The parking is overpriced during the summer season - the best time to go here would be late spring or early fall when it isn't so busy. The beach can get crowded mid-summer and spots close by are difficult to find, unless you want to pay $40 for a spot a little ways from the beach. The shops are actually nice and have some interesting finds for reasonable prices. Good ice cream stands, too. However, I really prefer the beaches further north - York and Kennebunk.
This is an amazing beach. Nice waves and wide beach. Lots of sand and happening boardwalk. Recommend.
This is a great beach area and adjoining places to eat and shop. Weather was great in August. It's so busy parking can be an issue at times.
If you want to go to a beach while you are near New Hampshire this is the one. It was a super clean beach! It has many cute shops and a ton of food places! You need to eat fried dough while you are there! It is amazing!
Most of my time in this area was stuck in traffic along the strip. Since it is on a peninsula, there was only one road that accessed the strip and traffic was backed up. It might have been more fun if I hadn't have been so frustrated. There were lots of shops and restaurants and an arcade/casino. The beach seemed nice. But if I had it to do all over again, I would have avoided this area.
Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Ocean Boulevard, the main street along the beach, includes a boardwalk, many shops and businesses, several seasonal hotels, and the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom. Surfing, swimming or plain strolling/wading awaits everyone- from babies, tots, kids, teens, moms and dads, grandpas and grandmas, and great grandparents.The drive along US Route 1A is very pretty, winding along the coast past . The New Hampshire seacoast is almost all beach, with some rocky headlands and coves, and four state parks with their own uncommercial stretches of beachHampton Beach main beach provides year-round recreation, with Atlantic ocean-front facilities situatied along miles of sandy beach. The Seashell complex includes a band shell amphitheatre, public information services, comfort station and first aid. Metered parking is available along Ocean Boulevard. There is "sand sculpture" along the beach and fireworks every Wednesday night from 9:30pm.Don't forget to have McDonald's..
This place was nice with shops and usual spots to eat. Parking is steep at 2$ an hour but pretty open in the end season. Casinos are lackluster so don't really bother with them.
We explored several beaches the area. By far the best one was Hampton North beach, less crowded, easier to park and the beach is perfect.
I am writing this review about the Seafood Festival that was held at Hampton Beach this weekend. the price to get in is a rip off. if you go in all three days it will cost you $18 per person for all three days. The price is crazy. It to bad they have ruined this fun time because they want si much just to get in. It is $5 a person on Friday, 48 per person on Saturday and $5 per person on Sunday. So if you go all three days it is $18 and that is before they try to charge you $2 for a bottle of water. Save your money and stay home it is not worth the price. Oh I forgot it will cost you up to $40 to park also ! I have gone to this for many years but I will not be back. I hope some one from the event reads this but I know they will not care because so many people pay the crazy price to get in.
Pay for parking for the day a couple of rows back from the beach. Closer parking requires feeding meters to stay long. Enjoyable beach and busy beach scene along streets crowded with people and shops. A milling, relaxing, beach place.Fireworks some nights but park early because too crowded to drive through and hunt for parking just before event.Seabrook Beach may be favored by locals, but Hampton also good,