I love the Ayres Hotel in Seal Beach.

The staff is polite and friendly. The lobby and common areas are tastefully decorated and very clean.

The rooms are LARGE (both big rooms and tall ceilings) and tastefully decorated. The beds are very comfortable. The bathrooms are spacious.

The breakfast is quite good for a free hotel breakfast. They have a nice outdoor patio with a small waterfall and vines growing overhead. Very peaceful. There is a nice, small pool.

For this part of California, the prices are very fair.

I've stayed at the Ayres several times on business, and am very pleased every time. It is a great value, and a wonderful hotel.

I wish the managers of many other hotels would come to the Ayres and learn how to run a proper hotel...

This hotel is a great place to stay. Easy access off the freeway, close to stores (CVS, Target, Kohl's, Bed Bath and Beyond) and very comfortable accomodations. Big and clean rooms and if you stay on the 3rd floor, there are high ceilings. Free complimentry breakfast and free newspapers, both USA Today and a local newspaper. Staff is extremely professional and responsive. Small pool and jazuzzi with towels available poolside. Even thought the hotel is located right next to Hwy 405/22, there was very little freeway noise and my room was facing the freeway.

Just a great stay at Ayres Seal Beach. I really needed a good night sleep in the middle of a very hectic business trip and that's exactly what they delivered. Room was very comfortable and well appointed. Breakfast generous. Location convenient. Check in and check out handled with outmost professionalism. What more can I say?

I was booked in this hotel for a visit to California State University, Long Beach--which is about ten minues away. (I later learned that the university uses this facility because it will bill them directly for sponsored stays.)

At any rate this is a remarkably good hotel. The staff were friendly and responsive; the rooms were done in the style that I call "boutique"--that is not Danish modern. But my room was very clean, and very quiet even though it faced the San Diego Freeway (405)..

I suppose that that is what makes the hotel a bit different--it's like a boutique facility in, say, San Francisco, in a Holiday Inn location. There are several restaurants nearby and it is about a two and a half block walk to a shopping mall wth a full Ralph's Grocery and a Target, CVS pharmacy and other shops. Of coure this is Southern California so no one thinks of walking such a long distance!!! The complementary breakfast is very nice--fresh cooked eggs if you want, pancakes or French Toast, cereals, rolls and breads, fresh fruit and juices.

Anything wrong with this place. Well not really, except that it has no other food service (not even a vending machine that might have cookies or crackers) but the grocery is close by and my room had a fridge, a microwave and a coffee-maker. The only notable shortcoming is the airconditioning. It has two settings. Off or Gale Force Winds aka 'on' I found the draft to be a bit uncomfortable and left my second room key in the 'energy-saver slot, put the temperature down quite a bit and left the room. Once cooled, I left the AC off for most of the time..

The Ayres family has some other hotels in the area, and they are probably just as nice, allthough his appears to be one of the newest in the chain. Highly recommended.