Update: oh surprise a big brawl on the beach today requiring a helicopter. NYC kids have ZERO respect for anything and our government is not handing our citations and rules. Same thing in queens last week when brooklyn kids invaded a baseball field for a concert. Anothrr helicopter required. I guarantee these kids left the beach filthy too. Dont these kids have any parents? Charge their parents! Their kids behavior today was disgusting. I say no one on the beach 18 amd under without someone 18 and over who gets the citation if something happens. Long Island kids are not brawling on the beaches in Long Beach or Lido. Trashy behavior because they go home to trashy parents. That behavior needs to stay in Brooklyn. Ruining it for everyone else.

Ive been going to Jones Beach for 50 years...this will likely be my last visit ... Another poster said it best..."you offer $10 parking and what you get is a bunch of people, no money packing as.many people as you can into one car. They're like renters, no investment in the area." ...Jones Beach was once a nice, peaceful family-oriented beach just a few years ago. Apparently the trashy crowd spread the word that it was a "nice beach" and as always, once trashy people show up, its all downhill from there. They never seem to know they're the actual problem. Then they're confused when they're having the same problems they had at their old beach. The new bar where the state run cafe was is very noisy. So the first thing you walk into on field 4 now is loud bar music instead of that beachy seagull sound. The food was fine, their hamburgers need pickles. Every fifth person has a personal really loud radio (Im talking party level with different kinds of music so you cant enjoy any one music and they carry it strapped.across their body so even the boardwalk as you walk down is just loud noise.) The beach was FILTHY this weekend. The trashy crowd overstuffed the closest garbage cans even though there were 20 other empty cans. They couldnt even bother to walk 20 feet to an empty can. Garbage was blowing everywhere. Pretty much Long Islanders have stopped coming here. Seems like a southern Queens/ Brooklyn crowd spread the word. Yuck. There was a young couple arguing and grabbing at each other like they were going to hit each other, the bathrooms were absolutely disgusting! People were washing their hair and clogging the sinks with large amounts of hair and sand. The toilets were gross. Ive never seen them like that ever. A lot of cursing from large groups and last year we saw a fist fight and mother screaming at her kids in the bbq area in a harmful way. The family bbq areas attract loud, rude groups, those were a mistake to add. Sad that this is now what was once a very classy beach. People even brought dogs this weekend. They need more enforced rules and ticketing especially about radio volumes, language and garbage. I'm going to see if weekdays are any better but somehow I doubt it. Never liked Lido or Tobay but the place was shockingly bad this year. Even the walk to the beach was loud radio playing and loud cursing people. The radios were echoing off the tunnel. The kids.couldnt do the echo thing we've done for decades. The pool last time we visited had a really bad vibe, people arguing in the pool, people fighting. We go local.now. Used to like to give the kids the pool/beach combo I grew up with. The one star was generous. It's not the beach itself, it's the new crowd. This whole experience was a hard pass.