LBI

Aside from my frequent trips to Avalon, I also visited Long Beach Island this summer. I went down for a weekend with some of my roommates. LBI is another beach location on the Jersey Shore, but it's a little more commercial than Avalon. LBI is also much bigger. I'd have to say that although I enjoyed my trip down to LBI I much prefer Avalon; it's probably just because I've been going to Avalon for years and this was my first visit to LBI and I don't know the area as well. In my comparison of the two vacation spots, LBI definitely has better beaches. Sadly the beaches in Avalon are eroding. If you try to walk out on the beach at 13th street, where I stay, you'd find a pretty steep cliff. The beach had eroded so much that there isn't even sand left. Bulldozers and Trucks speckle the doons in hopes of restoring the once beautiful beaches. In LBI I spent practically the entire weekend on the beach. The beaches were well maintained and completely in tack. I suppose it's the same for both but trying to eat between the hours of 7 and 9 in LBI is definitely a challenge. My friends and I drove around from place to place trying to get a table, but places were either way too expensive or way too crowed. We finally ate at the Boat House; it's a cute place but the food was awful and it was kind of tacky. Although more expensive, restaurants in Avalon, I find, to be all in all a pleasant dinning experience. I'm not trying to put LBI down, because I really did like it, but I am certainly biased toward Avalon.