On our trip to DC, we took a few nights to spend at the Beach. We love the Beach. We live within an hour of the beach (on the other side of the country) and take any chance we get to enjoy it! When looking for a new area to live, having a beach within an hour or so is a MAJOR qualification on where to move! It takes forever to get there from my parent’s house though! It takes no time to get through many states on the East Coast (seriously, from their house we start in Maryland, go through Virgina, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania in less than an hour!), but for some reason, it takes 3-4 hours to get to the beach in the same state? Doesn’t make sense!
Anyway, we always enjoy our time at the beach – especially since they have WARM water! We stayed a couple of nights at the Holiday Inn Ocean City. It was right on the beach/boardwalk, but we booked it because they had waterslides, and my kids are all about waterslides!
Our room was large and big enough for all of us! I am always excited when we get a room big enough for all of us! Plus, there was a full kitchen in the room, so we didn’t have to eat out the entire time we were there. Full-size fridge, oven, and stove top. However, the kitchen did show the age of the hotel. Their appliances could use an update/refresh. They all worked fine, just looked old.
Our room overlooked the waterpark/pool area and the beach. It was beautiful. We watched the sunrise over the beach from the comfort of our room. We could easily walk out to the beach, set up, and play for hours. My kids LOVED to Boogie Board. I think they could have done it all day long! There was the outdoor waterpark area, with 2 waterslides, a vortex, shallow play area, and a small lazy river. The waterslide was SUPER fast. Probably one of the fastest waterslides I’ve been on. There are lifeguards, but there is no order to the waterslides, it’s a free for all! There is another outdoor pool, which was quieter with fewer people that my older kids enjoyed more. There is also an indoor pool, but we didn’t make it to that one. It was empty every time we saw it (we could see it from where we got on the elevator), but would be great when the weather isn’t so great! You receive rubberbands to wear to show that you are a guest and can enter the pool area. You also get tokens for pool towels.
They also have changing rooms with showers available. I wish we had known this when we first arrived and our room wasn’t ready. Alas, we did take advantage of them after we checked out! Super nice to change and shower before we headed home (but was after we had to check out of our room!)
If we head back to Ocean City on our next trip to DC, I would have no problem booking a room here again! It was a GREAT way to spend our Free IHG nights that we get each year with our IHG credit card (rooms here go for quite a bit of $$ during the summer!)
