Mediocre rooms with subpar bathrooms (we found a 3 inch bug and cobwebs in ours!).

One positive is that the in-room air conditioners are loud but definitely work well, and ours was cranked up when we arrived. The fridge works too, although it had no temperature adjustment. A second positive is that the convenience store on premise is terrific, well stocked with a friendly staff.

The restaurant was useless for food. We got takeout our first night and they managed to charge us over $50 (before tip) for boardwalk food consisting of a small pizza and two sandwiches. We tried to eat out on the patio but could not manage to order 3 burgers after waiting behind a single guy for at least 10 minutes at the "drink station". I didn't even want to know how long it would have actually taken to get those burgers -- so I gave up. I hear they have rentals but the line to get one was at least 10 people deep so I gave up on that too. And they have this neat water thing for kids but it looks like it is only good for older kids and is setup like an expensive babysitting service, not really as a feature of the resort (i heard they charge like $10/hour per kid).

The bay beach is rocky. The other beach was a bit nicer but covered wall-to-wall with docked boats with the exception of the area set aside for the kids playground baby sitting service. They also refused to extend checkout to 12, required that you checkout in person at the registration center, and I got an offer to hear about their conversion plans to condos for a well-deserved room discount but was told that if my spouse didn't attend they would be "breaking state law" to extend the offer to me individually. Uh-huh...I'm sure that's not the only fib they were ready to hawk me on that deal!

Probably the best part of the trip for us was visiting the local B&B brewhouse for food and homebrewed beer and taking the ferry across the river. Yes, the best part of our trip had NOTHING to do with the Nautical Inn. That should tell you something. There was a regatta this weekend but I hardly saw a single sailboat from the Nautical Inn's location.

Oh and if you get a good offer for a weekend through their website or email program FORGET ABOUT IT. You'll have a better chance of getting through the White House to George Bush than getting to the reservation desk to take advantage of the offer. By the time you do get to them, it'll be sold out. Trust me, I had tried several times over the last year. If I had known more about the place, I wouldn't have bothered!

All and all, if I had a boat, this might be a decent place to crash if it weren't so expensive. But it is, and I would suggest if you want a resort experience that your money will go much further elsewhere.