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Seal Beach Vacation Rentals & Vacation Rental Homes - Rent Holiday Homes in Seal Beach, USA:
Are you looking for a little beach community with loads of charm as well as the convenience of major attractions just minutes away? Welcome to the historic town of Old Town Seal Beach, one of the last quaint beach towns left in Southern California. Come see why the surfers, kite and windsurfers prefer our unspoiled beach away from the crowds. Old Town is approximately 4 blocks deep (from the beach inland) and 17 blocks wide (ocean front). Seal Beach is a very safe town with its own Police, Fire Departments and City Hall. Enjoy a leisurely stroll down the Seal Beach Pier, the second longest wooden pier in California. Walk down historic Main Street and you'll find casual eateries, award winning fine dining restaurants, the locals' favorite Irish Pubs, ice cream parlors and coffee houses, movie theatre, surf shops, bikini stores, bait and tackle, boutiques, antiques, kite store, shell shop, day spas, hair and nail salons, and many other specialty stores including a tropical shop with flowers imported straight from Hawaii! On the weekends, you can get the freshest locally grown fruits, veggies and flowers at the FARMERS MARKET at the Alamitos Bay Marina. Conveniently located at the top of Main Street is a new full service Pavilions Grocery Store and a CVS Drug Store.
Above and beyond our summer "LIVE CONCERTS ON MAIN", you'll enjoy our "telescope friends" that often visit the pier to view PLANETS for free through their monster high speed telescopes! Come visit during spring and summer (March through August) to see our famous GRUNION RUN. It's an amazing thrill to fish these by hand!
At the Marina rent an electric DUFFY BOAT to cruise the charming CANALS of NAPLES, board the REGGAE PARTY BOAT for an evening cruise with LIVE MUSIC, catch the WATER TAXI to the QUEEN MARY, AQUARIUM of the PACIFIC of Long Beach or take a romantic ride in a GONDOLA and be serenaded under one of the bridges in NAPLES. Drive 10 minutes and enjoy a BONFIRE on the SAND at BOLSA CHICA BEACH! HUNTINGTON BEACH known as "SURF CITY USA" is south 15 minutes.
Drive 20 minutes to DISNEYLAND, DISNEY'S NEW CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE, KNOTT'S BERRY FARM, KNOTT'S SOAK CITY WATER PARK, MEDIEVAL TIMES, PIRATE'S DINNER ADVENTURE or the LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM STADIUM to just name a few!
AIRPORTS – LAX 26 miles; Long Beach 7 miles; John Wayne, Orange County (SNA) 19 miles.
So come visit one of the LAST QUAINT BEACH TOWNS, you'll want to come back soon!
Seal Beach TriviaThe 2001 movie American Pie 2 used Main Street for their beach town scene. In the late 90's, the very first soap opera produced by Aaron Spelling, award winning Sunset Beach, was also filmed in Seal Beach. During the summer of 2008, there were several production companies that utilized homes and businesses as on-location sets for their movies and cable television (in production).
Famous natives and residents:
Jack Haley, former NBA player.
Robert August, one of the two surfers in Bruce Brown's classic surf flick The Endless Summer.
Juliette Brewer actor who played Marianne in the Little Rascals Film.
Carey Hart, motorcycle racer and owner of tattoo shops.
Bill Henderson, film director and MTV video director.
Clayton Snyder actor who played Ethan Craft in the Lizzie McGuire TV show and Film.
Pat McCormick, a two-time Olympic platform and springboard gold metal diver.
Randy Stonehill Grammy nominated singer/songwriter with wife Sandi.
Chad Wackerman, Rock and Jazz drummer who has worked with Frank Zappa, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor and many others.
Bill Ward, drummer and occasional lead vocalist of hard rock/heavy metal band, Black Sabbath. Bill is also a solo artist.
The ska and alternative rock band RX Bandits were formed in Seal Beach.
Steve Goodman, singer-songwriter and author of "City of New Orleans", "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" and "You Never Even Call Me By My Name".