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Aerial Photo of Newport Beach, California with Lido Island, McFadden Wharf - Newport Pier and Balboa Bay Club Resort

The recently renovated Balboa Bay Club Resort shown in the photo above as the square complex with little white boats neatly lined up (smack dab center & bottom of photo - notice the blue swimming pool in the center of the complex surrounded by a square of buildings)  features hotel rooms and suites on the Newport Beach Bay adjacent to Pacific Coast Highway. Balboa Bay Club  is a fantastic place to get away and relax. Vacations, celebrations and meetings are all fantastic reasons to visit Balboa Bay Club & Resort.

 

Seen in the photograph at is the McFadden Wharf which popularly known as the Newport Pier. It includes a restaurant, beach shops, surfing, bicycling, sunbathing and is home to the local Dory Fishermen open air market where fresh catch-of-the-day is sold.

 

Newport Beach is a vacation paradise popularized in television shows such as The OC. It embodies the lifestyle also made popular by celebrities and athletes such as Dennis Rodman who left Newport and moved next door to Huntington Beach, but is now back in the trendy city with beautiful Fashion Island Shopping Center overlooking the ocean, a large marina, many upscale restaurants and pleasure cruises around the bay and to Catalina Island.

 

The city is situated a short 10 minutes to John Wayne/Orange County Airport, named for the Western film actor who lived in Newport Beach. He is immortalized with a larger-than-life statue in the center entry to the airport. Newport Beach and its villages and towns that are operated within its bounds such as Balboa Island and Corona del Mar, enjoys a Monet-style Impressionistic setting with sailboats and yachts bobbing along the Newport Bay, framed by sites such as the historic Balboa Pavilion.  This is where Glenn Miller and Big Band Era performers enjoyed their season in Southern California's enchanted land, once the final destination for the Pacific Electric Red Car that brought people from Los Angeles to vacations and pleasure at the beach a one-hour ride away.