suggestions for Ocean City in October

[Anonymous]

We are headed to Ocean City with our 5 year old at the end of the month for a weekend away. We are very unfamiliar with Ocean City, and we are looking for some suggestions for favorite places to eat and a few kid-friendly things to do in the off-season.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hide in your condo from the cold and wind and rain?

[Anonymous]

Hooked (and affliated restaurants) and Shark and the Harbor are about the only places I like to eat dinner.

[Anonymous]

There's an outstanding Italian restaurant in the Holiday Inn at 66th Street -- don't remember the name but it would be fine with a 5 year old. Nicer than some of the so-called "family" restaurants. Some restaurants are closed for the season, especially near the boardwalk. For activities, you can park near in the big lot near the inlet and walk the boardwalk. Some things, not a lot, will be open, especially on the weekend. Also at 66th street -- indoor mini golf.

[Anonymous]

OP, do you already have a place to stay? If not check out the Francis Scott Key "resort." Indoor pool and playground.

[Anonymous]

Stay at home and complain on DCurbanmom about how your life sucks.

[Anonymous]

Lombardi's on 92nd St is the perfect pizza/pasta joint, the kind with wooden booths and those stained glass lamps.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the restaurant recommendations--they sound great!

We get that lots of things are closed--and we are totally fine with walking around the boardwalk and beach, even if it is chilly! We have access to a pool. Are there any indoor mini golf places or things like that that might still be open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are headed to Ocean City with our 5 year old at the end of the month for a weekend away. We are very unfamiliar with Ocean City, and we are looking for some suggestions for favorite places to eat and a few kid-friendly things to do in the off-season.

Thanks!

If you're going the week of the 23-25, you could drive up to Rehoboth for part of the day and go to the Sea Witch Festival. https://www.beach-fun.com/sea-witch-halloween-fiddlers-festival.html Very kid friendly.

[Anonymous]

Dress warmly and fly kites on the beach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the restaurant recommendations--they sound great!

We get that lots of things are closed--and we are totally fine with walking around the boardwalk and beach, even if it is chilly! We have access to a pool. Are there any indoor mini golf places or things like that that might still be open?

Old Pro Golf has two indoor mini golf courses - one at about 68th street and another in North Ocean City around 135th street or so. Their website would have the exact addresses. Many of the outdoor courses will still be open on the weekend if the weather is nice.

There is an ice skating rink in the Carousel hotel at 118th street.

There is a great park - Northside Park - on the bayside at 124th street. Huge playground, lots of places to run around or ride a scooter, etc. You can also go crabbing or fishing off of the pier there if it isn't too cold.

[Anonymous]

There is a playground at the Downtown Recreation Complex West (between 3rd and 4th) and another one with a walkway out on the water just north of 125th.
Bayside Skillet, Nantuckets in Fenwick is nice but DO NOT PARK AT/NEAR THE ROYAL FARMS nearby Nantuckets, they have predatory towing (over $200 cash to get your car back) pretty sure the local pols are taking kickbacks from Royal Farms who are just trying to keep their lot clear for customers, and FORMER never-ever-again-you-bastards customers. Wish the owner of Nantuckets would stop dwaddling and buy one of the next door houses, it's not like he can't afford it.