Ocean City, Maryland Might Not Be the Vacation You Expect

When I visited Ocean City, MD I was expecting a family oriented place with fun in the sun and volleyball. When I visited; it wasn't Spring break time; but the atmosphere there was very Spring break-like. There were a lot of suburban looking young people wearing very expensive gangsta hip-hop type clothing. They were wearing expensive clothes and driving BMW's with fancy rims; and bouncing their cars like in music videos. Many were blasting gangsta hip hop music, and overall it gave the impression of a hook up spot.

When my friends and I checked into the hotel the attendant offered that we could change in the hotel changing room. This was the equivalent of a dressing room in a store with flimsy curtain in the front. There was no privacy there and I felt very uncomfortable. The attendant then proceeded to ask the guys in our group why they brought sand to the beach; indicating we-the girls-were the sand. This further solidified our idea that this was merely a hook up spot and wouldn't be a very good place to vacation. Luckily we only planned to stay one day and planned a longer trip next time if we enjoyed it.

We then went along the boardwalk and did enjoy some really good seafood and some cold beers. We enjoyed that some and we also found a boardwalk carnival with rides. We had some fun riding the rides but the carnival closed at 7pm. As the night started to fall; strangers started inviting our group to private houses for parties and things. They were not passing out club fliers; but they were distinctly inviting us to houses. This was a bit weird and uncomfortable and I started to worry about our safety a bit. We were surrounded by young suburban kids that seemed to be very into some of the negative qualities of the hip hop lifestyle fueled by alcohol.

We went into the hotel to get dressed to go out to the clubs at night. We tried watching tv but there were only about 10 regular channels on TV. There were equally as many channels of adult television. These were not pay per view channels; but were right there on the TV for anyone to see. We thought this was tacky. We went out to the night clubs which were packed from floor to ceiling. The music was decent. As we walked to and from the club we were still being invited to house parties. We got the uncomfortable feeling of people on the hunt and not people just having fun at the beach. After we went to the club we went to what we thought would be an easygoing bar that played classic rock and was kind of quiet. We sat there for awhile and became comfortable as the bar seemed to be like that. Then people started stumbling in that were drunk to dangerous levels. A few looked like they had alcohol poisoning. We left pretty early the next day and I don't intend to return. I thought Ocean City was a pretty disappointing place overall.