The Top 2 Hotels in Huntington Beach

A beachfront hotel where the vintage VW van parked out front and surfboard art signal surrender to coastal living, Paséa sits steps from Huntington Beach Pier with rooms dressed in blues and sand tones. The rooftop bar and Balinese spa reinforce what the place keeps insisting: that the Pacific, not the room itself, is the real draw here.

The Shorebreak sits where Pacific Coast Highway meets legend, a Kimpton property planted directly across from the pier in a town that long ago claimed surfing as its identity. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the pier and the Pacific beyond, anchoring what feels less like a resort and more like a finally adequate stage set for the place itself.