Mocean Waverunners

This place is pretty cool, just use some brains that the low reviewers here did not, and call ahead and budget your time!

If you’re looking for jet skis, this place has them and jet skis are awesome but you should be warned that this will take a long time. In total, our 30 minute jet ski ride took about three hours. When we signed up we were told to expect a 45 minute wait. Fair enough, we knew to expect it, but it was closer to an hour and then there was a pontoon boat to the floating island where you ride and the driver was smoking the whole time and then there was the safety speech and getting everyone onto the jet skis, but then we finally got to ride and obviously that was drum and probably a little more than 30 minutes, and then the return was pretty similar.
This is just to let you know what to expect, my only real complaint is that their slogan is that ‘you don’t ride around in circles’, except that is all that you can do. The riding area is defined by four orange buoys and because it was low tide we were restricted to a smaller L shaped area within that rectangle.

1.5hr wait for skis to ski around in a lake size area in a circle. The no wake zone takes 15 minutes each way and it’s really slow and boring.
I would not go back to this place.

Best rental I ever had down jersey shore. Most rental places make you go in a circle like a hamster on a wheel. This place allows you to do whatever you want within a 3 sq mile area. You go in any direction you want. I paid for an hour but was on my ski for about hour and 45 minutes when you factor in the ride out and back. Instructors where clear about the rules but def were not hard asses and allowed you to enjoy yourself. Overall it’s a great time and worth the price.

no complaints here. the staff was friendly and moved things along quickly. jetski’s do about 50mph. plenty of room to ride. We are returning customers.

The day began when the friendly pontoon captain picked us up and drove us the 10 – 15 minutes to the floating dock where we would meet up with our rides. In past years his speech about safety and sharks seemed more humorous, but yesterday, with it being my third time hearing it verbatim, it lost it’s luster. I can only imagine how it felt for him this however many thousandth time he had to parrot it out.
Got to the area and, after Pat the owner gave us his safety spiel, it was time to party. For the next fifteen minutes my world revolved around seeing how much altitude the beast I was on could get, and seeing how many times I could toss my lady off the back at high speed. I say beast because that machine had some real power, hitting top speeds of forty with two riders and upwards of fifty mph when solo. To give you a better idea of how proper this business is, this was my third year in a row at M.W., and each time I was on a brand new machine.
Reached the halfway point and we switched positions; it was now sexy Lexy’s turn to treat me like a skipping stone. All was going well, with me hanging on like a rodeo champion, when another company joined us and rained on the parade. Think back to the beginning of Mad Max, when the biker gang storms into town to claim the body of the Night Rider, and you will know how we felt as they came streaking across the play zone, cutting off Mocean riders and generally looting and pillaging the inlet (if you are more the Costner fan than a Mel lover, recall that Smoker raid from Waterworld). My gf was so intimidated she decided to let me drive the remaining ten minutes. Even though these newcomers appeared unaware of the riding instructions Pat gave us (which seemed to be the lawful and courteous code of conduct), I did feel a little sorry for them. Their entire crew was escorted out of the ridding area as we were loading onto the pontoon, which means they only frolicked about for fifteen minutes, those poor saps.
Finished the half hour out in style with one last sensational wipe out that left me, my girlfriend, and the craft each at least 200 feet apart. Battered and bruised may have been how we left this place, but we were also filled with extreme content. The only thing we could do after was to go home and hit the sack at dusk since Mocean sapped all of our energy.
The opinion remains the same: Mocean Waverunners is the way to go in Wildwood and the surrounding areas for a great wave running adventure.
*** new feature this year: you can purchase a CD with photos of your experience at the stand when you finish. They say the average is fifteen shots per rider, though I counted closer to twenty, and the cost is $ 19.99

Wildwood & Cape May, NJ are full of jetski /​waverunner rental places, and Mocean tends to be one of the most popular vendors. It’s one of the bigger operations — we had to wait about an hour to get a jetski without a reservation — since they have a highly visible location, especially from the large rows of 60’s era vintage motels right next to the Wildwood boardwalk.
Once they’re ready with your jetski, they’ll drive you out via pontoon-​boat shuttle to a floating island dock where the jetskis are parked. The jetskiing area is not on the ocean, its an inland harbor. The size the area allowed for jetskiing is a decent size, but not big — it’s good for 30 minute rides, but too small for an entire hour worth of rides.
Only negative issues were when staff bickered with each other and didn’t get along as a team (it takes 4 – 5 people to supervise the riders, drive the shuttle boat, and coordinate with the rental office). They were nice enough to the customers, but you don’t really want to see them yelling at each other either.
I would recommend Hang Loose (
) instead of Mocean. Its smaller with more individual attention and nicer staff, had no wait for jetskis when we showed up without a reservation, and you get to ride out to the exact same riding area (instead of a boat shuttle) so its a little extra time on the jetski.