One of the great things about Laguna Beach is the Main Beach Area.  If you have a hotel in the area you want have to drive your car one time unless you just want to see something else in another location.  We stayed at a hotel about 3 blocks from the beach.  I will describe that stay in a later post.  Just try a search for "hotel" in the quicksearch box to the upper left.  I like the fact that you can walk to the beach, walk to the stores, walk to art galleries and to neighborhoods in the area without using a car.  I would say you can occupy yourself for about five days here without a car and have plenty to do at the beach and enjoy a large variety of restaurants.  I will post on that as well later.  I personally believe the main beach area is kid friendly.  I have been taking my little girl since she was 3 and she is now 7.  We ask her on a regular basis where she wants to go on vacation and she says, " I wanna go to Laguna Beach and New York".  I tell her what does she think we are millionaires and she replies "yeah".  Kids are funny.  They have no clue what it cost to do these trips.  They also think you can fly to New York for a few days and then across the country to California for another few days.  Oh talking about Cost...it's really not that bad if you get the right deals.  Coming from Texas we do pretty good and stay under $2000 for everything each time we go and that includes beach front hotel, rental car and flights.  We are planning a trip in Marth 2008 and June 2008 to Laguna and both will cost around $2000-$2300 and June is high season.  I will post some links later for finding some good deals.



This picture as you can see was taken in 2007.  This is when the sun was going down and we were trying to get some good pictures with the cheap camera we brought.  I was scared to bring my good camera since I like playing on the beach in the sand.  Sand is not good on the ole lenses.  At any rate it gives you a good idea of the area called the "Main Beach Area".



This is a low resolution picture.  Too bad it doesn't show the real beauty.  I guess this is what you call a teaser picture. 



This is across the street from the main beach.  Traffic starting to get a little thick.  Laguan Beach Traffic is pretty intense before and after work.  There are only two lanes coming in and two lanes going out.  Because of the location you have to drive a pretty long ways to get out of the area.  To my knowledge there are really only four ways into Laguna Beach.  One Coming in from from the highway either north or south.  One at Main Beach here going East and another one about 6 miles down the road that goes east.  I would check a map, but steer clear of traffic in the morning and when everyone gets off work.  It's not like LA so don't think its going to take two hours, but it will take you ten to twenty minutes to go that short distance.