Cape May Beach

One of my favorite places I have ever vacationed. This has become our yearly vacation trip and we just LOVE IT. So beautiful, the beaches are amazingly clean and extremely peaceful. Gets very crowded during peak summer season, but still worth it. We watched Dolphins from the beach, enjoyed the summer sun, and relaxed on the beach. I am always so sad to leave this place. Can’t wait to go back.

Cape May just wasn’t what we expected. Perhaps its because I live and grew up in Hawaii with our beaches and this is all folks in this area have, but I thought this place was very one dimensional and didn’t have any warmth or hospitality to it. Additionally, what is this concept of paying to access the beach? That’s just wrong, a beach is a public asset everyone should enjoy!
My fiancé’s sisters heard from her friends that this was a great place to go, even better than Newport, for a weekend getaway, so we decided to take his mother here for her birthday weekend.
Perhaps we didn’t go to the right places, which seemed kind of odd to us because there wasn’t many places to go or see that was recommended on TripAdisor or Unilocal.The beach was ok, litter was pleantiful, and it was freakishly cold the weekend we went, and we thought there would be some kind of boardwalk but its really a line of shops an hotels a street before the beach.
Congress Hall’s coffee shop and Angelo’s Mussels, were the highlight of our trip. We were so underwhelmed we decided to cut our stay short and move on the next stop of our road trip.
Don’t waste your gas money to go here!

This past weekend I decided to step out of New York City and visit South Jersey. What a great idea it was and I enjoyed every moment of it with my friends. We had a blast exploring the neighborhoods and bumming on the beaches.
Cape May was by far my favorite. Not only the beach was nice, clean, and spacious but the houses here were beautiful to look at. You don’t see murky water, disgusting needles, broken bottles, or even washed up seaweeds unlike some beaches in New York.
Hopefully I will be back before the summer ends.

Nice beach
Short walk from the street
$ 6 a day pass
$ 18 for the week
Sand is clean lifeguards are visible
Umbrella and chair service for a fee
If you are close to Pittsburgh ave there is restaurant service from the Pier house.
Water cam be a bit rough, the first 10 or so feet is full of shells, rocks etc.
No jellyfish and thankfully no sharks.

This beach is $ 6 to get in. Very similar to Ocean city but smaller town and further south. Very attentive life guards on duty. More restrictions in the ocean because of some rocky areas or waves. My fiancé said the waves were more fun here compare to ocean city. I don’t know lol but the sand is a bit whiter, very clean, lots of space, and not crowded here. I had a nice relaxing time.

The cape may beach is the most relaxing in south jersey. It’s not wild like wildwood and doesn’t have all of the people like Avalon and stone harbor. It’s a calm and relaxing spot which even some good surf waves if you head to tresales or the cove.
One thing I will say is Cape May LOVES their piping plovers so they will not comb the beach in designated nesting areas. Be sure to wear shoes because it’s rocky!