The Matador Oceanfront Resort at dusk, its lit pool and red-and-white balconies stacked four floors above the sundeck, with North Wildwood behind it

Open May – October · North Wildwood, NJ

Oceanfront in North Wildwood, New Jersey

Steps from the sand and the boardwalk. Family-owned and family-run since 1995 — the same faces every summer.

4.0 from 272 Tripadvisor reviews

On the beach and the boardwalk

Not near them. On them. Park once when you arrive and walk everywhere for the rest of the week.
Owned and run by the family

Robert and Heather Del Monte are here daily. When something needs fixing, one of them fixes it.
Kitchenettes in most rooms

Cook breakfast, pack a lunch for the sand, and skip the queue on the boards. Cookware provided.

Where you'll stay

Twelve room types, from a queen and a fridge to a two-bedroom apartment

Every room shows how many it sleeps, what the beds are, what you can see out of the window, and whether you can cook in it. That is what people actually want to know.

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Most common

Type 6

Ocean View Efficiency with Living Room, 2 Doubles

Sleeps 6
2 double beds + sofa bed
Ocean view
Kitchenette

Our most common room: two double beds, a living room with a sofa bed, a kitchen and a front-facing ocean view. Four versions.

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Ocean front

Type 7

Beach Suite

Sleeps 6
2 queen beds + sofa bed
Ocean front
Kitchenette

Two queen beds, a living room with a sofa bed, a kitchen and a front-facing ocean view. Sleeps six.

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Type 1

Motel Room, 1 King

Sleeps 2
1 king bed
No view
No kitchenette

One king bed for two, a microwave and a beverage fridge, and the beach a short walk from the door.

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Live from the deck

See the beach right now

The camera looks out over the boardwalk and the dunes from our sundeck. It is here for the guests who check it in February, in the snow, to remember what they booked.

The Matador's oceanfront sundeck from above — red umbrellas and loungers, with the boardwalk, dunes and the Atlantic beyond

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The view from the Matador sundeck, North Wildwood — the boardwalk, the dunes and the Atlantic. Live through the season, May to October.

A day at the Matador

Park once. Then the week goes something like this.

01 · Morning

01 Morning
Beach first

The sand is on the other side of the boardwalk from the sundeck. No car, no parking, no hauling everything a quarter of a mile.
02 · Midday

02 Midday
The heated pool

For when the ocean is too cold for the little ones. The wading pool is right beside it, and the spa tub is adults only.
03 · Afternoon

03 Afternoon
Out on the boards

Arcades, rides, pizza and salt-water taffy, with the tram car running the length of it. You will hear "watch the tram car, please" in your sleep by Wednesday.
04 · Evening

04 Evening
Supper on the deck

Three gas barbecues and picnic tables on the sundeck. Cook what you picked up at the store and eat it looking at the water.
05 · Dusk

05 Dusk
Loungers and the last of the light

Red loungers, the boardwalk arch, and the ocean going dark beyond it. Then do it all again tomorrow.

The front exterior of the Matador Oceanfront Resort seen from the lower sundeck, red awnings over the office entrance

Our story

Three generations, one motel

Carl and Rosalie Del Monte moved to Wildwood in the 1970s to start a new life. They sold their house in Philadelphia, cashed out their retirement fund, borrowed from relatives, and broke ground on their first motel in October 1978.

In 1995 they bought the Matador from Rosalie's Aunt Josephine. Their son Robert and his wife Heather run it now. Carl and Rosalie have seven grandchildren, and a good number of them have worked a summer here.

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