Ocean Club Hotel in Cape May

Way to expensive for a place like this. $500+ a night and if you go to the bar they charge you for refills, you pay to use the umbrellas on the beach that they supply. Their restaurant is good but way overpriced. Pool area is very congested and the bar staff is they most unfriendly I have ever scene, and they have no observation skills. You could stand their easily for 15 minutes before they use eye contact. Very disappointed in this place. They have 2 elevators that are so slow your better off humping 5-6 flights of stairs with all the kids! On the positive side the rooms have a nice view and the beds are comfortable but the bathrooms are way to small and need a tub so the floor doesn't get soaked every time someone takes a shower. Lastly the most annoying thing was you have to pay $6 a day to go on the beach. The hotel should include a pass when you're paying these kind of prices. Will not ever rebook unless they were in the 200-300 range.

Penthouse just means top floor don’t let yourself believe it might be fancy. There was only one very narrow and aged elevator. We had to wait for two separate families to descend from our floor before we were able to fit. I saw another reviewer mention how uncomfortable the beds were and that they woke up with neck pains, and honestly none of the four of us slept very well either we kept waking up to fidget with our pillows and adjust our bodies. The private beach had chairs and a single umbrella set up for you but it was so incredibly packed in that you can’t enjoy the sounds of the ocean over all of the conversations around you. If you experience sensory overload this is your warning it’s incredibly loud and overlapping and stressful. We were charged $720 (plus $100 in taxes for Jersey) so we assumed it might be very nice, for a very narrow room with only two chairs to sit in and when someone sat in a chair you could not walk around them so you ask them to stand or clamber over the bed. We couldn’t play the card game we brought because there was no table or open space to gather. It was very difficult to maneuver around the room because of the narrow walk space so if you have any accessibility problems or a bigger body I advise you to reconsider. Room did not come with a fridge for that price in case you thought to bring creamer for your keurig, and bathroom was even smaller. What’s interesting is there wasn’t even a curtain rod to hang your bathing suits or beach towels over, working space was very limited for the price. I don’t advise you hanging things over the balcony either due to the ocean breeze so it ended up in a wet pile on the floor. We only had maybe 3 outlets in the entire room, in a lamp we couldn’t charge unless the light was on, a floor lamp, and I believe one in the bathroom. Distance to the beach was great. Staff working at the hotel were very kind and welcoming. The room itself was a huge detractor from the experience.