Malibu Beach Club Day Bed Prices

Here is the honest version most price pages will not give you: Malibu does not really have beach clubs in the European sense, and there are almost no daybeds to rent by the day. The famous Malibu coast runs on a different model, one of private members clubs, hotel restaurants with a view and long stretches of free public sand, so the question of what a daybed costs mostly does not apply the way it would in Marbella or Mykonos.

What Malibu does have is worth knowing before you arrive expecting loungers and bottle service on the sand. The most exclusive spots are members only clubs where the cost is a membership, not a day rate. The next tier is hotel and restaurant dining on the beach, where you pay for a table and a view rather than a bed. And underneath it all sit some of the best free public beaches in California, where the only charge is the parking. We list the real, established venues below with their actual model, and mark every figure to be confirmed rather than invent a daybed price that does not exist.

The reason Malibu confounds the beach club question is that its coast is built on private property and public access law, not on the European lido model. Much of the sand sits below private homes on the famous Carbon Beach, and the exclusive social spots are members clubs like the Soho House on the beach, where the cost is a membership rather than a day rate. There is simply no row of daybeds to book by the hour the way there is on a Mediterranean beach.

So the real cost of a Malibu beach day takes one of three shapes. It is a dining bill if you want the polish, at Carbon Beach Club, Nobu or Duke's, where you pay for a table and a view rather than a lounger. It is a membership if you want the exclusive clubs, which is not a day you can simply book. Or it is close to free, at the superb public beaches like Zuma and Surfrider, where the only charge is the car park and you bring your own shade. Anyone arriving expecting to rent a bed and order bottles to the sand will be looking for something Malibu does not really sell, so we mark every figure to be confirmed and point you at the model that actually fits your day.

The honest way to plan a Malibu beach day is to decide which model you want first. For the polish, book a table at a venue like one of the Malibu beach venues in our directory and pay for the view rather than a bed. For a cheap, beautiful day, take the free public sand at Zuma or Surfrider with your own umbrella and just pay the parking. Send a date and party size through the form and we help confirm what is genuinely open to non members for the day you want.