Great beach with lots of activities happening but still much room for just chilling! Loved the beach cafés, CLEAN washrooms and ability to rent bikes. If you visit you must rent a bike and ride the beautiful path along the beach. Rode from Malibu to Marina Del Ray, stopping along the way in Venise beach. What a day!

What an absolutely lovely beach in fact the best I've seen in a long time. Go for a stroll before breakfast when it's desolate and at its most beautiful. Super healthy walk away from traffic in Santa Monica.

Santa Monica Beach was clean and full of sunworshiping people. We rode bikes along the path and saw lots of people playing volleyball and making sand castles. Patrons ranged from families with young kids to couples on a romantic getaway. It would be nice if there were more food choices, but there are only a string of "Perry's Beach Cafe's".... More

Kind of disappointed with the beach. Thought it would be fun to let the kids play in the surf after visiting Santa Monica Pier but left rather quickly. The beach was dirty and the waterind of smelled weird. Maybe if we were farther from the Pier it would be better.

All kinds of people! Beach was clean and the police were visible giving you a feel of security. It started to get crowded when we were leaving on Saturday afternoon, but the beach is huge and free just pay to park.

The beach is fun, there's a small theme park inside th beach. If u had watched baywatch before, their office now become a restaurant. If u going by car, the parking fee is $12 /car. Quite expensive :(. But overall the beach was fun ;)

Went to Long Beach the previous day & this is 10x better, no Snoop Dogg impersonators here & didn't see a single beer bottle knocking about. The beach is huge! Takes like 5 mins to walk across the sand to get close to the sea, there are even showers & toilets/changing facilities on the edge for when your leaving so... More

The sun was shining, it was relaxing and inviting. The beach was wonderful! It was neat seeing the kids play in the sand.

Nice to walk down to Venice Beach, watch the Beachvolley players an the small shops and artists in venice