Author: Jeff Evans

What’s on Your Summer Bucket List?

Dive into the ultimate summer adventure in Ocean City, MD! Experience the best of OCMD with our exciting “Bucket List” promotion. Complete these must-do activities, check them off your list, and you could win an unforgettable stay in Ocean City!

Here’s how to join the fun:

1. Explore Ocean City and complete as many bucket list items as you can.
2. Snap a photo of at least one bucket list activity.
3. Share your photos with us for a chance to win. Upload on the below form or tag us in social media @ OCMDHotels

Prizes:

• Grand Prize: One lucky winner will receive a free stay in OCMD.
• Swag Bags: Ten winners will receive exclusive Ocean City swag bags, packed with goodies.

Don’t forget to tell us about any exciting activities we might have missed! Make this summer one for the books, filled with unforgettable memories and endless fun.

Get started on your Ocean City summer bucket list today! CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19th, is a significant holiday in the United States that commemorates the end of slavery. It marks the day in 1865 when Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, which declared that all enslaved people in Texas were free. This announcement came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which had officially outlawed slavery in the Confederate states on January 1, 1863.

Here are some opportunities to learn and celebrate the Holiday on the Delmarva Peninsula:

1. Visit the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument and National Historical Park. The Center houses permanent exhibits, a film, restrooms, a museum store, an information desk, and a research library, and it serves as the park’s primary visitor destination. More information can be found by clicking here.

2. Elevate Vocal Arts (EVA) is excited to present “Afro Beats,” a Juneteenth celebration of vocal music by Black composers at the Freeman Arts Pavilion on June 19th. For more information, click here.

3. Visit the Frederick Douglass Statue and take the driving tour. November 25, 1878, Frederick Douglass gave “Self-Made Men” speech to a segregated audience in the main courtroom of this courthouse. The statue of Douglass on the courthouse lawn, created by Jay Hall Carpenter and erected in 2011, portrays Douglass at the podium delivering this speech. Click here for more information.

For a more in-depth history on the Holiday, visit the “Historical Legacy of Juneteenth” article by the Smithsonian here.

Celebrate Dad this Sunday at one of these amazing restaurants in Ocean City! Enjoy a drink, lunch or dinner!

Lunch Special: $10 Burgers and $4 drafts from Noon until 4pm! Or enjoy a complimentary draft beer with a purchase of a dozen oysters all day long! For more information on Marlin Moon on 33rd Street, click here.

Special Menu on Sunday includes:
10oz sirloin with a Cajun Mushroom Sauce  $36
Jack Daniel’s BBQ Ribs and Coconut Shrimp Surf and Turf $32
18oz porterhouse with a rosemary compound butter roasted potatoes and asparagus $55
$5 Drafts at Coral Reef from Noon until Close
For more information on Coral Restaurant on 17th street, click here.

Fathers Day Giveaway on Sunday! Any Dad dining with us can register to win for a Harrison Harbor Watch swag bag including an oyster stew pot!

Also enjoy Happy Hour at the Raw Bar from 2pm to 6pm with $3 Natural Lights, $8 Crushes, $8 Margaritas, $10 Steamed Shrimp and $10 Steamed Clams. For more information on Harrison’s Harbor Watch, click here.

Complimentary Draft Beer with the purchase of any of these entrees on Sunday.
12 ounce Cowboy Bone-In Pork Chop
14 ounce hand cut Ribeye
6 ounce center cut Filet Mignon
For more information and a full description of these entrees at 32 palm on 32nd street, click here.

Enjoy Happy Hour from 4 pm to 7 pm with Drafts for $3.25, Frozens for $8, Rum Runners for $9 and Wine for $6. The Atrium Cafe & Bar is located inside the Quality Inn Oceanfront on 54th street in Ocean City.

Enjoy Happy Hour from 3pm to 6pm with $3 Natural Lights, $10 wings and $8 crushes. Live music from 1pm until 9 pm! Learn more about the Wedge Bar & Grill at the Ocean City Inlet by clicking here.

Special menu for Saturday and Sunday includes one entree and two new drinks:
(pictured above) Charbroiled 20oz Porterhouse, charbroiled, topped with Boursin Cheese Compound Butter, served with grilled asparagus and creamy mashed potatoes.
Mandarin-Mezcal Margarita
The Captain’s New Fashion

$50 gift card and a Deep end t-shirt and hat for $100. Available at the 17th street pool bar only.

Want to learn how to surf this summer?! We can help you with a great partnership we have with the Wave Riding School in Ocean City Maryland.

The world renowned Wave Riding School has all your surf Lessons and other forms of riding waves covered.  They offer a one of a kind system in learning to surf that maximizes success and ensures fun.  After all, fun is the ultimate goal! Call or text 443-203-WAVE (9283) for details and book online, click here.

Owner Brian Stoehr and his team of instructors consist of some the best skilled wave riders in the country.   After competing world-wide, they’re now focusing their expertise on helping the next generation of wave riders.   No matter the age or experience in the ocean, their team can help.

Lessons offer a complete how-to in your choice or surfing, bodyboarding, skim, stand up boogie and even paddle surfing.  Everything you want to know, and in the RIGHT order.  This is the key to our success.  Many people learn to surf the wrong way and that greatly affects their ability in the water long term.  Their approach to teaching makes the experience easier than you ever imaged and more memorable than you can believe.  The fun starts NOW.

All lessons are $99 and last 1.5 hours from check in to finish (8:30am-10am or 5:30pm-7pm) – CUSTOMIZED TIMES AND PROGRAMS MAY DIFFER.  TEXT FOR DETAILS.  Please note for ALL lessons, ocean conditions are ever changing and lessons can be postponed at any time.

Stay More, Pay Less

Want to enjoy four nights in Ocean City for the price of three? Call us at 410-289-6222 and take advantage of this amazing deal!

Guests must stay at least 4 consecutive weekday nights, in order to qualify for the fourth weekday night as free. This offer excludes Fridays and Saturdays. Guests would have to check in on Sunday or Monday and checkout by Friday. Available weekdays starting May 27, through June 27th. Sundays through Friday (checkout by Friday). *Limited time promo, while supplies last. Subject to 72-hour cancellation.

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From the National Weather Service – A partial solar eclipse will happen tomorrow afternoon with peak coverage between 75-85% across our area. Hopefully the clouds stay away! Remember: you should keep your eclipse glasses on for the duration of the event to view the sun. Even during peak coverage!

What a better place to view it then from your Oceanfront hotel!

Love OCMD and college basketball?? Then you need to play our tournament pick’em challenge! The grand prize winner will win a one night stay at their favorite OCMD hotel! Get your picks in now before the tournament starts on Thursday!

CLICK HERE to play!

Be the grand prize winner and you could be relaxing in OCMD in no time!