SEA SHELL MOTEL AND HOSTEL

Me and my grandma stayed only from 2/13-2/14/24 and this motel right here would be one of the biggest reasons as to why I would return to the Keys. We stayed in a private room for $235 a night during the weekdays & could not be happier. The night manager was absolutely amazing and helped in anyway he could. You can hear the others around you but to be fair no matter what anyone says this is a “party” town so it was expected but had no trouble at all going to sleep, was about a 5 min drive to shops/foods. From Orlando down to the keys we stayed in 3 hotels similar in price and this was by far the best spot we stayed. It was clean, manager was amazing, and so was the location. Absolutely loved staying here. Have already recommended this spot to most of the people I know. Will be returning.

Ich empfehle ein privates zimmer zu nehmen.
Preise sind mit der deutschen Küstenregion zu vergleichen, dafür okay mit 200€ die nacht.

Die Zimmer waren sehr sauber und schön eingerichtet, sind aber leider hellhörig, dafür mit sehr bequemen betten.

Das personal war auch sehr freundlich und hat sehr gute Restaurants empfohlen.

Die Lage ist auch Top, alle Sehenswürdigkeiten sind zufuß in 20min zu erreichen.

I’ll open by saying, Key West is mostly a tourist trap and hotel pricing reflects this. Making it hard for locals (people living in South Florida) to justify coming down to KW and spending the night, if anything touch and go and stay anywhere in the middle keys for way less money, or just go back home. Thanks to Seashell there’s an affordable option, but it comes at a cost.

If you’re paying $99 for a shared bed in a coed hostel, don’t expect an awful lot of privacy. The living space is small, curtains on each bed don’t provide full coverage. As stated in the other comments there is one bathroom connecting the two coed dorms, for 10 beds. Lucky for us when we checked in a 6:30pm, on a Friday, there were only 2 other’s in the coed dorms, so 4 out of 10 beds were used at that point - not terrible to share the bathroom didn’t real notice it heavily used and it was clean. We did have a couple check in at about 10pm when we were going to bed, but they were courteous and conscious of the noise. A/C ran cold, but in the summer months I imagine this place is toasty.

I’d book here again but in the private rooms for a bit more money, other then that this place is the best bang for your buck on a quick overnighter that your not trying to spend a lot.

Also when we tried checking in, the guy behind the counter (not Peter) told us they didn’t have availability, I originally asked for the private, 2 bed room which up until an hour or two till we checked in was available. The manager made it seem like they didn’t have anything, at all, didn’t offer us the single beds.. we walked back to our motorcycles defeated trying to figure out what we were going to do, but before leaving I checked on the website and they still had single occupancy beds in shared dorms available - I awkwardly booked right then online and walked back to the check in window and checked into a hotel we’d been told 5 minutes prior was fully booked. Maybe it was a miscommunication but he could’ve offered those beds. For what it’s worth there were plenty of others that didn’t get used that night..

We were greeted by Hadar who made us feel welcome a d found the best room for our needs as two women traveling together.

The coffee in the morning was welcome and the kitchen area was well stocked. Oops, we forgot our drinks when we left. Cheers to whomever finds them.

Maintenance seems to live with a paintbrush in his had as every surface was sparkling white.

Best value in Key West