TravelGoon Kids – Ocean City

What are your favorite things to do in Ocean City, MD
What books or websites do you visit before you go?
What do you not like?
What tips do you have for friends planning to go?

Camille says: “I enjoyed swimming in the waves. I thought the mini-golf courses were pretty cool. I think it is fun to walk down the boardwalk and look at all the shops.”

Chloe says: “I liked going to the amusement park on the pier. I think the beach was nice, and I liked the playgrounds on the beach.”

Here are some tips that came in from a reader via the comments on Park Place Hotel, Ocean City, MD:

• Excellent breakfast and coffee at the Dough Roller restaurant, next door, on the Boardwalk at Third Street, in the Breakers Hotel.
• Other classic Ocean City restaurant choices with affordable prices, within walking distance:
  
  Shenanigan’s Irish Pub & Grille, one block north on the Boardwalk, at Fourth Street
  
  And Melvin’s Steak House, two blocks south, then two blocks west, at Philadelphia Ave. and First Street.
  
  Thrasher’s is a must-do for many Ocean City regulars, as is Dumser’s ice cream and Phillips Crab House.

• For a classic amusement experience, keep walking south of the pier and visit the historic Trimper Rides, with its restored carousel, just off the Boardwalk at South Division Street.

Ocean City Boardwalk