Boardwalk Sand & Surf Inn Oceanfront

Property owners advertise this run down youth hostel as a 4 star hotel and gouge customers for $300+ a night. Rooms do not look like the online photos. Room was shockingly run down. Room smelled horrible- very strong mildew and MJ smell. No towels- website does not state one has to bring their own towels. Beds were hard and lumpy. Bathroom was filthy. Management offered another equally awful room. Management unwilling to give even a partial refund. I emailed the owners a week ago and have not received a response. Do not stay here. Your car is a safer and cleaner place to than this.

We booked the reservation and listed the people staying with us (4 adults...myself and my husband and my parents, oland our 12 year old triplets). We also specified that we had two small dogs with us (a pug and a small mixed breed). We paid a 50% deposit at the time of booking and the reminder email we received the day before checking in, which reflected the balance due as the remaining 50% ($290). We arrived at 4pm on Sunday, July 7th and we're told that the room we booked (3bedroom apartment) was not sanitary and we would need to upgrade to two rooms to accommodate us. This would cost an additional $150. We were not hally about it and saw others entering the room that we thought we booked. It looked like they double booked and then forced us to upgrade. We were also told that the room was not ready. We went to the room and there were people eating inside of it. We were not able to get into the room until 6pm and we were very frustrated as we wanted to spend the hour on the beach since we were only staying for two nights. Upon entering the room we found a disaster. There were melted electrical sockets, beds that have nit been replaced in 50 years, a shower that did not open unless tmypu had someone else there to help lift the door while pulling out. There was hot water and cold water, but no mixing of the two to get a warm shower. The drain in the shower was broken, the entire water supply to the shower shifted 3 inches from side to side. The sink did not drain unless you took put the stopper, the toilet ran all of the time, he TV did not work, the microwave did not work, and the refrigerator only frozen items. There was a lofted bunk bed that no one could use because it shook and moved so much we felt it was unsafe for a child to sleep in. The towels smelled terrible and we had to use our dirty beach towels and use the shower next door. The second room had air-conditioning in one room, but not the other and the sink did not drain at all. The baseboard trim was also falling off and there were bugs squished on the bathroom walls. There was no privacy and the landlord or cleaning staff would enter the unit without warning numerous times. We continually locked the outside door, and they continually entered with a key and without knocking. I was stepping out of the shower and came out to a random man standing in the walkway as I was in my underwear. We complained about all of this and nothing was done. Last night a worker came by and said they needed to add a pet fee. We inquired about all of the broken, unsanitary, and unsafe items in the unit and we're told that the pet fee would be waived. Upon checkout, we were told that a $160 fee for the dogs was added on. This fee was not mentioned at booking, when speaking on the phone with them the day prior to checking or when checking in. Everyone there was smoking on the deck or in their rooms and the stench was horrific for everyone in my party. What was supposed to be $290 remaining balance was turned into $940.05. We are a family of five who traveled four days to share our love of Seaside Heights with our children and their grandparents and had the worst vacation experience of our lives. This is not the family friendly shore we remember coming to (as recently as 2018). What is going in New Jersey and how can there be no standards for licensing rentals?

I DECIDED TO VISIT SPICY'S IN THE EVENING TO SEE IF THE NIGHT LIFE WAS BETTER THAN DAY. TO MY SURPRISE THE ENTERTAINMENT, AS WELL AS THE FOOD WAS GREAT. THE BARTENDER, MARY, WAS PLEASANT AND TOOK MY ORDER IMMEDIATELY. IT WAS BROUGHT TO ME RIGHT AWAY AND WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD. IT WAS TASTY AND MARY KEPT ASKING ME IF I NEEDED ANYTHING. WHAT AN ASSET SHE IS TO THE ESTABLISHMENT! SHE IS INFORMATIVE AS WELL AS A FRIEND TO ANYONE THAT COMES IN. THE ENTERTAINER, BRYAN BREATHES, WAS SCHEDULED TO PLAY. WHAT A TREAT THAT WAS! BRYAN TOOK SO MANY REQUESTS AND PLAYED THEM FOR THE AUDIENCE. HE IS SO ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HIS MUSIC THAT HE MESMERIZES THE AUDIENCE WITH HIS DIFFERENT ARRAY OF SONGS. THE AUDIENCE IS SPELLBOUND WITH THE WAY HE CONVEYS HIS MESSAGES IN HIS SONGS. HE USES DIFFERENT TEMPOS AND LEVELS IN HIS SONGS. ONE WOULD THINK THAT THE MUSIC IS BEING PLAYED BY SEVERAL PEOPLE, BUT IN FACT, IT IS ALL COMING OUT OF BRYAN MOUTH. BRYAN UTILIZES HIS TECHNIQUES WITH THE AUDIENCE AND INVOLVES THEM WHILE HE IS PLAYING. MARY, THE TALENTED BARTENDER, DID A SKIT WITH BRYAN WHILE HE WAS PLAYING. MARY WANTED HIM TO EAT SO WHILE HE IS PLAYING , BRYAN GAVE HIS FOOD ORDER TO MARY. WHAT A UNIQUE WAY TO PLAY. BRYAN CAN DO MULTIPLE TASKS AT THE SAME TIME AND GOES ON WITH HIS MUSICAL TASK AT HAND. BRYAN RECEIVES A LOT OF COMPLEMENTS FROM HIS AUDIENCE. HE IS A NON-STOP ENTERTAINER THAT CONTINUES TO SERVE HIS PUBLIC. HE IS LIKE THE "ENERGIZER BUNNY" THAT CONTINUES TO GIVE HIS PEERS THE UNIQUE SOUNDS OF THE MUSIC WORLD WHICH BRYAN CONTINUES TO PROJECT IN HIS MUSICAL PLANNING FOR THE EVENING. PLEASE VISIT SPICEY'S FOR AN EVENING OF FUN. ENJOY THE MUSICAL TALENTS OF THE ENTERTAINER ALONG WITH MARY WHO PARTICIPATES AT RANDOM WITH BRYAN. KENNETH BOWDEN

I took my chances on this motel because of its location right on the boardwalk. Well was I disappointed! The check in went smoothly, he even let me park there early until the room was ready. The rest went downhill from there. I walked in and the TV was on which I thought was weird. Found out later it was because if I went to use the remote and you couldn't use it to turn it on or off or use the volume buttons. I can only change the channel. There were three beds in my room even though I was traveling solo and Only needed one bed but that's when I knew this was not going to be good. A room with three beds in it and seaside heights reputation only meant that this was a party motel. All the beds were disheveled as though they never changed anything. I inspected the place and found two pieces of chewed gum in two different areas. Half of a spoon with something on it and some other piece of plastic, hair on the floor. Dirt on the floor and plenty of sand on the floor. Oh and also the old hair in the shower which always creeps me out. No I did not complain to the manag er cuz I never liked to complaining about anything and I couldn't imagine even if they moved me to another room that it would be clean either cuz obviously somebody who cleans here doesn't know how to clean. By the way I smells no cleaning agents which is odd cuz I usually do. I left the room to spend my day at the beach. When I got back from dinner about 8:00 p.m. there were tons of people on the porch, both at my hotel and the hotel next door which is also owned by them and we share a parking lot. Everyone was drinking and smoking which I expect a little of this except this went on until 4:00 a.m.. oh also loud cars that sounded like they were drag racing kept flying by. Earlier I was going to complain that the air conditioners were ridiculously loud. However, they may have helped me get the approximately three hours sleep. I managed to get the first night. By 4:00 a.m. I had enough of the partying and the noises and the uncomfortable beds that I left and gave up my second night and forfeited my $120. I just called the hotel to let them know that I left so they can give the room to someone else and why I left and all I got was a OH not we're so sorry that we like to refund you your second night or anything. So once again if you're looking for a place to party with no rules whatsoever or if you're blind and can't see dirt or deaf and can't hear people then this is the place for you. If you are mature and have money to spend anywhere else, I'd suggest doing that.

Terrible! Don’t waste time or money! I’m still recovering from a skin infection from there! Completely dirty! Smells like marijuana. Worker was smoking outside in a car. Gross! & never once came in with new towels or cleaned it was just GROSS!