Along Highway 1 through Harbor City, the budget-priced Rodeway Inn is a small motel with exterior corridors and limited amenities - just free internet access and free coffee/pastries in the morning - but the 33 rooms are quite comfortable, and equipped with a microwave, refrigerator and flat screen TV. There are many restaurants and small shops nearby, Harbor Park & Los Angeles Harbor College are a few blocks east, and the property is about half way (6 miles) between Long Beach and the Pacific Ocean at Redondo Beach.

The Motel 6 in Harbor City is part of a typical collection of restaurants and large stores alongside the 110 freeway at the Sepulveda Blvd exit, 5 miles north of Long Beach Harbor. The place is quite small and basic, with exterior corridor rooms on 2 floors, and offers only cable TV, wi-fi and free coffee, but rates are low and the nearby freeway puts many south Los Angeles locations within an easy drive.