Tidewater Marina

Edwin on November 14th, 2023:

Great Marina and super helpfull and nice staff. The facilities are mostly new. I recommend it and will be including this marina on my rotation.

tim on October 11th, 2023:

excellent on every level!

Anonymous on September 4th, 2023:

Very helpful dock staff

Jim on August 11th, 2023:

July 14th, 2023:

I have a five because of outstanding service.

Glenn on July 11th, 2023:

Excellent service from dock hands. Super clean bath houses. Surprised by our mail package being delivered to our boat. What service. The only thing missing were laundry facilities.

Josh on July 5th, 2023:

Very friendly staff. Clean facilities. Made the weekend very enjoyable.

Paul on June 17th, 2023:

A little tight maneuvering for larger boats. Services adequate. The town of Havre de Grace however is awesome, too bad it is a bit off the beaten path. Easily walkable and things to see and do. Take the trip to the top of the Bay and check it out!

Alison on June 6th, 2023:

Very nice marina with great view if you are toward the front. Some of the docks are pretty short so it may be difficult to get on and off. It was rough while we were there so it was rocky but not as bad as other marinas. Walking distance to restaurants and shops.

Chris on June 1st, 2023:

Nice marina. My wife wasn't crazy about the showers/restrooms & they are a little "campy". It's a little tight for bigger boats but the staff is great.

Andrew on May 29th, 2023:

Great marina, friendly and very helpful staff, all among an awesome town!

Doreen on May 19th, 2023:

Well worth the trip off the channel
Helpful friendly staff for landing
6 Clean warm individual toilet/showers
Brewery with music at top of hill steps from marina
Dog friendly
Lovely town to walk around with music playing at corners and cute shops
Music at several bars Ice cream open till 9
Lighthouse park with beautiful wood carvings on pier
Could have stayed longer
Good stop on way to Delaware city

Malcolm on May 15th, 2023:

Ten miles off the Upper Chesapeake travelway, Havre de Grace gets bypassed by the vast majority of Atlantic Coast boaters. It's a shame because there is much to like here. Tidewater Marina is located in the middle of the historic town with museums, restaurants, arts, shops, and Bomboys Ice Cream within easy walking distance. It is a good place to tie up for a day or two to relax and enjoy the town.

Tidewater is a working marina; there are many boats on the hard being worked on by staff, contactors, and owners getting ready for the season. Located in the heart of Havre de Grace, the marina consists of three separate basins, each containing docks for different sized boats. The entrance to each basin is tight and, on a 48 foot boat, we were very careful maneuvering into our slip. All the docks are fixed and with a three foot tide and no cleats to tie off to, a good line strategy is important. We deployed fender boards even though there were bumpers on the pylons. The dock that we were on had just been redone as part of what appears to be an ongoing marina maintenance program. None of the fixtures were new but water and power connections were well maintained and worked with no problems.

The marina staff was responsive to our needs. Telephones were answered, radios were responded to and there were two staff members on the dock to assist us. The staff at the well maintained office/store was very accommodating. Like the docks, the bath house was clean and well maintained. Six individual units each contained shower, toilet, sink, and dressing area. We faulted the marina for its lack of laundry facilities. The marina is secured behind keypad controlled gates and is well illuminated at night. We felt comfortable during our stay. Marina Wi-Fi was excellent and cellular reception was very good for T-Mobile and good for Verizon an AT&T. The marina was quiet at night with the exception of the high speed NYC/DC passenger trains coming by about a half mile away.

We enjoyed Havre de Grace. The maritime museum was very interesting and the choice of restaurants for eating out was good. We could easily come back and spend more time in this marina and in the town.

Frederick on August 22nd, 2022:

Wonderful location; friendly staff. Town is a great place to visit.

Anonymous on August 16th, 2022:

Great place to stay

Captain on August 14th, 2022:

August 11,12 2022 stayed two days here. Older facilities but exceptionally well kept. Washrooms/ showers individual rooms. Clean, well stocked, ventilation fans, air conditioned, clean and on timers along with motion lights. Hooks on doors and functional clean mats in the showers. On site marine store fairly well stocked and reasonable prices. Older electric pedestals but in good condition well maintained. Nice town to visit and outstanding Ice Cream store Bomboy's Ice Cream Yummy! One of best I've ever been to. Entrance to marina is narrow so need to use power when transiting to maintain steering. Fixed docks so need to tie up accordingly

Anonymous on July 25th, 2022:

Very Friendly, very helpful. Great town to explore

Joseph on June 21st, 2022:

Great staff. Very helpful. Clean bathrooms. Secure marina. Pleasant town. If I ever come back this way and need a slip I wouldn’t think of going anywhere else.

Armando on May 31st, 2022:

Brian on May 25th, 2022:

Nice marina but tight slips. Well stocked marine store for supplies. Good location. Fixed docks with no cleats. Ok facilities

Craig on October 12th, 2021:

Anonymous on September 20th, 2021:

Great experience overall; staff very helpful, marina is well managed, and Havre de Grace is a charming, fun destination.

Gregg on September 20th, 2021:

Don on August 3rd, 2021:

Awesome staff, and very clean bathhouses. Very close to everything Havre De Grace related. Will be returning!

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Brian on July 6th, 2021:

We did not get any information needed before the trip. It said we should call ahead but when we did they were already gone. I would think they should send an email. Also the slip was not prepared to tie off making it very difficult to set up our lines for an overnight stay.

A Note from the Marina:

Snag-A-Slip reached out to the marina manager for further comment but did not hear back regarding this review. Snag-A-Slip does send an automatic pre-arrival email to all customers beginning 72hrs ahead of arrival. This email contains marina hours, check in and out times, VHF channel, marina contact information, and special instructions or dockage information.

Scott A on April 21st, 2021:

Would stay again. Getting into slips is tight but doable. Good cell coverage and wifi. Great town to visit. Can easily walk it but bikes make it much easier to see more (of course). If nothing else, walk the main streets. Music is playing from speakers mounted in poles throughout downtown. Find your way to the waterfront walkway on the south side of town. No laundry or clubhouse but busy marina with all you need. Nice individual head/showers. Grocery is about 3 miles (According to a local). In order to take a pic, my wife was standing in one of those slanted parking spaces you find in many small town main streets. A young person subtly "urged" my wife to move so she could park her car. We walked down the street a short distance and somebody came up and apologized saying that the driver should have waited to let you finish because: "That is just not how we roll in this town."

Well worth the trip up here. You have to want to get here. Very nice town to spend a couple of days. Lots of antique stores.

Anonymous on September 14th, 2020:

Marina staff were great, good location to town, marina seemed well maintained. Seawall provides good protection from the boaters not considering the no wake restriction. I question the seamanship of the permanent slip holders there. We were fortunate to be on our boat on 3 separate occasions we has to push off power boaters that were tying to get into their seasonal slip.If we had not been there and alert, we would have had fiberglass repairs. Evenings were pretty buggy. We were careful to not open the doors for long and still got tons of little fleas inside our boat and spent 1/2 hour vacuuming them up. Lots of seaweed and pretty significant tide change for Ches Bay.

George on September 2nd, 2020:

Nice folks, very clean restrooms. Felt safe and protected.

Torsten on August 10th, 2020:

Good Location with a short walk into town.

Thomas on July 28th, 2020:

Great location close to town. Very helpful staff. Nice boat hardware store onsite. Get ice before they close at 5 tho, and be prepared for town to be mostly shut Sun. Basic But adequate toilet/shower facilities. VERY narrow entrance to marina.

Tobias on October 9th, 2018:

Very quiet and comfortable marina. Docks were in great shape. Basins are tight to maneuver around in (for a 50' boat), but it's doable. WiFi was fast, water pressure was great. Relaxing modest rocking from passing boats. Considered one of the mooring balls, and glad we settled on a slip - as we would have been rocked apart from all the boats in the river. Marine store is well stocked. On-site services available. Great location to walk around town. Bath houses are adequate. If we come back to the north end of the bay, we'll definitely stay here again.