Waves Ocean Front Resort

Crooks! A story similar to the bike story already on here. Occasionally in these summer hotel towns the hotels will sell some of their furniture and room fixtures, as they renovate. It’s usually a good way to get decent home goods for a good price.
This place was selling all sorts of stuff, including some refrigerators, one of which I bought at a pretty good price. Well, I got home, loaded it in and it doesn’t work. So, I load the refrigerator back up, drive all the way back to OOB and talk to John, who is apparently in charge of selling these fixtures. He tells me, «Oh, you got one of the bad ones. Most of them are fine.» Apparently he knew some of them were broken. So I go to dig for a working one. Nope– all broken. Not to mention John is apparently selling them still, and didn’t respond when I asked if the buyer knew they were all broken. After having to wait around for John to reappear, and being told by the lobby staff that they couldn’t refund me (rather rudely) he reappears to sourly give me my money back, with a curt apology and again no response when asked if their new owners knew they were all broken.
Wasted hours of my time, selling broken goods under the guise that they’re working, and giving me a hard time when I point out their crookedness. Haven’t stayed here– it’s a good thing, because if their hotel business and how they treat out-​of-​towners is anything how they treat their neighbors, it’d be two-​faced and rude.

This place is adorable! The beach is literally a 2 minute walk, & they have an outdoor pool as well if you don’t like swimming in the ocean. Everything is in walking distance and it’s great that the Amtrack station is just over on the street parallel to the hotel — super convenient for people who don’t drive!
The room wasn’t anything fancy but it WAS more than I expected it to be. The only downside with the room was the bathroom (it was pretty small) & they no longer have smoking rooms, but really — that wasn’t an issue at all. The room was spacious, with a small «kitchenette» including a sink, microwave, fridge, and small counter which was excellent for bringing home leftovers from dinner on the pier.
The staff members were amazing — we have a medical condition that involves equipment that absolutely CANNOT be out in the bad weather. It was raining the weekend we visited and the hotel staff was more than happy to take our medical equipment AND our luggage and hold it in their office until our room was ready when we first arrived and until we had to walk over to the train (at check-​out).
I cannot thank them enough for being as kind and accommodating as they were. We have already talked about going back to this hotel because we had such a great experience and it is in a great, convenient location that fits every single one of our needs.
Thank you for everything Waves Staff!

I’ve stayed at this hotel before during the summer and paid a high price of $ 179 a night, but if you go after Labor Day, the prices drop by about 100 a night so you can get a nice bargain after the season. I decided to go back up here in mid September with the weather in the high 80’s and sunny. This motel is very close to the beach which makes it worth staying at.
The only thing to keep in mind is many of the restaurants within walking distance after Labor Day are closed so there are a lot less options available to eat at. There are places to eat in the next town over in Saco, ME. However, the beach is accessible as always no matter what season it is and the experience should be similar to the summer experience if the weather is right. With less people that might be a good thing.
Now to comment on the actual hotel itself, it’s pretty much ordinary with nothing particularly impressive about them. The summer prices are high, (prices after Labor Day are much better), the TVs are completely outdated, they not only have mostly basic stations but the TVs aren’t even flat screens or hi-​def. They are still the old fashioned boxed TVs and for the high summer prices, that seems pretty unreasonable and they don’t even cater breakfast which a lot of hotels do. They do have a pool that you can go in to but the pool is small and the hot tub is almost always occupied. The only reason I have stayed at this motel is for the beautiful beach location. I would give 4 stars for the beach experience, 2 for the hotel so my final rating will balance to 3 stars.

So it isn’t super modern but I wasn’t planning on adding the hotel to my real estate investment so I don’t care how modern it is. It is clean, convenient, great staff, comfortable beds, warm pool, on the beach with a great view. The only negative I would say is the parking is bad-​like sardine can parking (but the attendant is out there at night to assist people), and the climb up and down all those stairs was hard for my 75 year old mother. The check in process was easy and we arrived early so the staff checked us in early and called when the room was ready. I am very happy with our stay there and from chatting with others in the hot tub, that was the general consensus.

Not a kid friendly hotel!!! If you have kids stay somewhere else!

I took my family to OOB for the long Fourth of July weekend this year. I can not begin to express my satisfaction and at times find myself highly impressed with the facilities management. The location is ideal. Steps from the beach, close to the Pier and other shops and attractions. That’s if you find that you have to leave the resort. Lafayette had thought of everything from a breakfast spot to a convince store. Staff is everywhere, Grounds are cared for meticulously, Security can be seen at night patrolling the grounds. Noise during the day can be much at the pool, but that is expected. At night, the noise is bet controlled. My family will be returning.

Talk about a bunch of crooks!
I was in OOB for a long weekend with friends. We rented a side by side bike from waves bike rental. We paid the 1 hour rate ($ 15/​hr) and said we’d be back in an hour. The person working said «don’t worry about the hour time limit. Take it for a while». When we brought the bike back 4 hours later we were hit with a charge of $ 75. I told the man at the desk that the guy who rented the bike to us said to take the bike for a few hours at the first-​hour rate! He didn’t even respond! I would not recommend going to this hotel, if they cheat bike rental customers like that I can’t imagine how they treat people who stay at their hotel!