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Is there a boardwalk with rides and games that isn't loaded with trashy people in the country? (1 Viewer)

Beathany  in DE also has a non traditional boardwalk.  It's pretty nice.

Rehoboth still gets my nod over all of them just due to the number of decent/good/very nice restaurants in the actual town...

 
fantasycurse42 said:
Day trip from NYC... Made it there in 75 minutes and home in 70. OC adds an hour to that, probably a little more. Also, being early June, not much shore traffic. 
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From that far away it's tough to justify the extra travel time especially when the traffic starts in earnest. If you can afford a stop over, OC NJ is really, really nice for the kids and I can't recommend the place enough. Two smallish ride parks, lots of shops and food, clean as hell, and pretty much no riff raff after dark (they're all in Somers Point). I don't think there's any hawker Carney games at all either. Keeping the booze out is likely the key to it's charm, but it seems like I hear about a referendum every year to ditch the No Booze thing, so it's probably only a matter of time.

You can likely score a week's rental for ~$1,500 not too far from the Boardwalk.

 
shadyridr said:
I love the beach. Going to Outer Banks this year. I hate the long walk from boardwalk to beach at Wildwood due to the aforementioned lugging #### mentioned above. Ive been to Great Adventure once. Yes Im scared of roller coasters and the like.
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Wait - when are you going to the Outer Banks?  (I'll be there in 7 days.)

 
Maybe it is me but one of the things I love about the NJ shore is there is a town for everyone including towns for the rich and towns for the middle class blue collar folks.  I love it so much more than the exclusivity of the Hamptons and other super high end areas.  

 
Redwes25 said:
Love Cape May but like the more northern towns as drive is so much better from NYC.  
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I mean, it's only like an extra 30-45 from most of those towns. The only thing that drives me nuts is the price, but people pay it, so they can charge it. 

Edit: I'm talking about Stone Harbor, OC, Avalon... Not the Ocean & Monmouth County towns.

 
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Went to Cape May once when my son was 3 and loved the town (even though we didnt stay in a nice hotel because we booked last minute). Have to go back. Only thing that was weird was they served white American cheese on their burgers at every restaurant which I thought was weird.

 
fantasycurse42 said:
I mean, it's only like an extra 30-45 from most of those towns. The only thing that drives me nuts is the price, but people pay it, so they can charge it. 
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3 hours to Cape May and 1 1/2 hours to Spring Lake, Sea Girt, Avon, etc. to my place in Brooklyn is a huge difference when driving back on a Sunday night (those are times without traffic which can make a big difference).   

 
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shadyridr said:
Went to Cape May once when my son was 3 and loved the town (even though we didnt stay in a nice hotel because we booked last minute). Have to go back. Only thing that was weird was they served white American cheese on their burgers at every restaurant which I thought was weird.
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Go back, it is the best family beach destination on Earth.

 
fantasycurse42 said:
I mean, it's only like an extra 30-45 from most of those towns. The only thing that drives me nuts is the price, but people pay it, so they can charge it. 

Edit: I'm talking about Stone Harbor, OC, Avalon... Not the Ocean & Monmouth County towns.
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Definitely not the cheapest vacation (also far from the most expensive, though), but the high price is also what keeps the trash out and makes it such a great place to visit. Pretty easy to compare / contrast what happens when you can get $99 / night crappy hotel rooms on the beach. It's still about half the price of going to Disney for a week, and so much more fun for the adults.

 
simsarge said:
Wife and I are kicking around vacation ideas for the summer and kind of thought about NC. What's the deal with the Outer Banks?
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beautiful beaches, white sand, warm water, quite town, no boardwalk or amusement type places though if thats what you are looking for. Although a brand new water park is opening there this summer if you are into that. Also, where we are staying (Corolla) you kind of have to go with family and rent a house for the week. Not really a thing a small family can do on their own. The beach is amazing though. You can drink on the beach too which you cant do in NJ. The houses are like mansions and have their own private pools so we goto beach in the morning, come back to the house for lunch, and go in the pool in the afternoon, then decide whether you wanna cook yourself or go out to dinner at night. Its amazing.

 
shadyridr said:
beautiful beaches, white sand, warm water, quite town, no boardwalk or amusement type places though if thats what you are looking for. Although a brand new water park is opening there this summer if you are into that. Also, where we are staying (Corolla) you kind of have to go with family and rent a house for the week. Not really a thing a small family can do on their own. The beach is amazing though. You can drink on the beach too which you cant do in NJ. The houses are like mansions and have their own private pools so we goto beach in the morning, come back to the house for lunch, and go in the pool in the afternoon, then decide whether you wanna cook yourself or go out to dinner at night. Its amazing.
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Exactly what we do in Stone Harbor / Avalon every Summer. Split a ridiculous house on the beach with my brother and his family. Much better than doing the hotel thing IMO. Grilling out on the deck overlooking the beach with a beer in hand in the evenings after spending the day at the beach and in the pool.

 
The beach is really huge in Wildwood, but it's an easy walk. Some beaches are big and impossible to walk on (Sandy Hook comes to mind) so it's really a struggle by the time you get to your spot on the beach. But the sand is more packed down in Wildwood, so it's kinda like walking on dirt. Plus there are the long pathways that extend 1/3 to 1/2 way out onto the sand which makes it a lot easier too.

As far as boardwalks, agree that Seaside and Wildwood are trashy. Part of the fun for me going there, kinda makes me feel better about my own life. But Asbury Park is awesome. Not even just the boardwalk necessarily, but the bar and restaurant scene downtown and the bars everywhere plus the boardwalk and beach, makes for a really cool spot IMO.

 
James Daulton said:
OC Maryland will only reaffirm your feelings about the kind of people boardwalks draw.  Was down there for spring break and the number of loud, obnoxious, likely drunk teens, bikers, etc was off the hook.  Here's one fine gal I managed to snap a picture of since was the white trashiest of the white trash I've ever seen.

OC Maryland's Finest
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Yeah I wasn't impressed. OC is the crappy chain restaurant version of a beach town. 

Fenwick Island was by far my favorite spot of the DE & MD beaches.

 
Coeur de Lion said:
Exactly what we do in Stone Harbor / Avalon every Summer. Split a ridiculous house on the beach with my brother and his family. Much better than doing the hotel thing IMO. Grilling out on the deck overlooking the beach with a beer in hand in the evenings after spending the day at the beach and in the pool.
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I will add - we always do at least one day in Ockracoke Island.  It is one of our favorite places to spend a day.

The island is only accessible by ferry boat - for everything.  Deliveries to the island for the business and everything else come by auto-ferry.  So you drive down the main strip south all the way to the launching dock and there will be vacationers, residents, people getting to work and trucks delivering everything that you need to live on the island.  Load up on the ferry and take a 35-45 minute boat ride to the island.

Island is about 18 miles long.  The first 16.5 miles are federally protected beaches that look like mankind has never set foot on.  You can pull your car over and walk up the dunes to the beach to see them and they are something out of a fantasy book.  The amount of living things crawling on the white untouched sand is just amazing.  There is a 90% chance that wherever you step on the sand you are the first one to do it once you get to the beach.  Just a beautiful place.

When you finally get to the main part of the island - the last 1.5 square miles - it is a tiny little town.  You park your car at very tip near the marine welcome center.  It is the location of a British invasion of America during the revolution - there are signs for it all over the place.  You park your car and you can either walk the entire area if you want or, you rent a golf cart to drive around.  The speed limit is 10 MPH for everything that moves.  So you are driving your golf cart with the cars and trucks that are delivering stuff.  There are a bunch of diners/drive ins/dives type places, there are several waterfun rental places, and there are houses and shops that you can check out.  And a lighthouse.

It's pretty perfect.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
I will add - we always do at least one day in Ockracoke Island.  It is one of our favorite places to spend a day.

The island is only accessible by ferry boat - for everything.  Deliveries to the island for the business and everything else come by auto-ferry.  So you drive down the main strip south all the way to the launching dock and there will be vacationers, residents, people getting to work and trucks delivering everything that you need to live on the island.  Load up on the ferry and take a 35-45 minute boat ride to the island.

Island is about 18 miles long.  The first 16.5 miles are federally protected beaches that look like mankind has never set foot on.  You can pull your car over and walk up the dunes to the beach to see them and they are something out of a fantasy book.  The amount of living things crawling on the white untouched sand is just amazing.  There is a 90% chance that wherever you step on the sand you are the first one to do it once you get to the beach.  Just a beautiful place.

When you finally get to the main part of the island - the last 1.5 square miles - it is a tiny little town.  You park your car at very tip near the marine welcome center.  It is the location of a British invasion of America during the revolution - there are signs for it all over the place.  You park your car and you can either walk the entire area if you want or, you rent a golf cart to drive around.  The speed limit is 10 MPH for everything that moves.  So you are driving your golf cart with the cars and trucks that are delivering stuff.  There are a bunch of diners/drive ins/dives type places, there are several waterfun rental places, and there are houses and shops that you can check out.  And a lighthouse.

It's pretty perfect.
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That looks amazing. We'll be in the OBX in August, hopefully I can talk the wife into checking this out.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
I will add - we always do at least one day in Ockracoke Island.  It is one of our favorite places to spend a day.

The island is only accessible by ferry boat - for everything.  Deliveries to the island for the business and everything else come by auto-ferry.  So you drive down the main strip south all the way to the launching dock and there will be vacationers, residents, people getting to work and trucks delivering everything that you need to live on the island.  Load up on the ferry and take a 35-45 minute boat ride to the island.

Island is about 18 miles long.  The first 16.5 miles are federally protected beaches that look like mankind has never set foot on.  You can pull your car over and walk up the dunes to the beach to see them and they are something out of a fantasy book.  The amount of living things crawling on the white untouched sand is just amazing.  There is a 90% chance that wherever you step on the sand you are the first one to do it once you get to the beach.  Just a beautiful place.

When you finally get to the main part of the island - the last 1.5 square miles - it is a tiny little town.  You park your car at very tip near the marine welcome center.  It is the location of a British invasion of America during the revolution - there are signs for it all over the place.  You park your car and you can either walk the entire area if you want or, you rent a golf cart to drive around.  The speed limit is 10 MPH for everything that moves.  So you are driving your golf cart with the cars and trucks that are delivering stuff.  There are a bunch of diners/drive ins/dives type places, there are several waterfun rental places, and there are houses and shops that you can check out.  And a lighthouse.

It's pretty perfect.
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Seems far from Corolla

 
Apple Jack said:
Yeah was going to say Santa Cruz. East coast, not so much.
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As a former local, I wouldn't go near the boardwalk unless it was Mo/Tue night in the summer.  Area was always crawling with MS13's, meth, H.  Can't imagine how bad they are on the east coast if SC is one of the better ones.

 
McGarnicle said:
Yankee23Fan said:
I will add - we always do at least one day in Ockracoke Island.  It is one of our favorite places to spend a day.

The island is only accessible by ferry boat - for everything.  Deliveries to the island for the business and everything else come by auto-ferry.  So you drive down the main strip south all the way to the launching dock and there will be vacationers, residents, people getting to work and trucks delivering everything that you need to live on the island.  Load up on the ferry and take a 35-45 minute boat ride to the island.

Island is about 18 miles long.  The first 16.5 miles are federally protected beaches that look like mankind has never set foot on.  You can pull your car over and walk up the dunes to the beach to see them and they are something out of a fantasy book.  The amount of living things crawling on the white untouched sand is just amazing.  There is a 90% chance that wherever you step on the sand you are the first one to do it once you get to the beach.  Just a beautiful place.

When you finally get to the main part of the island - the last 1.5 square miles - it is a tiny little town.  You park your car at very tip near the marine welcome center.  It is the location of a British invasion of America during the revolution - there are signs for it all over the place.  You park your car and you can either walk the entire area if you want or, you rent a golf cart to drive around.  The speed limit is 10 MPH for everything that moves.  So you are driving your golf cart with the cars and trucks that are delivering stuff.  There are a bunch of diners/drive ins/dives type places, there are several waterfun rental places, and there are houses and shops that you can check out.  And a lighthouse.

It's pretty perfect.
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That looks amazing. We'll be in the OBX in August, hopefully I can talk the wife into checking this out.
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this sounds a little similar to fire island... yankee- any idea if that's true?

 
shadyridr said:
Went to Cape May once when my son was 3 and loved the town (even though we didnt stay in a nice hotel because we booked last minute). Have to go back. Only thing that was weird was they served white American cheese on their burgers at every restaurant which I thought was weird.
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Go to Cape May every year for my wife's birthday in September. Highly recommend Peter Shields Inn.

 
shadyridr said:
Yes Im scared of roller coasters and the like.
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I'm with ya. Went to Disney in December and my girls are getting into wild ride age, but my wife was pregnant at the time so I had to agree to do some. I did the tamest coaster in Magic Kingdom 3x that week, closed my eyes and held on tight every time. Think I slipped a xanax in there as well. The whole time I was thinking "how the #### do people enjoy this?"

 
fantasycurse42 said:
Anyone have one close by? Ocean City (New Jersey, dry town) comes close IMO, but never been to anything else remotely close. 

My boys love the boardwalk, games, rides, etc. but these places are just filled with the trashiest people in society, why does the boardwalk bring this out? 

Why aren't there a lot of normal families in these places?
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If Ocean City NJ only comes close, then if you find one that;s better let me know.

 
Skoo said:
Came in to say Ocean City NJ

Wife and I had our first child in March, can't wait to take him to Wonderland and watch him ride the same kiddie rides I went on as a kid.

Definitely not a trashy boardwalk in my experience, though it's been a few years.
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Its still pretty much the same...Johnson's Popcorn, Mack and Manco's Pizza (although they had an argument and now it's just one name...same quality taste though), Wonderland, Playland, the minature golf courses (ribbit ribbit ribbit) and Polish Water Ice, Shrivers candy,...those are just off the top of my head.

 
In NJ, we usually just stick to a nice family friendly beach and then hit up the carnivals in the nice towns for rides and games.   

 
Steed said:
Asbury is a little better.  Has a spray park for the kids too.  But not by much
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Asbury? Holy ####, things must have changed in the past 20 years. Back in the day, it was a great place to buy crack or heroin, but didn't offer much else. 

 
William Munny said:
Maybe 10-15 years ago. Seaside has gotten more trashy and PP is kind of trashy now, especially at night. 
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That's what makes PP great. Finding punker chicks on the Boardwalk that are not entirely averse to the idea of giving your schvantz a tug in exchange for a couple of pulls of 151. Ahhh, summer nights. 

 
fantasycurse42 said:
I've never done OC in Maryland. Heard very mixed reviews, but in this thread it has been mostly positive.
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If you go to Fenwick Island, DE you can drink copious amounts of keg beer and then decide to stand in Delaware and urinate into OC MD. Just be careful because the cops there don't accept that as a legit reason to relieve yourself in public. Or so I hear. 

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Asbury? Holy ####, things must have changed in the past 20 years. Back in the day, it was a great place to buy crack or heroin, but didn't offer much else. 
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Asbury is so different...you wouldnt recognize it. Back in the day you went to the Pony, FastLane , or The Saint.

Now there are huge bars with huge lines...not complaining or nothin...it's just mind blowing

 
Dope said:
Asbury is so different...you wouldnt recognize it. Back in the day you went to the Pony, FastLane , or The Saint.

Now there are huge bars with huge lines...not complaining or nothin...it's just mind blowing
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Yeah, I practically lived in those exact clubs you named for years - plus, Convention Hall. Never even dreamed of roaming around, though. It was one of the few places in NJ growing up (Newark being another) that I was actually scared to walk around.  Although to be fair, I did see GG Allin at Fastlane and was a little scared that night too. 

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Yeah, I practically lived in those exact clubs you named for years - plus, Convention Hall. Never even dreamed of roaming around, though. It was one of the few places in NJ growing up (Newark being another) that I was actually scared to walk around.  Although to be fair, I did see GG Allin at Fastlane and was a little scared that night too. 
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Id be shocked if we didnt kinda know of each other by sight from being in the same spots and listening to the same stuff...OHHHH youre that dude.

 
Dope said:
Id be shocked if we didnt kinda know of each other by sight from being in the same spots and listening to the same stuff...OHHHH youre that dude.
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It's entirely possible. It's not like metal heads had a ton of places to hang out. :lmao:

You can probably pick me out in the Allin "Terror in America" tour DVD, but I don't know for sure because I refuse to watch it. 

 
fantasycurse42 said:
Anyone have one close by? Ocean City (New Jersey, dry town) comes close IMO, but never been to anything else remotely close. 

My boys love the boardwalk, games, rides, etc. but these places are just filled with the trashiest people in society, why does the boardwalk bring this out? 

Why aren't there a lot of normal families in these places?
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Lot of good "trashy" people. Looks can be decieving

 
OC NJ seems to sterile to me.  I was up running early one AM and where the streets are typically empty in any other resort town, OC NJ streets were flooded with people riding their bikes or otherwise exercising.  Felt very stepford wives'ish.  Did not like.  Plus you can't buy booze in town, that's just unAmerican. 

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Yeah, I practically lived in those exact clubs you named for years - plus, Convention Hall. Never even dreamed of roaming around, though. It was one of the few places in NJ growing up (Newark being another) that I was actually scared to walk around.  Although to be fair, I did see GG Allin at Fastlane and was a little scared that night too. 
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I went there last year, I still wouldn't walk around there. Just a few blocks away from the boardwalk is still pretty ugly. 

 
shadyridr said:
I went there last year, I still wouldn't walk around there. Just a few blocks away from the boardwalk is still pretty ugly. 
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Good to know some things haven't changed. I played at Asbury Park in basketball in junior high. I was 12 years old, 5' 5" and about 110 pounds. The guy I had to guard had a full beard, a KID in the stands with his baby mama, and dunked 3 times in the pre-game layup line. I think he went for about 40 and we lost something like 74-12.

 
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