With 16 rooms, an outdoor pool, a hot tub, and a fully shared kitchen, California Dreams Hostel runs a backpacker-focused operation a mile inland from the OB Pier on Udall Street. The hostel's in-house surfboard rentals are sized for casual use, leaving specialty gear — cold-water wax, replacement fins, used longboards — to South Coast Surf Shop on Newport Avenue. Continental breakfast is bundled into the nightly rate, and the communal kitchen is stocked for guests cooking their own meals between beach sessions. Wednesday trips to the Ocean Beach Farmers Market supply produce for the hostel kitchen and pair naturally with the property's own event calendar. Private rooms run alongside mixed-gender and female-only dorms, with lockers and charging stations built into the bunks. Culture-night dinners and group programming organized by on-site event coordinators are the signature experience here, turning a short stay into a social one.