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We don't just have Hampton though. We also have Wallis Sands, Jeness, North Hampton, Odiorne and Rye beach which are all nothing like ghetto ass Hampton.
The 10 minute drive north to Jeness is well worth it - great scenic drive and the beach is more or less the antithesis of Hampton.
Hampton Beach is like plenty of other public beaches with boardwalks- no worse than Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, Daytona, etc... . But yes I agree, if a family is looking for a public beach area with all the surrounding amenities, Long Sands & Short Sands (York) and Old Orchard Beach are far better and York in particular doesn't attract the riff-raff. I don't think Hampton Beach is missing the boat on anything- they've done a fabulous job refurbishing the area, including the bath houses in particular. Now a change in colors doesn't mean one can change it's stripes: Hampton Beach still attracts the unsavory types- the obnoxious attention whores such as the ghetto birds- or at least want you to believe they are all ghetto; as well as middle aged beer bellied geezers on over-sized bikes with aftermarket, noisy exhaust systems and distorted sound systems blaring gangsta rap as to try to lamely fit in with the preponderance of teeny-boppers.
I don't get the attraction if one is looking for a family vacation, given that even with its limited coastline NH has wonderful public beaches minutes away to the north; rentals that are cheaper, some kind of food amenities that are walkable at every beach- whether it be the concession stand at Wallis Beach, Beach Plum at North Beach State Park, as well as stores across from Jenness, and the other North Beach ("The Wall").- cheaper parking ( and if you know the in and outs, even FREE parking), as easily accessible (no traffic tie ups) as any sandy public beaches your going to find on the entire Atlantic coastline). Is concession stand food (the same crap you can find at any fair in America), arcades, and tacky souvenir shops really that alluring that they entice parents to decide to vacation at a place like Hampton Beach rather than minutes up the road?
As long as it does, I don't think from a marketing perspective Hampton Beach is doing anything wrong though. Then there are the special events. In fact, the only thing that brings me (and most other local adults) there on great occasion are the likes of the sand castle building competition, volleyball tournaments, weekly fireworks shows, a Kites against Cancer event every May before the bad crowds, and maybe a few others (definitely NOT the Seafood Festival however). It makes me realize a few other meccas along the coastline are missing out and sorely under-utilizing revenue potential and marketing avenues (hello, Misquamicut Beach- another cesspool, but boring as hell also).
We don't just have Hampton though. We also have Wallis Sands, Jeness, North Hampton, Odiorne and Rye beach which are all nothing like ghetto ass Hampton.
Right, and what is wrong with having something for everyone. You needs places for all kinds of people to enjoy.
Tats and loud booming rap goes along with kids now, no way to avoid. It used to be big hair and muscle cars when I was their age. Let them have their fun, everything doesn't have to be sanitized and geared to families.
Unless the crime rate has increased I'm not sure what is so different about it now as many people have good childhood memories of visiting Hampton with their non-ghetto families. We had relatives with a place close by, it was a lot of fun.
The undesirable social and cultural effects of CT and NY tourists negate any benefit derived from their spending, IMO. People from CT and downstate NY are the last people I want visiting northern New England. I'd rather have year round winter than have to deal with those people.
How many people from CT and NY have you ever known? Or had some horrible nasty encounter with? And the idea that all people from CT and NY (or any other state) are all the same, & horrible, is just so...........ridiculous, & prejudiced. But I do see that kind of stuff occasionally on the NH forum; not from most here fortunately.
BTW, I know Hampton Beach well. I don't recall seeing many CT or NY license plates, even in summer.....
Sounds like a bunch of grumpy old folks sitting on their porches telling the kids to get off their lawn. I can go to Hampton and get either veal parm or a chilli dog. I can buy fine jewelry or garish crap. Concerts including free ones, rap or rock.Muscle shirts and beach towels or overpriced clothing, fried dough, arcades..whatever.. bitching bout kids cruising in cars and bikes? What YOU weren't young once??.. comparing it to gonorrhea? Really? How sad. Don't like teenagers..don't go to the beach later than 9:00 am, or go to a sanctioned, sanctified, sanitized old folks beach..or better yet, stay home your depressing attitudes would just bring everyone else down too
I wouldn't even call what Hampton Beach has a board walk. More like a sidewalk with a beach across the street. The beach side of the street IS very nice. It's the other side that's a dump. I never once mentioned the people who go to the beach. My gripe is with the low rent garbage that lines the street. In my original post I clearly stated I love the Casino Ballroom. I am a middle aged guy who surfs, has tattoos, loves his beer, travels with a skateboard and or bike and thinks HB is a dump and missing out on a gold mine. I also am a small business owner as well as working in the financial sector. I want to see places thrive, and I feel like HB is just surviving.
I wouldn't even call what Hampton Beach has a board walk. More like a sidewalk with a beach across the street. The beach side of the street IS very nice. It's the other side that's a dump. I never once mentioned the people who go to the beach. My gripe is with the low rent garbage that lines the street. In my original post I clearly stated I love the Casino Ballroom. I am a middle aged guy who surfs, has tattoos, loves his beer, travels with a skateboard and or bike and thinks HB is a dump and missing out on a gold mine. I also am a small business owner as well as working in the financial sector. I want to see places thrive, and I feel like HB is just surviving.
You are right. We need to push all of that lower-class garbage out to make room for fancy wine sipping lounges, pretentious art galleries, quaint bistros with the latest overpriced gluten-free vegan fad foods, more million-dollar condos that only out of staters can afford, and more boutiques with ridiculously-priced "high-end" merchandise targeted towards 1%-type out of staters. In other words, you want to make Hampton the beach version of what Portsmouth or Newburyport has become.
Maybe Cape Cod has more "cultured" beaches more to your liking. You are striking a nerve among native NH'ites in this thread. Although I myself said I prefer York now that I have a family, you are coming across as a wealthy, upper class out of stater who doesn't like the blue-collar environment of Hampton Beach. Not sure if this is true or not, but that is how your posts are perceived.
I wouldn't even call what Hampton Beach has a board walk. More like a sidewalk with a beach across the street. The beach side of the street IS very nice. It's the other side that's a dump. I never once mentioned the people who go to the beach. My gripe is with the low rent garbage that lines the street. In my original post I clearly stated I love the Casino Ballroom. I am a middle aged guy who surfs, has tattoos, loves his beer, travels with a skateboard and or bike and thinks HB is a dump and missing out on a gold mine. I also am a small business owner as well as working in the financial sector. I want to see places thrive, and I feel like HB is just surviving.
Please explain the low rent garbage. I really don't understand. I have not been to the area for a while except for a couple of shows. Are they stabbing or carjacking people on the boulevard?
Maybe concentrate on your backyard Springfield where that actually does happen. Yuppies always want to claim every bit of coastline like they have a right to it. Maybe just sell it off to the Chinese for condos, because, profit.
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The undesirable social and cultural effects of CT and NY tourists negate any benefit derived from their spending, IMO. People from CT and downstate NY are the last people I want visiting northern New England. I'd rather have year round winter than have to deal with those people.
