Seaside Ice

Watching the sun set at an outdoor skating rink is just beautiful. The rink is a little small and the zamboni is a bit slow, but the atmosphere is nice.
The music is very 90’s Pop, so there was a lot of «Hit Me, Baby… One More Time» and the like. I couldn’t determine if I was nostalgically pleased or slightly embarrassed. And then I realized that today’s music doesn’t get much better anyway, so all in all — it was a happy evening.

Their back!!! I went over the weekend and i had a blast! it was so beautiful to watch the sunset and go ice skating. This year they have added more elements and it’s exciting to see that they are back again. they need to have something fun and exciting in the South Bay. i also follow them on twitter and they do discount specials for $ 10! That’s great as I love bargins! They also have coupons for Baleen restaurant which I love and I was so excited to get «free truffle mac n’cheese»! Yummy.
My company is planning to have their Holiday party here again and I can’t wait.

Yesterday was my girlfriend’s 22^nd birthday and i wanted to do something special for her. We had been talking about going ice skating for a few days now, my search for something new and different led me to find Seaside Ice. Its exactly what is sounds like, a rink in the middle of the sand. I arrived at sunset and it was a gorgeous view from the rink. The rink is a nice size and the staff is very friendly. Definitely a family place, the only down side was that the ice gets a little sloshy towards the end of the day but it is more than excusable. If your looking for something a bit out of the ordinary give it a try, and if your looking to make a event out of it, Hermosa Pier is down the street with lots of bars and places to eat.

My company threw our company holiday party and it was a blast!!! We usually have the typical stuffy cocktail party and outdoor ice skating was so much fun! We plan on it again next year! Check out the pictures. The staff that couldn’t make it had to hear all the buzz after and they were jealous!

What a great place. Palm tree’s, the ocean and then ice skating. The kids and their friends skated all day and now they want to go back. The skates were new and nice too. It was busy, but now overly crowded.

Only in LA can you ice skate at the beach in a bikini (look at photos).
This was the first year for Seaside Ice and they plan to make this a yearly event. Someone complained that the ice was not 100% but it’s difficult when we have warm weather and it is the experience that is most important.
The LA Kings came here one night to allow fans to skate with them which is really cool.
Seaside Ice is now gone for the year but with any luck it will be back.

Should you check out the web cite for seaside ice, do not believe a word they are saying. The owners just want to make money on us. They got a nice deal out of city hall not to pay a decent rent, while they do not clean the ice properly or care for people’s safety. I saw lots of snow on the ice and melted areas with water! The charge is $ 14 adult $ 12 child. An average family would spend over $ 50 for bad service and unsafe conditions. The owner is very rude. Should you ask for your money back, because it is so bad, you can not skate even 15 min, the owner would tell you to go away! Apparently, $ 14 is more important to him than your satisfaction or safety!

We went ice skating on a Saturday night and it was pretty cool to ice skate next to the Ocean, but the atmosphere was a little shabby and not what I was expecting after having visited Coronado’s outdoor ice skating rink a year ago. Still, it was a fun way to spend an hour and good exercise!

Went last Saturday night a little after 6pm. I read they had a private party from 3−6pm so I didnt arrive before. I really wanted to be there when the sun set, but it just didnt happen and my friends didnt want to go Sunday.
$ 14 adult ticket is good for 90 minutes. The lady at the window said they started the «session» already and wanted to verify if we wanted to go in still since the session ended at 7:30. We said sure, 20 minutes into the «session» didnt matter. I had called earlier and I was told it was more of a revolving 90 minutes from the time you arrive. And they only really enforce it if its crowded. Well turns out there wasnt much enforcement at all, but I dont think it was a lack of crowd either.
Normal group of ice skaters, mostly teenage kids, some daters, some parents and small kids, and some adults just checking it out like me. It never got really overcrowded, so no real complaint. But the size of the rink is fairly small. So for maybe a moment or two i felt a bit crowded.
The biggest gripe about it is the surface was like ¹⁄₃ wet. Mostly on the far ends. I guess there wasnt adequate or even cooling for a 60 degree evening.
We stayed a little past the 7:30 mark, there was no call for end of «session». And no zamboni resurfacing either. We got off the ice before 8 tho and returned the skates.
The skates seemed new and decent. No option for hockey skates, but I brought my own anyway.
Its a nice idea, pleasant place to bring a date for sure. Or just to go if you enjoy ice skating, or doing something different. But I missed the novelty of being there while it was more apparent the ocean is literally 100m away, since its not so obvious at night. The view of the PV hills is still nice tho, and you can smell the ocean. but the immediate view of the drained Seaside Lagoon is NOT a pretty sight. Its still a nice outdoor ice rink and that alone makes it cool in Socal.
I’m leaving it at 3 stars for now. Not a reflection of too much negative, it was run and operated very well, was a pleasant experience, just not happy with the water on the ice and my own timing. So it wasnt thrilling either.
We paid $ 4 for parking.

i went here on Friday night and it was lots of fun! 90 minute session for $ 14 dollars. The skates were nice and new :)
There were colored lights set up by the rink, loud music playing, and everyone was having a good time. 90 minutes seemed like a perfect time to be skating for.
There was a booth from the Brazilian BBQ restaurant which is close by selling food and making the whole place smell delicious. Santa was also there taking pix with the little ones.
It was fun times and I recommend you check it out. Where else do you see people with tank tops and short ice skating on the beach!
Gotta love Southern California…

Come ice skate at the beach!
Woohooo, it’s practically right in my backyard, next to Redondo Pier.
The new rink has been open only about a week, I think.
I ran into local artist Richard Stephens, who tipped me off that the rink had opened, and who did the very cute murals that stand next to the rink. He told me he had only a few days’ notice to complete the paintings! Wow, that’s very impressive, even with helpers.
The paintings depict sea critters on skates! And a polar bear snuck in there, too, see photos. (You’re so cool polar bears wear ice skates around you??? haha…)
There’s a large unpainted area next to one of the murals that is reserved for showing movies! Sounds great, but that’s all the info I have on that, so far.
So I stopped by the rink at sundown today, on Thanksgiving. The parking lot gates (the lot across from Gold’s Gym) were up, meaning everybody parks for free. No attendant was around, yay! But I have no idea what it would cost normally. There’s metered parking on surrounding streets, though, and of course there’s parking at the Pier.
The ice rink is directly behind Ruby’s Diner. Ruby’s has an order window accessible from the rink area, too, handy. Get your food without leaving the ice park and carry it to one of the many picnic tables surrounding the rink.
I didn’t have to pay to enter the rink area. You pay only if you want to skate. Cost of skating includes skate rental. For 90 minutes, it’s $ 12 for kids 12 & under, and $ 14 for adults. I dunno if I would put my feet into rental shoes or skates, I never would rent bowling shoes… icky.
Too bad I didn’t hang onto my ice skates! Which reminds me of my skating days… I feel a story coming on…
Haha, as a kid I took figure skating lessons at Michael Kirby on Chicago’s South Side. I think it was around 78^th & Loomis. This was a hundred years ago. My mother would drop me off a few times a week. I got really good from all those lessons, but one time my regular instructor wasn’t there and I had a sub. He thought I was even more advanced than I was, he musta got me mixed up with some other kid.
So when we hit the ice, he started doing lifts! I was up over his head before I could say anything. Shit, my mother would have fainted on the sidelines, I’m glad she had already left. Next thing I knew he had me by one wrist and one ankle and was swinging me around and around… haha I had decided by that time that it was very cool, so I didn’t even speak up when I finally did have a chance.
That’s all I remember of that day… but I tell you, Kristie Yamaguchi would have been proud of me & my spirit of adventure…
Those memories flooded my mind as I stared at the glassy ice rink today. Oh man I wanted to see if I could still skate like in the old days, but I would need to buy my own skates. We’ll see. I also could break my fool neck, that could happen. And that is probably why everyone who pays to skate at this rink must sign a waiver… lol…they were expecting me to show up…
And…the music! Holy crap, they got a DJ set up under a canopy, and it’s good and loud. I heard Latin dance music and even Saturday Night Fever songs! I wanna do the famous John Travolta dance on skates! Woohooo!
The sun was just going down as I was there today, and the ice was covered with a bit of standing water. But the staff told me that by evening time it will all be frozen perfect. And it’s well-​lighted for skating after dark.

I could see the spray from the surf crashing on the rocks near the ice rink, that’s how close you are to the ocean. The Palos Verdes Peninsula is the view in the background, and it’s gorgeous at night, like Hollywood Hills with all the little distant lights.
Current hours for the rink are:
Monday — Thursday 11am — 9:30pm
Friday 11am — 10pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am — 10pm
I’ll see you there. I’ll be the one flying through the air, landing gracefully, silhouetted by the moonlight…
if only in my dreams tonight…

Watch out Rockefeller Center, you have some competition. My friends in LA told me about this event starting. It’s a huge tradition and a totally cool thing to ice skate in the center of New York City– but how about the beach in LA? They can’t compete with that — you have to bundle up like an eskimo to skate in New York. I wonder, will it be warm enough to skate in shorts? That would be wild! I am actually going to fly down from SF to check it out.

Seaside Ice is almost a reality, I am told by the guys putting it together.
It will be totally amazing– a green, eco friendly rink at the beach in the controlled access area of Seaside Lagoon.
Stay tuned for confirmation of all events, beginnng Nov. 18^th to about Jan. 11^th.

So Im not sure when the outdoor ice skating rink at the beach is going to be open but my friend told me about this and I thought the whole idea of it was pretty darn dope.
Its an ice skating rink next to the beach… I figured if you were going to do the So Cal thing in the winter you would want to go ice skating but next to a beach since that would be the cali thing to do!
I cant wait to see what this turns out like since I have never heard of such an idea!