Delaware Beaches - can I please have the lowdown?

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Anonymous wrote:The beaches are far superior anywhere in OC up to Fenwick (compared to the DE beaches.)

And at that end of OC, the beaches are not nearly as crowded as they are in DE. I am used to going to the beach around 120th St and we went to Bethany to meet with friends this summer. I couldn't believe how narrow the beach was and everyone was on top of one another. It was eye-opening. Another advantage of north OC/Fenwick is that teens can ride the bus from 144th St all the way to the Boardwalk and it runs every few minutes. I believe Delaware has a beach bus as well but the times are much further apart. Ocean City's bus is easy--one way down and one way back with lots of stops in between. And its like $4 all day.

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Anonymous wrote:Rehoboth is more family-oriented and traditionally has an LGBTQ+ presence.

Dewey is drunk singles. 20-somethings piled into group houses.

Lewes and Bethany are pretty dead. Not much town life. No boardwalk.

With what you describe, I'd pick Rehoboth.

Bethany has a boardwalk.

No it has a block.

Bethany is gross. OP do Rehoboth

Rehoboth is trashy.

What’s trash about Rehoboth?

Rehoboth has gone downhill. We went there on a Saturday night last summer. I have not been in about 4-5 years. So crowded and the type of people there was resembling more like the OC crowd. I was shocked by the change.

Kind of true but so has OC. It’s much worse. New houses are going for $4-5m in Rehoboth and weekly rentals for $6-7k for a condo. A house for a week would be in the $12-$16k range.

Are you serious?

My God this area is gotten overrated.

You CAN rent a house in Rehoboth for 12-16k per week, especially if you must have ocean block that can sleep 25 people. The house we rent goes for about 4.5k per week, sleeps 10, and is about a 12 minute walk from the beach (an easy walk, still on the beach side of Route 1). FYI, my older child went to OC a couple times with a friend and thinks Rehoboth is way better.

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Anonymous wrote:Rehoboth is more family-oriented and traditionally has an LGBTQ+ presence.

Dewey is drunk singles. 20-somethings piled into group houses.

Lewes and Bethany are pretty dead. Not much town life. No boardwalk.

With what you describe, I'd pick Rehoboth.

Bethany has a boardwalk.

No it has a block.

Bethany is gross. OP do Rehoboth

Rehoboth is trashy.

What’s trash about Rehoboth?

Rehoboth has gone downhill. We went there on a Saturday night last summer. I have not been in about 4-5 years. So crowded and the type of people there was resembling more like the OC crowd. I was shocked by the change.

Kind of true but so has OC. It’s much worse. New houses are going for $4-5m in Rehoboth and weekly rentals for $6-7k for a condo. A house for a week would be in the $12-$16k range.

Are you serious?

My God this area is gotten overrated.

You CAN rent a house in Rehoboth for 12-16k per week, especially if you must have ocean block that can sleep 25 people. The house we rent goes for about 4.5k per week, sleeps 10, and is about a 12 minute walk from the beach (an easy walk, still on the beach side of Route 1). FYI, my older child went to OC a couple times with a friend and thinks Rehoboth is way better.

If I'm going to the beach, I want to be at the beach, not a 12 minute walk through the pine forest with chairs and umbrellas, towels, sand toys and food and drinks for the day. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Rehoboth is more family-oriented and traditionally has an LGBTQ+ presence.

Dewey is drunk singles. 20-somethings piled into group houses.

Lewes and Bethany are pretty dead. Not much town life. No boardwalk.

With what you describe, I'd pick Rehoboth.

Bethany has a boardwalk.

No it has a block.

Bethany is gross. OP do Rehoboth

Rehoboth is trashy.

What’s trash about Rehoboth?

Rehoboth has gone downhill. We went there on a Saturday night last summer. I have not been in about 4-5 years. So crowded and the type of people there was resembling more like the OC crowd. I was shocked by the change.

Kind of true but so has OC. It’s much worse. New houses are going for $4-5m in Rehoboth and weekly rentals for $6-7k for a condo. A house for a week would be in the $12-$16k range.

Are you serious?

My God this area is gotten overrated.

You CAN rent a house in Rehoboth for 12-16k per week, especially if you must have ocean block that can sleep 25 people. The house we rent goes for about 4.5k per week, sleeps 10, and is about a 12 minute walk from the beach (an easy walk, still on the beach side of Route 1). FYI, my older child went to OC a couple times with a friend and thinks Rehoboth is way better.

If I'm going to the beach, I want to be at the beach, not a 12 minute walk through the pine forest with chairs and umbrellas, towels, sand toys and food and drinks for the day. No thanks.

Enjoy sitting in traffic or in your car for many more hours for your perfect destination. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you want to vacation? a week in the summer?

I agree Rehoboth is probably the best bet given what you've described.

Personally, I like the northern parts of ocean City. We used to stay around 120th street.

But my very favorite place to stay is Chincoteague - small town, beautiful sunrises and sunsets on the water, you do have to drive to the beach but it's a beautiful wild beach (though there's a lot going on with the beaches and moving the parking lots). It's further, but I love it best.

But where can you stay in CHincoteague?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you want to vacation? a week in the summer?

I agree Rehoboth is probably the best bet given what you've described.

Personally, I like the northern parts of ocean City. We used to stay around 120th street.

But my very favorite place to stay is Chincoteague - small town, beautiful sunrises and sunsets on the water, you do have to drive to the beach but it's a beautiful wild beach (though there's a lot going on with the beaches and moving the parking lots). It's further, but I love it best.

But where can you stay in CHincoteague?

With the biting flies.

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Anonymous wrote:Rehoboth is more family-oriented and traditionally has an LGBTQ+ presence.

Dewey is drunk singles. 20-somethings piled into group houses.

Lewes and Bethany are pretty dead. Not much town life. No boardwalk.

With what you describe, I'd pick Rehoboth.

Bethany has a boardwalk.

No it has a block.

Bethany is gross. OP do Rehoboth

Rehoboth is trashy.

What’s trash about Rehoboth?

Rehoboth has gone downhill. We went there on a Saturday night last summer. I have not been in about 4-5 years. So crowded and the type of people there was resembling more like the OC crowd. I was shocked by the change.

Kind of true but so has OC. It’s much worse. New houses are going for $4-5m in Rehoboth and weekly rentals for $6-7k for a condo. A house for a week would be in the $12-$16k range.

Are you serious?

My God this area is gotten overrated.

You CAN rent a house in Rehoboth for 12-16k per week, especially if you must have ocean block that can sleep 25 people. The house we rent goes for about 4.5k per week, sleeps 10, and is about a 12 minute walk from the beach (an easy walk, still on the beach side of Route 1). FYI, my older child went to OC a couple times with a friend and thinks Rehoboth is way better.

If I'm going to the beach, I want to be at the beach, not a 12 minute walk through the pine forest with chairs and umbrellas, towels, sand toys and food and drinks for the day. No thanks.

Enjoy sitting in traffic or in your car for many more hours for your perfect destination. It is what it is.

I don't enjoy the drive there, but once I get there, I park my car, and it doesn't move. Traffic on Rt 1 is horrific. You could not pay me to go dow 95 to OBX though.

[Anonymous]

How about Cape May as an alternative? What’s the story there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: If I'm going to the beach, I want to be at the beach, not a 12 minute walk through the pine forest with chairs and umbrellas, towels, sand toys and food and drinks for the day. No thanks.

It's negotiable.

What's not negotiable is representing a house 10 minutes from a beach as a "beach house". That's a false representation.

Enjoy sitting in traffic or in your car for many more hours for your perfect destination. It is what it is.

The difference between the Rehoboth house 12 minutes from the beach, and a Rehoboth house on the beach, is "hours" of traffic?

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Anonymous wrote:Rehoboth is more family-oriented and traditionally has an LGBTQ+ presence.

Dewey is drunk singles. 20-somethings piled into group houses.

Lewes and Bethany are pretty dead. Not much town life. No boardwalk.

With what you describe, I'd pick Rehoboth.

Bethany has a boardwalk.

No it has a block.

Bethany is gross. OP do Rehoboth

Rehoboth is trashy.

What’s trash about Rehoboth?

Rehoboth has gone downhill. We went there on a Saturday night last summer. I have not been in about 4-5 years. So crowded and the type of people there was resembling more like the OC crowd. I was shocked by the change.

Kind of true but so has OC. It’s much worse. New houses are going for $4-5m in Rehoboth and weekly rentals for $6-7k for a condo. A house for a week would be in the $12-$16k range.

Are you serious?

My God this area is gotten overrated.

You CAN rent a house in Rehoboth for 12-16k per week, especially if you must have ocean block that can sleep 25 people. The house we rent goes for about 4.5k per week, sleeps 10, and is about a 12 minute walk from the beach (an easy walk, still on the beach side of Route 1). FYI, my older child went to OC a couple times with a friend and thinks Rehoboth is way better.

If I'm going to the beach, I want to be at the beach, not a 12 minute walk through the pine forest with chairs and umbrellas, towels, sand toys and food and drinks for the day. No thanks.

Pine forest? We walk on sidewalks, and I guess since our kids are older teens, we don't really need all of those "things" for the beach, and we're all capable of walking 5 blocks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The beaches are far superior anywhere in OC up to Fenwick (compared to the DE beaches.)

Fenwick is DE.

[Anonymous]

New poster here. I know the OP has older children, but where would you go if you have young children? Our kids will be 2 and 4 next summer. I have fond memories of going to Bethany as a child in the ‘90s, but sounds like it’s not the same vibe anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:New poster here. I know the OP has older children, but where would you go if you have young children? Our kids will be 2 and 4 next summer. I have fond memories of going to Bethany as a child in the ‘90s, but sounds like it’s not the same vibe anymore?

My parents have had a home there since the 80s. It has changed a lot over the years due to development, and it's not the sleepy beach town it used to be. It's still very family friendly and the restaurants are still mostly bad, but it's more crowded and the development goes pretty far back out on rt 26.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster here. I know the OP has older children, but where would you go if you have young children? Our kids will be 2 and 4 next summer. I have fond memories of going to Bethany as a child in the ‘90s, but sounds like it’s not the same vibe anymore?

+1, would love recs too. Really don’t want to do the drive up to New England or down to the Carolinas.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster here. I know the OP has older children, but where would you go if you have young children? Our kids will be 2 and 4 next summer. I have fond memories of going to Bethany as a child in the ‘90s, but sounds like it’s not the same vibe anymore?

+1, would love recs too. Really don’t want to do the drive up to New England or down to the Carolinas.

Rehoboth or Lewes is great for young children. Funland is perfect for a fun night and Lewes is great because the beaches are on the bay side so no waves to worry about and easy to play in sand, walk into the water, etc. Lots of ice cream, mini golf, and outdoor spaces to enjoy. The downtown Lewes area has a playground at the canal, and there is a great big playground in Rehoboth as well. When my kids were young, we rented in Rehoboth but drove into Lewes and would spend most days in Lewes and then nights in Rehoboth. Bethany is pretty boring for young kids--- beach (crowded, not a lot of sand left anymore), a few ice cream shops and a few mini golf spots. Ok for a day or two but would get pretty bored if craving more than just sitting on a beach.