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05-16-2019, 04:10 AM #1
hampton beach, nh
doing a few days there for summer vaca....eating recommendations/things to do with wife and 11 year old son? looks like a waterpark nearby. thanks
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05-16-2019, 06:56 AM #2Registered User
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I don't have real details as I've only driven through for work a few times but be sure to bring your bikes. If you or your son have BMX bikes there's a neat indoor park in the area too that is always filled with kids all day long. It's also cool to just tool along the beach road, probably faster than trying to drive places too.
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05-16-2019, 07:12 AM #3Registered User
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05-16-2019, 07:37 AM #4
Surf? Cinnamon rainbows has board rentals and may offer lessons. Hanging at "the wall" is fun for surf, people watching, and biking the boardwalk, but I like Jenness beach just up the road a few minutes for a lazy beach day with the family, As it has a better sandy beach.
Sometimes there's decent music shows in Hampton, but the strip is always such a scene during the summer. Fat Harley bikers, and southern nh dudes with tribal tattoos and their fake bake wives making the big trip to the ocean for the day kinda scene.
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05-16-2019, 07:57 AM #5
Drive to Maine?
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05-16-2019, 07:57 AM #6
The beach itself is really nice, but the crowds are iffy. I think my kids were 12 before they even knew that part of town existed. We don't go there. Although, hanging at the beach will be fun for a kid with the arcades, fried dough and all the other 'carnival' type stuff going on. Everything just North around the corner is a better place to be.
Rye airfield is the skate/bmx park. Water Country is the water park in Portsmouth. We do have a bunch of mtn biking around and Stratham Hill Park has a fun pump track for kids and a super short hike to lookout tower. Rent soft top surf boards from Cinnamon Rainbows and Summer Sessions rents SUP's. There's also a place in Portsmouth that rents SUP's and you can cruise around sagamore creek and the piscataqua river area which is more mellow water than open ocean. Fishing/whale watch boating is available. Isle of Shoals tour out of Portsmouth. It can be hard to keep an 11 yr old entertained on vaca. Hopefully you'll have sun so you can chill at the beach.
Portsmouth is a little port town that people like a lot with good resturants, but it's primarily an adult place and just South is Newburyport MA that is the same deal.
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05-16-2019, 08:05 AM #7
^^^thanks all
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05-16-2019, 08:06 AM #8Funky But Chic
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water's frickin cold is all I got.
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05-16-2019, 08:26 AM #9
Watch out for green flies in July. Actually you won’t have to watch out for them. They’ll find you.
Damn, we're in a tight spot!
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05-16-2019, 08:40 AM #10
I always thought Hampton Beach was filled with folks from Lawrence and Lowell who couldn't afford to make it to the Jersey Shore? Most NH people tend to steer away and head north to Jenness or Wallis which are indeed better beaches for families and are typically less crowded than Hampton in peak summer.
The Casino can bring in some sweet acts, saw one of my all time favorite shows I've been to there (Bela Flek, Jon Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke) on a random summer Tuesday in college. I'd check out the lineup. If you are staying near the strip you are going to be up late most likely anyways so might as well catch a show.Live Free or Die
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05-16-2019, 09:21 AM #12Funky But Chic
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05-16-2019, 09:25 AM #13Live Free or Die
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05-16-2019, 09:29 AM #14Funky But Chic
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Yeah it was pretty great, it was before all the Rob Thomas stuff, he was in a bit of a lull in his career and was trying to make a comeback, like '95 or something. He got after it.
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05-16-2019, 09:34 AM #16
Yep, live in the region, none of us go to Hampton. Wallis and Rye are nice, depending on what you want. Go further north to Wells/York as well.
Next to Wallis is the seacoast science center with a. Playground, also a children's museum in Dover and generally cool stuff happening in Prescott park in Portsmouth NH
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05-16-2019, 09:36 AM #17Registered User
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this thread is a trip down memory lane
thanks guys
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05-16-2019, 09:41 AM #18
Definitely full of Lawrence, Lowell, Charlestown, Manchester and the likes doing laps around the strip in their bitchin' camaro's and harleys.
The Casiono always has a few good shows every summer. DSO back to back ftw. The other venue is Wally's which happens to be the biker bar, but the new'ish owner put a bunch of cash into the stage, sound and lighting system, so they've drawn some good smaller acts in like GLove. Also Blue Ocean in Salisbury has booked a few decent smaller acts recently. The venue is pretty cool as the waves break under the place at high tide.
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05-16-2019, 10:36 AM #20
this place always delivers.......better than a tour guide.
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05-16-2019, 10:42 AM #21
I'm so glad this is a thread. Grew up two towns north (N. Hampton) and can concur with what all is in this thread. The Bill Burr tour is friggin all-time:
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05-16-2019, 10:53 AM #22
Skip doing the actual beach at Hampton if at all possible, it gets really busy and is basically Lawrence/Lowell with sand. Head 4 minutes south and go to Seabrook Beach right over the bridge. Walk through the dunes and you have a semi private (compared to Hampton) beach to yourself. Parking can be tough, but doable. May have to spend $10 to park across Rte 1. Nobody used to bother you if you parked outside the big churches parking lot.
Or like others said, head north to Rye, much more civilized than Hampton. Summer Sessions at Jennes beach rents all kinds of boards and has lessons for the little guy.
Food - forget about food in Hampton, with the exception of Blink’s Fried Dough...do it.
Seabrook -
Tuna Striker Pub, formerly Eastmans, sit on the back deck watch the day fishing trippers come in.
Ceals for fried clams/scallops
Browns for all things seafood, BYOB! Markey’s is right across the street, same type if food, a little more formal and no BYOB. You are either a Markey’s guy or a Browns guy, they don’t mix ....I’m a Browns guy.
Rye -
Petey’s for all things seafood.
Beach Plum for over priced lobster roll and ice cream.
Best food bet it to head to Portsmouth for the evening.
I can go on. Ask any questions.
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05-16-2019, 10:58 AM #23
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05-16-2019, 11:08 AM #24
Did the Howard Johnson's survive the Playland fire? If so, I recommend the fried clams.
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05-16-2019, 11:19 AM #25
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