Balboa Bay Club
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| Founded | 1948 |
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| Location | 1221 West Coast Highway, Newport Beach, California, United States |
| Website | balboabayclub |
The Balboa Bay Resort is a 160-room resort hotel in Newport Beach, California, United States on 15 acres (6.1 ha). The facility was founded in 1948 as the Balboa Bay Club, a private yacht club. The Balboa Bay Club includes a 130-slip marina, private beach, waterfront pools, private restaurant, a spa and fitness center, and 145 apartments on the Newport Beach Harbor waterfront on the Pacific Coast Highway.
Originally called The Balboa Bay Club and Resort, the facility opened in May 2003 as a waterfront hotel, resort, and separate private members yacht club. Over its history the club has seen many changes and additions to its structures. The club today features a hotel, as well as short and long term apartments, located on the oceanfront.
A restaurant, "The First Cabin", a bar, "Duke’s Place", and a library/lounge were revised in 2014 and renamed "Waterline" & "A&O Kitchen + Bar" respectively within the Resort/BBR. It was announced in June 2014 that the hotels guest rooms would be undergoing revision in 2015. The club provides 14 meeting and board rooms. The club has 3 pools. The original pool that was a fixture in the center of the club from its onset is still in place today is now surrounded by the club's hotel. An additional private members-only pool was installed in 2003 near the main beach. A 17,000-square-foot spa and fitness center is located in the members’ clubhouse. The apartments also have a pool located in its complex.
In May 2012, the new owners announced that plans to again renovate the club were under development and it went on the state that public meetings would be held to allow for input from the public.
The Balboa Bay Club at one time had tennis courts onsite and also had an off-site tennis club, named the Balboa Bay Racquet Club located in the nearby Newport Center. The Balboa Bay Racquet Club is now The Tennis Club at the Newport Beach Country Club.
The original, private Balboa Bay Club was owned by Jack Wrather from 1960 until 1971, when he sold it to William Ray. In 1988, William Ray was inducted into the International Hall of Fame for his conservation efforts.
Ray died in 1991, and his widow, Beverly Ray Parkhurst owned the club until 2012. The 160-room hotel opened to the public on May 14, 2003. In 2011 the club was sold to Winston Chung, a Chinese businessman. It was later reported that the sale to Chung fell out of escrow as Chung was having difficulty moving funds out of China to pay for the purchase.
In June 2012, the BBC was sold to Richard H. Pickup and his family members, Eagle Four Partners and Pacific Hospitality Group, LLC
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