What a great place to stay. This hotel has outdoor music on Saturdays and Sundays, it's own "beach area" and of course, access to the all of Beach Haven's beaches. There is a pool and plenty of outdoor bars. Go down and enjoy it, you won't be disappointed.

My husband and I were excited to have our last getaway before our baby was due to arrive so we splurged and reserved an ocean front room!! The room was beautiful -- the problem was it overlooks the tiki bar and is right over the nightclub!!!!! It was sooooooo loud In our room we could not get any sleep! It was awful because we were looking for a relaxing beach holiday!! These rooms are the most expensive (over $300), but they should be the cheapest due to the noise! We slept in a different room the first night -- just so we could actually sleep. The second night we officially moved to a different room -- it wasn't noisy, but was yet to be renovated so it was musty and not as clean as the other room. We felt like we wasted a lot of our time during our last getaway com paining about the noise and moving our room.

Disappointing really because it is in a great location and has so much potential to be great.

The Sea Shell Hotel's location is perfect. The rooms are well designed and very comfortable, the views are beautiful in the ocean front rooms. When we checked in we were told by the person at the front desk that our ocean front room would be a little noisy because they had a DJ scheduled to play that evening. Well a little noisy does not even begin to describe it. Starting at 10:30pm our room was vibrating and we were kept awake by the pounding bass until 2:30am. After the club closed some of the inebriated patrons loudly lingered around. We asked to be moved to another room on the other side of the hotel but still experienced loud music and people on "Thunder Thursday" as they call it. If this vacation was 10 years ago when I was in my 20's I may have a different opinion about the hotel. Next year we will rent a house instead.

I avoided this place at the beginning of the summer because of the reviews here and stayed across the street at the Engelside. Hurricane Irene quashed my family's OBX plans, so we wanted a last minute LBI vacation and Sea Shell had a room.

I found the service to be excellent and friendly (don't agree with others here). The room was clean. We decided on an extra night so we had to move from our Queen room (206) and one full room (118). The Queen room was larger, carpeted, and had better and bigger beds, but the full room worked out well--clean, medium size.

Sea Shell does have a loud bar at night, which only briefly woke me (but not my family) up as patrons left "Thunder Thursday" at last call. The staff was very good about keeping us away from the noise. Noise is probably not an issue if your room is on the west side of the lobby.

On the other hand, the outdoor bar area was great for us during lunch. We all ate, food was very good (fish tacos rocked), live acoustic musician had a beachy low key vibe.. My wife and I had a drink and the kids played in fenced in beach area--very chill. Great atmosphere and it's right on the beach.

The rooms don't have wifi, but the lobby does. Did work late night at it was very pleasant.

It's a great location, friendly staff, clean rooms, good outdoor bar/restaurant. 100% relaxing beach experience.