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Reported phenomena, as catalogued
Modern Long Beach Marriott with Local Room 217 Folklore
4700 Airport Plaza Drive, Long Beach, CA 90815
Research updated May 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Standard Marriott rates typically $150-$300 depending on season.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved hotel grounds; standard hotel accessibility throughout
Equipment
Photos OK
The Long Beach Marriott opened as a standard suburban-corporate Marriott full-service hotel adjacent to Long Beach Airport. The 309-room property is configured for business, leisure, and event clientele, with more than 12,000 square feet of meeting space, two outdoor pools, and a fitness center.
The hotel's surrounding neighborhood is the Long Beach Airport business district. The building is modern construction; published research does not attach the property to a notable pre-existing historical site, named former owner, or significant local incident.
The hotel is a member of the Marriott Bonvoy program and is operated as a standard franchise property. Room categories include standard king and double-queen rooms, executive concierge-level rooms, and suites.
No dedicated paranormal investigation, historical-society documentation, or news-archive material describes a haunted history at the property. The Room 217 lore exists almost entirely on user-submitted aggregator pages.
The Long Beach Marriott is a thirteen-story circular tower hotel with an annex, located at the intersection of Interstate 405 and Lakewood Boulevard near Long Beach Airport. The property operates as a full-service business and conference hotel under the Marriott Hotels & Resorts brand, providing meeting space and on-site dining alongside its guest accommodations.
Sources
The Long Beach Marriott's haunted reputation rests almost entirely on user-submitted reports compiled by California ghost-aggregator sites. The most-cited reports concern Room 217. Guests have described needing to press the television's power button repeatedly before the set will switch off, a tugging or pulling sensation on the bedspread while seated on the bed, and a brief touch on the upper back near the shoulder blades.
FrightFind and similar sites list the property among Long Beach's haunted hotels but acknowledge that the accounts are individual user reports rather than documented investigations. There is no historical figure, named entity, or institutional record attached to the lore.
Neither the Marriott corporate property nor Visit Long Beach incorporates the lore into the hotel's published material. Guests interested in Room 217 can request the room at booking; the hotel makes no commitment about its availability or its purported activity.
A standard 309-room Marriott near Long Beach Airport. Local ghost-folklore aggregators consistently identify Room 217 as the room associated with reports of a television that resists turning off and a tugging sensation on the bedspread. The hotel does not officially market the lore.
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