WASHINGTON — With its iconic boardwalk, family-friendly beaches and vibrant night life scene, Ocean City has become a go-to summer destination for Washingtonians.
Whether it’s your very first time visiting — or just your first time out this year — here’s a quick guide, filled with tips from locals, to help you navigate one of the mid-Atlantic’s most exciting beach towns.
Sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Isle of Wright Bay is Ocean City, Maryland, home to 7,089 residents and 8 million yearly visitors.
Ocean City is best known for its wooden boardwalk, which is lined with shops, restaurants, hotels and a small amusement park. A handful of these boardwalk-based businesses have been operating for 100-plus years.
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Here's a beach tip: Stay home or go to another beach like Hatteras or somewhere down in NC. OC is a cesspool of garbage and indigence. Nothing but cheap thrills and spills for a big buck. Not worth the time to get there, even if it's a 30-minute drive.
ReplyDelete7:50 AMEN!!! Nothing but white trash in OC.
DeleteBeach Tip #2: Don't sit on the benches!
ReplyDeleteThey're liable to start charging by the 15 min block!
7089 residents, 50,000+ owners who cannot vote.
ReplyDeleteDoes the OC Tourism "pot" pay for the DC media to talk nice about OC? Only ask because these fluff stories always happen in May - then when bad stuff happens DC stations are first (besides Joe) to report it!
There are three things locals know: 1) Avoid the Caroline St. comfort station unless you like to be aggressively harassed. 2) Get the heck off the boardwalk after 10 PM unless you like serious intimidation when you are outnumbered by at least 5 to one. 3) Drink? Yes. Drive too? No. Call a cab. Don't ride the bus at night unless you're with thirty bikers or veterans.
ReplyDelete826 you're a regular Thomason Brothers guide. Any tips for vacationing in Salisbury?
ReplyDeletePlease stop the fake news OC is by no means family friendly
ReplyDelete"...Any tips for vacationing in Salisbury?"
ReplyDeleteThings to do...watch turds float by in Wicomico River...guess which hooker on Church Street DOES NOT have an STD...Take bets on how many hours until you see a police car go by...see if you can talk the dealers on Naylor Street into accepting EBT cards...you get the idea.
Right on, 908. Right on! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteAs I sit here reading and posting in my mid-town, bayfront condo (which was for 16 years our vacation home - then seven years ago became our full-time retirement residence), I have to laugh.
ReplyDeleteAre you people telling me that I live in some sort of hell here?
Society changes. Sometimes for the worse - and sometimes for the better.
My wife and I were two of the dirty, despised hippies that to many adults in the 60's felt marked the end of the "family resort" of Ocean City.
Now we're back. Five children later - and 11 grandchildren since - all of which cannot wait 'til it's their turn to come visit us and Ocean City.
We hit the boardwalk, the rides, the games. Assateague, the beach, and the pool.
Does the town have it's problems? Of course it does. Society changes, so all you can do is prepare yourself and adjust.
But I thank God that I am not so old and senile (yet!) to forget that when some of the vacationers around us are less than desirable, that it was me - my wife and I - who were on the other end of that in 1966.
I'll do all the "haters" a favor here and offer one negative thing about Ocean City:
The fencing along the median of Coastal Highway that would force people to crosswalks (even though it's a State project) should've been put at the very top of the priority list, especially mid-town.
Already this season, one young man would be alive today if that would've happened.
Glad you like. We wouldn't live there even if given a condo/townhome for free. We have a waterfront home, pool, several acres of property, horses, very few neighbors, leave keys in our vehicles and the house unlocked at night.
ReplyDelete"Different strokes..."
DeleteMy wife and I were born and raised in South Philly, so we want - and certainly enjoy the peace (such as what you have) but also still need and enjoy the excitement of a city, warts and all.
For six months a year we have the former - six months a year the latter.
Works well for us.
"...for different folks"
[As a side note: It's a different world out there, my friend. I'd be a bit more cautious on the unlocked door. If not for you, then for your loved ones. Then again, this just may be the 'city boy' coming back to me.)
Who can afford Ocean City. Hotels $500 to $1000 during peak season. Restaurants jammed packed,food so so, terrible service. No thank you!
ReplyDeleteSad when you can't afford to drive 40 miles to a so called resort but can hop on a plane to an all inclusive or a cruise ship cheaper than Ocean City.
You're right. Nobody goes to Ocean City anymore. It's too crowded.
DeleteI would much rather go through all the insanity of security at the airport; spend a large percentage of vacation time waiting; traveling; paying outrageous per-day parking fees, then go to a resort (or get on a boat full of screaming kids) and stay exclusively on their all-inclusive property for the duration of the vacation.
That sounds like a vacation I'd really love to take.
Or maybe I'll just go to the beach.
South Philadelphia - that explains a lot.
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