And like its big sister Zuma, you feel comfortable hitting it alone w/ a good book and a good sun umbrella for some of that aforementioned reflection we all need from time to time. (Bonus: few things will give your legs a better workout than a long, sweaty walk through deep sand.) ;-)
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Review from paulo a.
Diamond Bar, CA
1/19/2009
All in all a good beach to chill at. The beach starts where Venice Beach ends around the pier at Washington and it extends all the way to the Marina Del Rey harbor entrance. The beach is very wide.
Here are a few notes about this place:
1) The parking lot fills up early on summer weekends.
2) There is parking in the local neighborhoods, but you need to know where to look. The free street parking is difficult to find during the summer.
3) There is only food by the pier to the North and only houses to the South - nowhere to eat. So if you stray far from the pier you need to bring what you need.
4) There are only bathrooms by the pier and by the marina. It is a long walk in to them if you are sitting somewhere in the middle.
5) The beach area around the pier gets very crowed in the summer.
6) The South part of the beach is far less crowed.
7) On some days there are a good number of men that enjoy wearing thongs and g-strings. Never have seen any problems with them, but I have seen some parents freak out when their rug rats are playing in the water and a 99% naked dude strolls by.
8) I have seen many men sneak up on women out tanning to snap those notorious pictures of women's crotches you see about on the Internet. Have also seen some men with video cameras in their bags walking around trying to find some compromising shots of women laying around.
9) Be careful if you walk around on the sand in the area right in front of the houses. You might learn that this seemingly perfect area of beach is also the toilet of a slew of wealthy dogs. This leaves me to wonder what those dogs did in a previous life to deserve getting to use the beach as their personal crapper? Fresh air, sun, sand, ocean views and you get to drop a load if you're a dog.
10) Dogs are not allowed on the beach.
11) No smoking or alcohol on the beach.
12) If you park in a metered area on Washington you better pay the meter or you will get a ticket very quickly.
13) The police are very tolerant of everything that does not impose on others. Wish the LAPD was the same way.
14) The water by the marina sometimes contains higher than normal levels of bacteria.
