Moonlight Beach Motel sits two blocks from Moonlight State Beach in Old Encinitas, making its 24-room property the closest lodging to the sand in the 92024 ZIP. All studios and suites include full kitchenettes with stovetops, refrigerators, and coffee makers, and the open-air exterior corridor layout eliminates shared hallways and elevators — a configuration that also puts guests within a short walk of the board racks at Encinitas Surfboards on the 101. Upper-floor rooms on the south side of the building offer private balconies with unobstructed Pacific sight lines from D Street to Beacon's Beach. The property's communal garden patio includes barbecue grills and outdoor dining furniture, and its location on 2nd Street places it within the same downtown block grid as 1st Street Bar and the restaurants lining South Coast Highway 101. Soundproofed rooms, air conditioning, and flat-screen cable televisions are standard across every unit in the nonsmoking building.