Fish Tales Boardwalk Inn
7.2

Good

94 Guest reviews

7.2
Good
94 Verified Reviews
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Cleanliness7.6/10
Service7.4/10
Comfort7.0/10
Condition7.0/10
Neighborhood8.2/10
Amenities6.4/10

2304 Baltimore Ave., Ocean City, United States of America. See map

Swimming Pool
Free WiFi
Parking available
Concierge
Entertainment
Non-smoking
Transportation services
Hiking/biking trails nearby
Free newspapers in lobby
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Hotel Description

With a stay at Fish Tales Boardwalk Inn in Ocean City (Downtown Ocean City), you'll be steps from Ocean City Boardwalk and 6 minutes by foot from Bahia Marina. This beach motel is 0.6 mi (1 km) from Jolly Roger Amusement Park and 1.2 mi (2 km) from Roland E. Powell Convention Center. Treat yourself to a stay in one of the 68 individually furnished guestrooms, featuring private pools and flat-screen televisions. Rooms have private balconies or patios. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include complimentary weekday newspapers and blackout drapes/curtains, and housekeeping is provided daily. Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby and a vending machine. Free self parking is available onsite.

Hotel policies

No rollaway/extra beds available

No cribs (infant beds) available

No elevators

Professional property host/manager

Property does not offer onsite COVID-19 testing

Property does not require health documentation at check-in

Pets not allowed

Check-in from: 3:00 PM
Check-in by: 1:00 AM
Minimum check-in age: 18
Check-out by: 11:00 AM

Cleaning and safety practices

  • Contactless check-out is available
  • Cashless transactions are available
  • Essential workers only - NO

Important information

Property Alerts

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • An effective city/local tax rate of 4.5 percent will be charged
  • Service fee: 3 percent

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

You need to know
  • The seasonal pool will be open from May 15 to October 15.
  • Reservations are required for golf tee times. Reservations can be made by contacting the motel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
  • Cashless payment methods are available for all transactions.
  • Contactless check-out is available.
Special Instructions
The front desk is open daily from 9:00 AM - 2:00 AM. If you are planning to arrive after 6:00 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation. The front desk is staffed during limited hours.
Instructions
  • Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
  • Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
  • Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
  • The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation
  • This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
  • Cashless transactions are available
  • Safety features at this property include a carbon monoxide detector, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, and a first aid kit
  • This property has outdoor spaces, such as balconies, patios, terraces which may not be suitable for children; if you have concerns, we recommend contacting the property prior to your arrival to confirm they can accommodate you in a suitable room
  • Property Registration Number 22-00002791, 2737
Minimal age
18
Spoken Language

English

Amenities

Most Popular

Swimming Pool

Free WiFi

Parking available

Concierge

Entertainment

Non-smoking

Transportation services

Other

Hiking/biking trails nearby

Free newspapers in lobby

Picnic area

Front desk (limited hours)

Outdoor seasonal pool

Parking (limited spaces)

Free self parking

Beach shuttle (surcharge)

Terrace

Vending machine

Uncovered parking

Wheelchair accessible – no

Bicycle tour information

No elevator (single level property)

Upper floors accessible by stairs only

Hotel reviews

7.2
Good94 Verified Reviews
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Cleanliness7.6/10
Service7.4/10
Comfort7.0/10
Condition7.0/10
Neighborhood8.2/10
Amenities6.4/10
10/10
Exceptional
Sherri, 01 Oct 2024
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Was a great place to stay. While the property is older, it’s very clean and well kept. Will stay here again!

10/10
Exceptional
william, 03 Sep 2024
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Our favorite weekend getaway! Awesome location on the boardwalk, pool, clean and safe

10/10
Exceptional
Mariela, 02 Aug 2024
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Close to the beach

10/10
Exceptional
Bethany, 18 Jul 2024
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Had a great stay, staff is so friendly and accommodating with any request we had

10/10
Exceptional
timothy, 10 Jul 2024
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Our room was in need of a makeover….other than that everything was very satisfactory.I would stay there again.

6/10
Fair
Jo, 08 Jul 2024
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The outside has been completely refreshed and looks great. The property outside including the pool is extremely clean and welcoming. The inside of the units, however, needs a refresh as well. Smelled so moldy I had to buy air fresheners. Furniture seemed like it was from the 50's and smelled like it too.

10/10
Exceptional
Michael, 06 May 2024
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We loved the service we got! They made us feel really at home

10/10
Exceptional
Moises, 04 Sep 2023
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Nice, quiet good service good stuff

8/10
Excellent
Deborah, 28 Jul 2023
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Easy check in and out. Clean rooms. Basic comforts. Very nice staff.

6/10
Fair
Verified traveler, 30 Jul 2022
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Clean with a mid-century vibe. However, not a true ocean view, very small and missing small things like shampoo and ample toilet paper.

8/10
Excellent
Alfred, 23 Jul 2022
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Friendly and clean

We booked 3 rooms next to each other for family members. Tish, who worked the front desk, was wonderful and communicated with my wife twice before our visit, to answer questions my wife had and to explain the accommodations. The rooms are dated but clean and comfy. The air conditioner was loud but not really bothersome. The location of this motel is perfect. It’s on the quieter end of the boardwalk. The pool was clean and access to the beach was very quick and easy. We had a great time and look forward to another visit to this motel.

8/10
Excellent
catherine, 23 Jul 2022
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First time stay

First time to ocean city, hotel was very clean and staff very nice. My only gripe would be to put a shelf in the bathroom for toiletries. And add a few more tables around the pool. Several famlies would lay claim with placing their items at.the tables that were there and leaving not letting anyone elsenuse them or they laid claim to.the tables before 6 in the am which i found quite ignorant but not the.hotels fault. If we ever go back would certainly stay again

10/10
Exceptional
Jacquelyn, 02 Jul 2022
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Had a great week at Fishtails. The room was clean, staff very friendly. Good location to the boardwalk and the beach.

8/10
Excellent
Susan, 08 Jun 2022
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Good location

10/10
Exceptional
Gerardo, 02 Jun 2022
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Excelent and comfortably

2/10
Poor
Genai, 24 May 2022
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Aged accommodations, you have to ask for amenities that should be available (refrigerator, iron, microwave, clean rug, door handles were dirty, room was sticky, sheets had hair all in the bed when pulling spread back) I never spent 300 dollars for one night in an environment not even suitable for animals.I would have been better off sleeping in my car! Shame on them.

10/10
Exceptional
Joshua, 22 May 2022
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This place may have been a bit dated and a bit pricey. But was still worth it. I realize late in the evening my ac wasn’t working so I asked for a fan. The amazing staff instantly had me in a new room. Manager was super friendly and all the staff was great. Pool was nice rooms were clean. I’ll definitely return

8/10
Excellent
Patricia, 10 May 2022
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The property was very old. The room had a musty smell. The place was clean just needs some life. No real amenities except a pool. Only one pod of coffee and fixings for two people. Toilet had a leaking tank. Just needs to be updated. No tissue or extra toilet paper in the room. Staff was friendly enough. Place just needs some updating.

10/10
Exceptional
Brian, 08 Sep 2020
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The hotel is very clean but dated pool is not heated but great just to cool off and hang out very relaxing great lil getaway

8/10
Excellent
Dustin, 08 Sep 2020
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Nice place.

Had a very nice stay. Cannot complain about anything.

8/10
Excellent
Anar, 08 Sep 2020
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Old but very nicely located motel with great pool

4/10
Poor
Verified traveler, 25 Jul 2020
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Decent place to stay. Housekeeping could be improved. Pool was very clean well kept.

10/10
Exceptional
Verified traveler, 20 Jul 2020
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Good location

Staff was friendly and good location

4/10
Poor
Verified traveler, 30 Jun 2020
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Service is terrible and the rooms smells bad

2/10
Poor
Verified traveler, 28 Jun 2020
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The oethat wirk there was disrespectful and the room was so dirty to pay almost $700 a night for a motel

4/10
Poor
Verified traveler, 02 Jun 2020
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The only good thing about this property is the location and proximity to the beach and boardwalk. The room itself is very outdated and my allergies blew up when I was there so I could not spend the night. Not sure if it is mold or dust but I'm allergic to both

8/10
Excellent
Verified traveler, 29 Sep 2019
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nice place to stay in will Recommend to anyone!! great location right off the boardwalk.

8/10
Excellent
Verified traveler, 29 Sep 2019
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Check in started at 3, we had changed rooms from Friday to Saturday and called to see if we could leave the car on their property. Very accommodating with that, asked about any earlier of a check in (thought like 130 or 2) front office woman lets us know we could possibly check in my 1230! Very friendly office staff, room is a good place, definitely got our money's worth. Ac was on when we got into the room, nobody banging on the walls at 4am, hot water, clean towels.. all and all definitely a place to stay.

10/10
Exceptional
Kinsey, 13 Aug 2019
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Overall, it was a great hotel. I need to pay better attention as I booked a room without a fridge or microwave but that was my fault. The only strange thing was there was no fitted sheet on the bed. Other than that it was clean and at an awesome location.

2/10
Poor
Jackie, 06 Aug 2019
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This hotel is all about the money be ready to be charged extra fees once you get there

8/10
Excellent
Verified traveler, 05 Aug 2019
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Hotel staff are very friendly and attentive. When checking in the first room given to us had an intense smell and we were switched rooms right away. Perfect location on the boardwalk and great pool. Would definitely come back!

8/10
Excellent
Verified traveler, 02 Aug 2019
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No mini frig. Very basic. Great pool. Nice location. Nice staff

6/10
Fair
stephani, 30 Jul 2019
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Great location and pool. Staff was friendly. Rooms arre very out dated for the price. No fridge, no coffee maker.

2/10
Poor
Verified traveler, 29 Jul 2019
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So disappointed with this motel first time coming down with my family my husband booked our weekend trip for July 26-28. The first night we got there one of the bed was wet blankets quilts pillowcase it was a leak I called the front desk they came with new blankets and just gave them to me for me to re make the bed then didn’t even check the leak on the ceiling. Then we ask for a crib for my child at first they said it will be extra charge we said ok no problem two hours later they didn’t have any. The next day when we came back from breakfast we left our key in the room when the front desk saw we had a baby she stated we needed to get a bigger room and it will be another charge we said fine hour later the front desk manager Trisha Mitchell came to us they didn’t have no room we said ok she then told us we could not stay we had to leave we said ok fine mind you it was on a weekend my husband had to fine another place to stay in. She then also said she can’t give us the full refund we then stated why we are not staying the night. We then called Expedia were we initiated the booking and they going by what the front desk manager is stating they could not help us but give us a 100 coupon my husband and I are so disappointed we lost about 390.00 for a stay that we didn’t stay in. Be aware of Expedia and this motel policy NEVER EVER AGAIN they are not industry of accommodating the guest they are in the industry to scam the guest to use the room and charge the room at higher rate.

8/10
Excellent
Peter, 01 Jul 2019
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so clean !

First i noticed to this hotel is cleanliness from parking, common areas , to our room and then the swimming pool. It was weekend before 4th,July and there’s a lot people so i anticipated that the hotel will be busy. Our room is pretty basic, bed is comfortable . The place is in the beach and to the boardwalk which is important to me . My kids enjoyed the weekend.

10/10
Exceptional
Alex, 24 Jun 2019
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Good price, location, and the weather was great, will deff. recommend this hotel

2/10
Poor
Verified traveler, 09 May 2019
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The hotel location is only good and not staff members..

6/10
Fair
Catherine, 06 May 2019
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Just Ok

WiFi not good and not affordable

6/10
Fair
Verified traveler, 08 Oct 2018
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Quick review

Average stay for a last minute weekend trip. $$$

10/10
Exceptional
Gary, 03 Sep 2018
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Right on beach and boardwalk. Pool uncrowded

Good people running the hotel. Variety of guests from adult fun seekers to families. Enjoyable.

2/10
Poor
dissapointment, 05 Jul 2018
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It was old and very small space not clean no breakfast no coffee nothing noisy can hear everything and everyone talking in the other rooms I felt like I was in a low income section 8 housing staff was rude when I ask if I can pay for parking so that I can get breakfast on broadwalk and walk on broadwalk so I don’t have to leave to park somewhere else it was empty anyway the staff member say no that I had to move as soon as possible the pool is ok but no outside bathrooms had to go all the way back to room to go to restroom I paid 400 for my room I really expected a little better service and facilities never will return it was really not worth what I paid for it’s the honest god truth

2/10
Poor
stephanie , 28 Jul 2017
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Worst experience we've ever dealt with.

Tried to check in my family and woman with longer blonde hair at reception was terrible. She was rude & called me a liar. It was so bad we decided to eat the cost of the hotel stay and book at another hotel. NEVER STAY HERE! Trust me.

8/10
Excellent
Verified traveler, 21 Jul 2017
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Nice hotel for older close to the beach

Completely satisfied. No problems at a good price.

8/10
Excellent
Richard, 19 Sep 2016
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Good value

Was good room could use some mini fridge but other then that nice.

2/10
Poor
Judy, 06 Sep 2016
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Location was good. On the boardwalk.

The state of Maryland was under a state of emergency and the hotel staff would not even consider giving us even half our money back. We were will to take half or a credit to return, but the desk clerk just kept repeating the same thing like she had a speech prepared for her.

4/10
Poor
murphy, 29 Aug 2016
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Close to the beach

I stayed in the double no fridge or microwave. The room was suitable for my two night stay. The hotel was right on the beach and on the quiet end of the beach/ board walk. The room was clean and plenty of wash clothes and towels. Front desk staff was very nice, there is a $10.00 deposit for a room key. You do get the money back. There is a parking lot across the street. I perferr that parking that lot. You don't have to worry about anyone parking to close to your car. I only had two minor issues. The pool closed at 6pm, that is way to early! Also the next door neighbors were playing loud music past 12am. I made a call to the front desk and they were there to tell them to quite down in 5mins. No more music!

6/10
Fair
Theresa, 09 Aug 2016
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First vacation in 2 years

We booked the motel for 4 people. They charge per person, almost 1100 dollars for 3 nights. When we arrived to our, dirty fingernails on the floor and trash under the bed,make-up stains on my pillow, motel room there were only 2 towels,no soap or shampoo.The shower was so small the curtain would stick to you the whole time you were taking a shower.The window unit a/c was so loud you woke up in morning with a head ache. But after a 3.5 hour trip at least it had toilet paper. My children had friends come meet them that where staying on 5th street. The lady at the desk told them they were not allowed on the property. This turned our family vacation into our children staying on 5th street with their friends since they were allowed there. Leaving my wife and I to constantly walk to the other hotel 18 blocks to see our children. This was the first time we have been able to take any time off in two years. So to say the least we were a little disappointed.

4/10
Poor
Camille, 25 Jul 2016
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2 stars

There is a rule that won't allow you to have any visitors. This is very inconvenient especially if you want to meet up with friends and family. I suggest staying here alone.

4/10
Poor
john, 25 Jul 2016
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Coffe addicts take your own

big price for no breakfast or coffee pot in rooms **************************************************** *****************************************************

8/10
Excellent
Lisa, 19 Jul 2016
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Great location

Motel is an older motel. The room was clean. Location is great. Right on the boardwalk. The only things I didn't like was the pool is only open 9-6. I think that is too early to close. Also we had wanted to check out at 7 am and the office wasn't open yet. We had to wait until 830 am to get on the road.

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