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Reviewed August 9, 2012

Our family has been going to Wildwood for 20+ years. We stayed at the Oceanview last year and it was ok so we decided to try it again, mostly because my mother in law is 76 and cant do much walking so she likes the ocean view from the room and being right next to the beach since she cant go on the beach anymore.When we got to our room we were told the air conditioner was down but they should have it up and running soon. Well night came and no air! The room was so humid and sticky and smelled musty like a basement, needless to say we did not sleep well. Day 2-although they said the air cond. was running you could not tell, we were told it would take awhile for our room to feel it because we were at the very end of the hotel. My husband asked for a fan because it was so hot in the room which they did give us,although they should had offered us a fan knowing how hot the rooms were and you can not control the temp of the room you only control the fan speed for the air conditioner low,med,high or off,off was better than on cause it was just warm moist air being blown into the room which made it even worse! By the 3rd night and our last night we did feel some cool air at last,thank goodness for that box fan!! The beds felt moist and it felt like you were sleeping on a sponge, the whole room was damp our clothes smelled musty from the moisture in the air,even the toilet paper was damp,the bathroom is a joke you cant move in it and the tub had some kind of mold flapping in the drain, and is so slippery my mother in law was afraid of falling in it. The water preasure is so bad in the shower you could barely rinse off the soap let alone shampoo from your hair, the outside shower on the beach had better preasure! The bathroom door rubbed on the counter you could hardly shut it. The outside patio has tables and chairs but nobody cleaned them for the next day, there was food and drink spilled on them and I had to wipe them down before we could use it. When we checked out Nobody from the hotel ever asked us how we enjoyed our stay or if our air was working or said sorry for the inconvienence. I will NEVER go back to The Oceanview ag ain, we spent almost $800 for 3 nights in a dirty,hot,sticky,smelly,damp,tiny room!

Date of stay: August 2012
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LukeyNewJersey, General Manager at Oceanview Motel, responded to this reviewResponded August 10, 2012

We are so sorry to hear about your experience. We understand the issue with the Air Conditioning system. During a storm we took a direct hit and it completely shut down the system. We are currently having an engineer look at installing a new system entirely. Again we are sorry for your experience and if you contact me, we would love the opportunity to make it up to you. Thank you.

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Reviewed August 9, 2012

Our family had 12 rooms from the dates 7/31-8/04. It was going to be a nice getaway for us. The ladies at the front desk were nice and polite. Rooms are a little dirty and runned down but we tried to make the best of it. All our problems started when the air conditioner compressor went down Friday night and our rooms went to 92 degrees very quickly. This was the whole hotel that the air went down on. The two male managers were rude and nasty. When we asked questions, all they said was they had to reach the General Manager and couldn't give us any answers. The pool was opened still at 2:00 am and the crowd was rowdy. Someone must have called the police and they came and shut the pool down. People were hot and all they were trying to do was keep cool. When I went to complain the next morning (Saturday), the line was out the door with people screaming at these two nice ladies. It was awful, not to mention the low water pressure and the pool was very dirty. After fighting with Bill the manager, they gave us 50 percent off our rooms. I will never stay here again.

Room tip: The Adventurer and the Gold Crest in Wildwood are excellant choices.
Date of stay: August 2012
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LukeyNewJersey, General Manager at Oceanview Motel, responded to this reviewResponded August 10, 2012

We are so sorry to hear about your experience. We understand the issue with the Air Conditioning system. During a storm we took a direct hit and it completely shut down the system. We are currently having an engineer look at installing a new system entirely. Again we are sorry for your experience and if you contact me, we would love the opportunity to make it up to you. Thank you.

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Reviewed August 7, 2012

Stayed the weekend of 8/5/12. Paid $225 a night for a oceanfront room. The view was beautiful too bad we could not sit on the balcony the tiny twenty year old wall air conditioner was draining so much water that we would have needed a umbrella to sit out there. Not that it cooled the room though. The central air conditioning was broken. The room was very hot. When we complained they told us we should keep the curtains closed in the room during the day to help it keep cool. So much for the ocean view. We were given the option to look at two other rooms both were hotter than the room we had. They kept telling us our room should be cool because we had a separate wall unit. It was 92 degrees outside and it was cooler outside than it was in the room. Finally we asked for a fan which they gave us but at $225 a night this was ridiculous. The clerk suggested I use the pool to cool off. Only problem is the pool water was very cloudy with alot of junk floating on the top. The bathroom was probably 3 feet by 5 feet. They did provide bar soap but no shampoo or hairdryer was available. The water pressure in the shower was very low. The carpets were filthy. I never took my shoes off. The topper came the morning we checked out. We opened the door to our balcony and I noticed some weeds growing in the carpeting. The only bright side is when we checked out we got 1/2 off our stay. But that is because we pushed for it. This place needs to be torn down.

Date of stay: August 2012
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LukeyNewJersey, General Manager at Oceanview Motel, responded to this reviewResponded August 10, 2012

We are so sorry to hear about your experience. We understand the issue with the Air Conditioning system. During a storm we took a direct hit and it completely shut down the system. We are currently having an engineer look at installing a new system entirely. Again we are sorry for your experience and if you contact me, we would love the opportunity to make it up to you. Thank you.

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Reviewed August 7, 2012

My husband and I decided to take our daughters on a spur-of-the-moment shore trip and felt incredibly lucky to find a vacancy at the Oceanview Motel three days before the trip (8/4/12 to 8/6/12). That feeling lasted until we entered the lobby to check in, only to be greeted by a strong stench of mildew, mold, and wet cat. My two-year-old daughter immediately wrinkled her nose and asked, "Mommy, are there animals here? I smell something." That pretty much set the tone.

Look, I don't ask for much. I can do shabby. So I didn't mind the cigarette holes and slashes in the sofa that had upholstery sticking out of it. The old, mismatched, and rickety furnishings didn't bother me. The thin, linty towels with holes in the corners? Eh, I'll live. The nonfunctional alarm clock and telephone? Well, we have cell phones anyway. But any room costing over $200 a night should be CLEAN and AIR-CONDITIONED. Instead, what we got was slimy floors, crumbs in the kitchen, a sticky tabletop, a long, curly HAIR (not our own, obviously) on the bedside table, and a general air of mustiness. I just cannot emphasize the sliminess of the kitchen and bathroom floors enough. I'm pretty sure that what passed for housecleaning at that place was a dirty rag passed once over the surfaces.

And then the air-conditioning situation was interesting. The air conditioner was a gigantic metal box hat stuck out of the wall. I wouldn't even call it an air conditioner, it really felt more like a fan blowing mildly cool air. It did absolutely nothing to cool the room down and once the sun went down it was much cooler outside than it was inside. I would have liked to open the window in the bedroom, at least, but it was painted shut so we couldn't. We asked for a different room and we were told, "It's a systemwide issue, everyone is complaining" and "We've got some fans but they are being used in other rooms now, if anyone brings one back we'll bring it up to you." Needless to say we didn't get a fan. Couple that with the state of the mattresses and it made for some pretty miserable nights.

Finally, let's talk about the pool. I know it's a public pool in a motel so it's not going to be pristine. But it shouldn't be gross. In one corner of the kiddy area of the pool was a scuz of scum, cigarettes, and other detritus. It was disgusting. My toddler just stopped and stared, and didn't need to be told twice not to go anywhere near that part of the pool. The general area didn't appear regularly hosed done, and there were damp dirty napkins and food wrappers blowing around.

So, in sum, this motel is the pits. The kids had fun and all, but the grown-ups would have much more preferred to have been somewhere else. My recommendation - GO ELSEWHERE. We've stayed at Fleur de Lis and Coronado before and were happy.

Date of stay: August 2012
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Reviewed August 6, 2012

We booked this place spur of the moment. From the website, it looked very clean. We loved that it catered to kids. Well, our room was disgusting! The bathroom was horrible, the couch looked like it had years of crust. I covered it with a sheet. The floors were dirty and I was afraid to use the blankets. We checked in on Aug 2 and Aug 3 we woke to a wet bedroom floor. The air conditioning unit in the room was leaking. Their idea to fix it was to turn it off and stick a towel under it. After spending a day at the beach and board walk, on Sat., we came back to find out that the air conditioning was out in the entire complex! The rooms were steamy and wet from humidity! Instead of the owner coming to help, he left 2 young men to handle all the angry customers, with no answers in sight! Horrible, horrible experience! Don't let me get started on the pool with the layer of scum in the corner of the low end. Don't waste your money!!!!

Date of stay: August 2012
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