Rehoboth beach- cost and the economy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We still love Rehoboth Beach. If you rent a house for a week, it would come out to be <$1000/night. We went to all-inclusive resort earlier this year and was >$12000 for 6 days. Rehoboth would have been cheaper.

But instead of hanging out for a week care free and catered to, you’re instead spending a huge chunk of your vacation meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, washing dishes, doing laundry, sweeping, making beds, lugging beach gear, etc, while still spending thousands of dollars (and once you factor in food and drink probably paying almost as much if not more than you’d pay for the all inclusive). Sounds like a pretty rotten vacation to me, but to each their own.

Meal planning—done before we leave. I have lists from years past so it isn’t hard to adjust.
Grocery shopping—this is where I splurge and do Instacart. I build the cart ahead of time and click to send my order about half an hour before we check in. By the time we are settled in the house; the food arrives!
Cooking—I cook all the time so I’m good at it and efficient, but really it isn’t complicated stuff. Burgers and corn on the grill, cut a watermelon, precut veggies. Sheet pan dinners. (I bring foil and parchment so I don’t even have to clean the pan). Cereal and yogurt for breakfast. Sandwiches and snacks for lunch. Everyone pitches in and it’s not a big deal. Dishes get washed by the dishwasher and we alternate putting them away.

Totally get that it’s not for you, but it works for some of us!

Please share some of your meal plans!

[Anonymous]

Or just stay in car. Don't laugh but in college we got to Hamptons on weekends.

We take biggest car we own we arrive Saturday morning. Go to beach and happy hour. One beach had a shower changing room we change to go out in, then out to house parties, clubs, dinner, then the after hour bars, the Hamptons Bay Dinner or 4 am munchies, then off to behind Slo Jacks a Fast foot dive with a public bathroom from outside you can go. Quick nap, use bathroom, Then back to beach by six am when opens and go to sleep till 11 am and do it again and drive home.

And we are not alone. That is the problem when hotel prices get too high.

There is also a happy hour Bar that advertises a day in Hamptons. Take LIRR out there grab cab to beach, beach is free you only pay parking, then grab a cab to happy hour, the bar then has drunk shuttle back to train. It is like two hour 15 minutes back to Manhattan and by then everyone sunburned, drunk, exhausted.

But is this what we want DE and MD beaches to become? A place only reach can stay. Nice hotel rooms in the hamptons chatge around $5000 on a three day weekend. Screw that. IF young I rather borrow Dads GMC Yukon or Moms minvan or take train

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's very expensive there we just got back. Not sure it was worth the cost if I'm honest.

We only stay for 5 nights in a hotel now because a house that I’d find acceptable to stay in costs $15k for the week, and I am not willing to pay that for Rehoboth.

Only a $15K house will do??? That's a gigantic, newer, beach block house.

Just split a $5K 3 bedroom house with another family so each set of parents gets a bedroom and kids share the other bedroom and living room. Or rent a hotel Sunday - Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We still love Rehoboth Beach. If you rent a house for a week, it would come out to be <$1000/night. We went to all-inclusive resort earlier this year and was >$12000 for 6 days. Rehoboth would have been cheaper.

But instead of hanging out for a week care free and catered to, you’re instead spending a huge chunk of your vacation meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, washing dishes, doing laundry, sweeping, making beds, lugging beach gear, etc, while still spending thousands of dollars (and once you factor in food and drink probably paying almost as much if not more than you’d pay for the all inclusive). Sounds like a pretty rotten vacation to me, but to each their own.

You never heard of a restaurant?

[Anonymous]

I like the beach and grew up going there but decided it's not worth it to spend thousands of dollars to take the family there for a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Maybe y'all haven't been to Funland yet this year. The carousel is 3 tickets. So if it's a 2 year old and you have to hold them it's 6 tickets. Tickets are 75 cents each so $4.50 a ride. That's a big jump

The carousel is $2.25 per person and you're complaining? Funland is still much less expensive than other places with rides. It's even less expensive if you buy the book of 100 tickets for $55. Then it would be $1.65 per person.

Your complaints don't seem reasonable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not a beach person but going for just a day and driving home greatly lessens the costs.

where do you park?

As I mentioned above, we park at the Rehoboth Park and Ride and take the bus right to the main pavilion. We apply sunscreen, swim, sit on the beach, play with sand, take a walk then clean up and dress. We hit Grotto Pizza for lunch, do some shopping, boardwalk people watch, a round of mini golf, then get ice cream and catch the bus out. Home by 9:30 and we all enjoy the day!

[Anonymous]

we have a place in Rehoboth Beach. If we did not, no way would I spend the nightly fees for the hotels or rental homes. I would go somewhere else… Like Europe.

[Anonymous]

It's like a ghost town at the DE beaches right now you would think there would be good deals to be had but I guess home owners need to get a little more thirsty for the prices to come down but this has been the least amount of vacationers I've ever seen. I think people are holding onto their purse strings a little tighter.

[Anonymous]

Do what my ILs do. Stay in a cheap motel in OC or Fenwick. Spend one evening driving to Louie’s Pizza for a to go order. Park in front of the restaurant in the 20 min parking spot. Wolf down pizza. Drive around Rehoboth and look for free parking - give up and return to Louie’s for sodas. Repeat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's like a ghost town at the DE beaches right now you would think there would be good deals to be had but I guess home owners need to get a little more thirsty for the prices to come down but this has been the least amount of vacationers I've ever seen. I think people are holding onto their purse strings a little tighter.

The weather forecast sucks for this upcoming week and it’s still not peak season with some DMV public school districts still in session through this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Minimum wage is now $15 per hour in DE. Of course, prices must increase to cover the new minimum wages.

How dare they offer a living wage so our tax dollars don’t have to subsidize Funland and other crappy Rehoboth Beach activities and restaurants!

[Anonymous]

We've been going to the beach in SC for the years and the price has held steady. Three bedroom/three bath condo about 10 minutes from the beach (on the golf course) is around $1000 for 5 nights. It's worth driving south for a cheaper vacation. It's probably 4 tanks of gas for us (around $140).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've been going to the beach in SC for the years and the price has held steady. Three bedroom/three bath condo about 10 minutes from the beach (on the golf course) is around $1000 for 5 nights. It's worth driving south for a cheaper vacation. It's probably 4 tanks of gas for us (around $140).

10 minutes from the beach is cheap in Rehoboth too. The problem is that ten minutes from the beach is not much fun - you still have to pack up all your stuff, deal with cranky kids, drive to the beach, find a place to park - it’s a hassle. You need to be within a block or two of the beach - otherwise, what’s the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's like a ghost town at the DE beaches right now you would think there would be good deals to be had but I guess home owners need to get a little more thirsty for the prices to come down but this has been the least amount of vacationers I've ever seen. I think people are holding onto their purse strings a little tighter.

The weather forecast sucks for this upcoming week and it’s still not peak season with some DMV public school districts still in session through this week.

+1 It's always less crowded during weekends that don't have great weather. It doesn't get busy during the week until school gets out. By July, it's packed on any random week day.