There are four counties which touch the Jersey Shore, Cape May County, Atlantic County, Ocean County, and Monmouth County. I was born in Atlantic County and raised in Cape May County, and am not very familiar with Ocean County or Monmouth County. This thread will therefore focus on the Cape May County and Atlantic County Jersey Shore towns. Any information on Ocean County or Monmouth County would be greatly appreciated.
Cape May:
Cape may is obviously in Cape May County. I am starting with Cape May because it is the southernmost of all Jersey Shore Towns. The words "newlyweds and nearly deads" adequately describe Cape May. It is not at all unusual to see oxygen tanks attached to people who are sitting in a bar. This is probably the worst Jersey Shore town for gaming women. That being said, it may be worthwhile to spend a day in and check out some of the victorian architecture. Lodging is expensive and mostly consists of bed and breakfasts and expensive weekly or monthly rental properties. The one upside that this community has is that there are many Eastern European girls who are exchange workers. The Fudge Kitchen on Washington Street employs many of them. If you are in Cape May, you definitely want to walk into the Fudge Kitchen and chat up some of the girls working there. There are really only two decent bars in Cape May, The Ugly Mug and Carney's. The Ugly Mug is a restaurant which has a tavern feel. It serves up pretty good food and you will be able to meet some Eastern European girls and other international girls. Carney's is more of a typical Jersey Shore place. When I say typical Jersey Shore place I mean it is an exact cross between a nightclub and a dive bar. It draws more or an American crowd. Ratios in Cape May are horrible compared to other Jersey Shore towns. More women than men visit the Jersey Shore. A Jersey Shore sausagefest is a 50/50 ratio. If there are more men than women in a particular venue, you need to get out of that place as fast as you can. I am not a big fan of Cape May Restaurants. Jersey Shore Restuarants tend to either concentrate on Italian food, seafood, or both. The only restaurant in Cape May I would recommend going to is the Lobster House. This place does a huge volume. At one point, it was the second highest grossing restaurant in the United States after Anthony's Pier 4 in Boston. I spent two summers working there when I was in college. There is a huge dining room with a bar near the entrance to the dining room. There is outdoor seating on the dock, which does not have waitress service. You have to go either to the raw bar or to the takeout window, order your food, and bring it to your table. The quality of the food is very good. You can surf in Cape May on Stockton Avenue during the day. If you want to surf, I recommend you paddle out after 6:00 P.M., that way the beach is already closed, you can surf on any street you want, there are generally better waves, and there are usually no swimmers in the way. I strongly recommend not spending your entire time at the Jersey Shore in Cape May. It may be worthwhile to stop by during the day or to go to the Ugly Mug or Carney's at nighttime. Avoiding the place entirely would not be a bad idea.
Wildwood:
The next Jersey Shore town north of Cape May is Wildwood. The term Wildwood is often used to describe three separate communities, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, and North Wildwood. This is where I grew up. From the 1950's to the late 1990's this was THE PLACE to find decent looking slutty women in the United States. Sadly, multiple factors have led to its decline, but it is still worth visiting and I recommend visiting for at least a few days. Wildwood Crest is the southernmost municipality in the Wildwoods. It is a dry community. Carini's Pizza has the best pasta I have ever had and you should definitely check it out. Other than that and possibly daygaming on the Wildwood Crest beach itself, there is not much reason to spend a great deal of time in Wildwood Crest. You can surf on Rambler Road during the day. Directly north of Wildwood Crest is Wildwood. Until just a few years ago Wildwood's nightlife was legendary. The Fairview Cafe was known as a meat market for the better half of a decade. Unfortunately, in the late 90's, the bar closing time in Wildwood was pushed back to 3:00 A.M., when it previously had been 5:00 A.M. This gradually caused people to seek out nightlife in other towns. Some incarnation of the Fairview may exist today, but it can't be too good. Across the street from the Fairview is the Shamrock. This place is very popular on Thursday nights. Friday and Saturday nights are also somewhat popular, but those nights tend to draw an older crowd. The Cape May crowd who was able to stay alive all week tends to gravitate to the place on weekends. I recommend that you go to the Shamrock early (read 10:00 P.M.) and if the place does not look good, head to the places in Anglesea which I will be mentioning later. La Piazza Cucina and Alfe's are both solid Italian restaurants in Wildwood, although I prefer Alfe's. Try the roast beef sandwick at Snow White at Lincoln Avenue and the boardwalk. It is basically a prime rib sandwich on an italian roll. You will either love it or hate it. There is no surfing beach in Wildwood. North Wildwood is the next town North of Wildwood. Its nightlife is centered in an area known as Anglesea Beach Colony, commonly referred to as "Anglesea" or "The Colony." The bars there are very close together and it is easy to tell where the crowd is going any particular night. Keenan's is good on Thursdays. It is a good place to head if the Shamrock is quiet on a particular night. Another place which was called "Jimmy's" for years is now called the Beach Club I believe and is always dependable on Friday and Saturday nights. The interior is an exact copy of the Fairview except it is more spacious. Westy's is another option. If you stay in either Wildwood or North Wildwood and hang around the bars in Anglesea, you should do well. You will need to take a taxi from Wildwood to Anglesea and even from much of North Wildwood to Anglesea. Taxis cannot simply be found on the street. You need to go online and call a taxi. They sometimes do not like to go to places which are too far away. Sam's Pizza on the North Wildwood boardwalk has some of the best pizza anywhere. Daygame on the beach itself is much better in North Wildwood and even in Wildwood Crest than in Wildwood. The beaches in those two towns are much more used than those in Wildwood. All three of these towns have some of the widest and best beaches I have ever seen.
Stone Harbor and Avalon:
I put these two towns together because they are basically extensions of the same place. This is the wealthy part of the Jersey Shore. I also believe these towns have the most attractive women. The bitch shields are unfortunately higher than they are in other Jersey Shore towns such as Wildwood and Atlantic City. I highly recommend stopping by these two towns. My favorite nightlife venue on this part of the coast is in Avalon and is called the Princeton. This place is busy every night of the summer. On Friday and Saturday nights they open the Rock Room to accomodate more people. A family member of a friend of mine owns the place and I used to spend a lot of time there and used to stay in the apartment above the place. The girls would assume I owned the place because nobody ever saw me paying for a drink. That helped me out greatly. The downside of this place aside from the bitch shields I mentioned before is that it closes extremely early (2:00 A.M.). A good strategy would be if you don't pull by the time the place closes, head up to Atlantic City which is no more than a half hour away and has very favorable closing times. Stone Harbor has a few bars with the same horrible closing time. They are almost all concentrated on 96th Street. One of them is Fred's Tavern. I have never been to any of those places because I like the Princeton. They may be places to check out in the event the there is an off night at the Princeton.
Sea Isle City:
This is the next town north of Avalon and is located on a separate island. While it is not a dry community, it has some pretty strick liquor laws and many of the restaurants are BYOB. A restuarant I like there is Marie's Lobster House. The place has very good seafood and usually has many decent looking waitresses. I am not very familiar with the nighlife in Sea Isle. I would recommend going to eat at Marie's and asking a waitress about nightlife options and maybe meeting up with her later. With Wildwood, Atlantic City, and Avalon close by I never thought about going out in Sea Isle, but it is always good to check out new venues.
Ocean City:
Like Wildwood Crest, Ocean City is a dry community. Its beach is used by many people, making the beach itself decent for daygame. Surfing is allowed on 7th Street. Other than for daygame, there is not much reason to spend a lot of time there.
Longport/Margate/Ventnor:
These are known as the Downbeach towns. They are located on the same island as Atlantic City, which is known as Absecon Island. The beaches are used more than Atlantic City's beach making them better for daygame. Longport is an extremely small town composed mostly of residences. Margate has a policy against weekly rentals. There are no motels there and people staying there must either own property or rent property for an entire summer. If you do not have family or friends who own or rent a home in Margate, you will not be staying there. Maynard's is a popular bar in Margate. These towns are mostly overshadowed by Atlantic City but you should definately stop by and get to know them.
Atlantic City:
This town is always a good bet. Daygame on the beach itself is probably a waste. That can be done on the beaches of Margate and Ventnor which are close enough to Atlantic City. The casinos which draw the hottest women are Borgata and Revel. Revel just opened a few months ago. Your only real options for daygame in Atlantic City are in the casinos themselves at Borgata and Atlantic City. You should probably just head to downbeach or even to some of the aforementioned beaches for daygame. The pool at Harrah's is a very popular nightclub, as is Mixx in the Borgata. I was at Mixx a few months ago when I went to Atlantic City to see a guy a grew up with box. That same night, there was a Jay Z concert in Boardwalk Hall. I don't know what it was, but the Jay Z concert filled the town with some of the ugliest women I have ever seen. I guess Jay Z fans are grenades. Who knew? Somehow they all found their way to Borgata and Mixx. I still recommend going to Borgata and Mixx. It is my understanding that that grenadefest was very uncaracteristic of the place. A few years back Tropicana underwent a huge renovation where they put in bunch of bars and clubs. Cuba Libre is in the Tropicana is the only latin club at the Jersey Shore. It has a really small dance floor and I have had very mixed results there, but it is worth checking out. Atlantic City and New Jersey in general are not particularly great places for strip clubs. Bare Exposure is the place where guys I went to school with go when they get drunk. I was in there the last time I went to Atlantic City and started chatting up a girl from Mexico City. She seemed completely DTF. Five minutes before the place closed, some shoobie (person visiting the Jersey Shore) asked me for permission to take her for a lap dance. I of course said yes. It was baffling to be why the guy would be seeking a lap dance and not simply try to get her number. In any event, the place closed while she was still in the VIP with that guy and they asked me to leave the place because it was closing time. I did not have a chance to get her number and didn't feel like waiting outside for her to walk out. Another strip club is Volcanic Eruptions, about twenty minutes outside of town on Route 40. Neither of these two strip clubs is excellent, but they are the places I go to when I am in the area. I am not really impressed with restaurants in Atlantic City proper. They seem to be either substandard buffets or pizza places which serve worse pizza than is found in other Jersey Shore towns. A good choice for seafood is the Crab Trap, which is in Somers Point, about twenty minutes outside of town. The shore sampler appetizer is legendary. You really can't go wrong with any entree there. Just avoid the shrimp scampi. I made that mistake once. The Library III is really good for prime rib and steaks. It is fifteen to twenty minutes outside of town on route 40, close to Volcanic Eruptions. Even further west of Atlantic City off Route 40 is Esposito's Maplewood in Vineland. It rivals Carini's for the best pasta I have ever had. The place is way off the beaten path, but is more than worth the trip.
General Comments:
[/b]If you live outside the New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C. area, you can get to Cape May County and Atlantic County by flying into either Philadelphia or Atlantic City Airport. Atlantic City Airport is obviously closer, but is far worse, can be more expensive, and has far fewer flights arriving and departing from it. Philadelphia airport is generally a better bet. It is probably less than an hour from Atlantic City airport. Who really cares about an hour drive?
Beach tags are necessary in some Jersey Shore towns, but not others. They are needed in Cape May Stone Harbor, Avalon, and I believe Ocean City. They are not needed in any of the Wildwoods or in Atlantic City.
The height of the Jersey Shore season is the last two weeks in July and the first two weeks in August. Labor Day is generally pretty quiet. There are some things going on in September such as the Irish Festival in Anglesea in late September (highly recommended). Atlantic City has something going on pretty much all year.
I apologize for the format in which this Datasheet is written, but I am completely new at this, so I appreciate your patience.
Cape May:
Cape may is obviously in Cape May County. I am starting with Cape May because it is the southernmost of all Jersey Shore Towns. The words "newlyweds and nearly deads" adequately describe Cape May. It is not at all unusual to see oxygen tanks attached to people who are sitting in a bar. This is probably the worst Jersey Shore town for gaming women. That being said, it may be worthwhile to spend a day in and check out some of the victorian architecture. Lodging is expensive and mostly consists of bed and breakfasts and expensive weekly or monthly rental properties. The one upside that this community has is that there are many Eastern European girls who are exchange workers. The Fudge Kitchen on Washington Street employs many of them. If you are in Cape May, you definitely want to walk into the Fudge Kitchen and chat up some of the girls working there. There are really only two decent bars in Cape May, The Ugly Mug and Carney's. The Ugly Mug is a restaurant which has a tavern feel. It serves up pretty good food and you will be able to meet some Eastern European girls and other international girls. Carney's is more of a typical Jersey Shore place. When I say typical Jersey Shore place I mean it is an exact cross between a nightclub and a dive bar. It draws more or an American crowd. Ratios in Cape May are horrible compared to other Jersey Shore towns. More women than men visit the Jersey Shore. A Jersey Shore sausagefest is a 50/50 ratio. If there are more men than women in a particular venue, you need to get out of that place as fast as you can. I am not a big fan of Cape May Restaurants. Jersey Shore Restuarants tend to either concentrate on Italian food, seafood, or both. The only restaurant in Cape May I would recommend going to is the Lobster House. This place does a huge volume. At one point, it was the second highest grossing restaurant in the United States after Anthony's Pier 4 in Boston. I spent two summers working there when I was in college. There is a huge dining room with a bar near the entrance to the dining room. There is outdoor seating on the dock, which does not have waitress service. You have to go either to the raw bar or to the takeout window, order your food, and bring it to your table. The quality of the food is very good. You can surf in Cape May on Stockton Avenue during the day. If you want to surf, I recommend you paddle out after 6:00 P.M., that way the beach is already closed, you can surf on any street you want, there are generally better waves, and there are usually no swimmers in the way. I strongly recommend not spending your entire time at the Jersey Shore in Cape May. It may be worthwhile to stop by during the day or to go to the Ugly Mug or Carney's at nighttime. Avoiding the place entirely would not be a bad idea.
Wildwood:
The next Jersey Shore town north of Cape May is Wildwood. The term Wildwood is often used to describe three separate communities, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, and North Wildwood. This is where I grew up. From the 1950's to the late 1990's this was THE PLACE to find decent looking slutty women in the United States. Sadly, multiple factors have led to its decline, but it is still worth visiting and I recommend visiting for at least a few days. Wildwood Crest is the southernmost municipality in the Wildwoods. It is a dry community. Carini's Pizza has the best pasta I have ever had and you should definitely check it out. Other than that and possibly daygaming on the Wildwood Crest beach itself, there is not much reason to spend a great deal of time in Wildwood Crest. You can surf on Rambler Road during the day. Directly north of Wildwood Crest is Wildwood. Until just a few years ago Wildwood's nightlife was legendary. The Fairview Cafe was known as a meat market for the better half of a decade. Unfortunately, in the late 90's, the bar closing time in Wildwood was pushed back to 3:00 A.M., when it previously had been 5:00 A.M. This gradually caused people to seek out nightlife in other towns. Some incarnation of the Fairview may exist today, but it can't be too good. Across the street from the Fairview is the Shamrock. This place is very popular on Thursday nights. Friday and Saturday nights are also somewhat popular, but those nights tend to draw an older crowd. The Cape May crowd who was able to stay alive all week tends to gravitate to the place on weekends. I recommend that you go to the Shamrock early (read 10:00 P.M.) and if the place does not look good, head to the places in Anglesea which I will be mentioning later. La Piazza Cucina and Alfe's are both solid Italian restaurants in Wildwood, although I prefer Alfe's. Try the roast beef sandwick at Snow White at Lincoln Avenue and the boardwalk. It is basically a prime rib sandwich on an italian roll. You will either love it or hate it. There is no surfing beach in Wildwood. North Wildwood is the next town North of Wildwood. Its nightlife is centered in an area known as Anglesea Beach Colony, commonly referred to as "Anglesea" or "The Colony." The bars there are very close together and it is easy to tell where the crowd is going any particular night. Keenan's is good on Thursdays. It is a good place to head if the Shamrock is quiet on a particular night. Another place which was called "Jimmy's" for years is now called the Beach Club I believe and is always dependable on Friday and Saturday nights. The interior is an exact copy of the Fairview except it is more spacious. Westy's is another option. If you stay in either Wildwood or North Wildwood and hang around the bars in Anglesea, you should do well. You will need to take a taxi from Wildwood to Anglesea and even from much of North Wildwood to Anglesea. Taxis cannot simply be found on the street. You need to go online and call a taxi. They sometimes do not like to go to places which are too far away. Sam's Pizza on the North Wildwood boardwalk has some of the best pizza anywhere. Daygame on the beach itself is much better in North Wildwood and even in Wildwood Crest than in Wildwood. The beaches in those two towns are much more used than those in Wildwood. All three of these towns have some of the widest and best beaches I have ever seen.
Stone Harbor and Avalon:
I put these two towns together because they are basically extensions of the same place. This is the wealthy part of the Jersey Shore. I also believe these towns have the most attractive women. The bitch shields are unfortunately higher than they are in other Jersey Shore towns such as Wildwood and Atlantic City. I highly recommend stopping by these two towns. My favorite nightlife venue on this part of the coast is in Avalon and is called the Princeton. This place is busy every night of the summer. On Friday and Saturday nights they open the Rock Room to accomodate more people. A family member of a friend of mine owns the place and I used to spend a lot of time there and used to stay in the apartment above the place. The girls would assume I owned the place because nobody ever saw me paying for a drink. That helped me out greatly. The downside of this place aside from the bitch shields I mentioned before is that it closes extremely early (2:00 A.M.). A good strategy would be if you don't pull by the time the place closes, head up to Atlantic City which is no more than a half hour away and has very favorable closing times. Stone Harbor has a few bars with the same horrible closing time. They are almost all concentrated on 96th Street. One of them is Fred's Tavern. I have never been to any of those places because I like the Princeton. They may be places to check out in the event the there is an off night at the Princeton.
Sea Isle City:
This is the next town north of Avalon and is located on a separate island. While it is not a dry community, it has some pretty strick liquor laws and many of the restaurants are BYOB. A restuarant I like there is Marie's Lobster House. The place has very good seafood and usually has many decent looking waitresses. I am not very familiar with the nighlife in Sea Isle. I would recommend going to eat at Marie's and asking a waitress about nightlife options and maybe meeting up with her later. With Wildwood, Atlantic City, and Avalon close by I never thought about going out in Sea Isle, but it is always good to check out new venues.
Ocean City:
Like Wildwood Crest, Ocean City is a dry community. Its beach is used by many people, making the beach itself decent for daygame. Surfing is allowed on 7th Street. Other than for daygame, there is not much reason to spend a lot of time there.
Longport/Margate/Ventnor:
These are known as the Downbeach towns. They are located on the same island as Atlantic City, which is known as Absecon Island. The beaches are used more than Atlantic City's beach making them better for daygame. Longport is an extremely small town composed mostly of residences. Margate has a policy against weekly rentals. There are no motels there and people staying there must either own property or rent property for an entire summer. If you do not have family or friends who own or rent a home in Margate, you will not be staying there. Maynard's is a popular bar in Margate. These towns are mostly overshadowed by Atlantic City but you should definately stop by and get to know them.
Atlantic City:
This town is always a good bet. Daygame on the beach itself is probably a waste. That can be done on the beaches of Margate and Ventnor which are close enough to Atlantic City. The casinos which draw the hottest women are Borgata and Revel. Revel just opened a few months ago. Your only real options for daygame in Atlantic City are in the casinos themselves at Borgata and Atlantic City. You should probably just head to downbeach or even to some of the aforementioned beaches for daygame. The pool at Harrah's is a very popular nightclub, as is Mixx in the Borgata. I was at Mixx a few months ago when I went to Atlantic City to see a guy a grew up with box. That same night, there was a Jay Z concert in Boardwalk Hall. I don't know what it was, but the Jay Z concert filled the town with some of the ugliest women I have ever seen. I guess Jay Z fans are grenades. Who knew? Somehow they all found their way to Borgata and Mixx. I still recommend going to Borgata and Mixx. It is my understanding that that grenadefest was very uncaracteristic of the place. A few years back Tropicana underwent a huge renovation where they put in bunch of bars and clubs. Cuba Libre is in the Tropicana is the only latin club at the Jersey Shore. It has a really small dance floor and I have had very mixed results there, but it is worth checking out. Atlantic City and New Jersey in general are not particularly great places for strip clubs. Bare Exposure is the place where guys I went to school with go when they get drunk. I was in there the last time I went to Atlantic City and started chatting up a girl from Mexico City. She seemed completely DTF. Five minutes before the place closed, some shoobie (person visiting the Jersey Shore) asked me for permission to take her for a lap dance. I of course said yes. It was baffling to be why the guy would be seeking a lap dance and not simply try to get her number. In any event, the place closed while she was still in the VIP with that guy and they asked me to leave the place because it was closing time. I did not have a chance to get her number and didn't feel like waiting outside for her to walk out. Another strip club is Volcanic Eruptions, about twenty minutes outside of town on Route 40. Neither of these two strip clubs is excellent, but they are the places I go to when I am in the area. I am not really impressed with restaurants in Atlantic City proper. They seem to be either substandard buffets or pizza places which serve worse pizza than is found in other Jersey Shore towns. A good choice for seafood is the Crab Trap, which is in Somers Point, about twenty minutes outside of town. The shore sampler appetizer is legendary. You really can't go wrong with any entree there. Just avoid the shrimp scampi. I made that mistake once. The Library III is really good for prime rib and steaks. It is fifteen to twenty minutes outside of town on route 40, close to Volcanic Eruptions. Even further west of Atlantic City off Route 40 is Esposito's Maplewood in Vineland. It rivals Carini's for the best pasta I have ever had. The place is way off the beaten path, but is more than worth the trip.
General Comments:
[/b]If you live outside the New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C. area, you can get to Cape May County and Atlantic County by flying into either Philadelphia or Atlantic City Airport. Atlantic City Airport is obviously closer, but is far worse, can be more expensive, and has far fewer flights arriving and departing from it. Philadelphia airport is generally a better bet. It is probably less than an hour from Atlantic City airport. Who really cares about an hour drive?
Beach tags are necessary in some Jersey Shore towns, but not others. They are needed in Cape May Stone Harbor, Avalon, and I believe Ocean City. They are not needed in any of the Wildwoods or in Atlantic City.
The height of the Jersey Shore season is the last two weeks in July and the first two weeks in August. Labor Day is generally pretty quiet. There are some things going on in September such as the Irish Festival in Anglesea in late September (highly recommended). Atlantic City has something going on pretty much all year.
I apologize for the format in which this Datasheet is written, but I am completely new at this, so I appreciate your patience.
