Hampton Beach Seafood Festival 2018 in Hampton Beach New Hampshire

I try to get to the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival every year that I have been living in this area; first in Hampton NH then Newburyport MA. It is held in Hampton Beach NH.

Here is the beach area. They served beverages and there was a live band playing. 

Here is a display of cupcakes that they were selling. The 'package' to house the cupcake is an inverted clear plastic cup with lid. I think this is ingenious. 

This one shows the prices of what is being sold. 

This shows one of the offerings of this food vendor. 

Here is a sign of one of the food vendors. 

Outside a food vendor booth. One can see - on the right - the line for this booth. 

Here is some food vendor preparation areas. 

One can see that these food vendors came prepared to serve a lot of people. This is good since there was a lot of people buying food. 

Here are more food vendors. 

Here is some of the food vendors preparing food to be sold. All  - well most - of the food vendors kep busy. There was a lot of people buying food. 

It is not often one sees an open space in any of the food tents. This is a rare site. It is usually wall to wall people. 

This shows how big and crowded the food tent was. It was not easy getting through but it was worth the effort. The food was really good; at least the ones that I tried (different blog). 

Here is a board from one of the food vendors. 

He was selling scallops that had bacon wrapped around it. He asked me to post to social media. I had put his photo on Facebook and now on my blog. I hope he sees this. 

Here is one of the food vendors. 

This shows some of the crowds that attended the three day event. It was overcast that day but that did not keep people away. 

This shows the crowds and one of the three tents that had food vendors in them.

The photo is not great but this is one of the vendors selling 'fun stuff' at the festival. 

These are just a small portion of the festival. There were food vendor tents, a bear tent that also had seating, there was a couple of live bands playing (not close enough to each other so they overlapped - one can hear one without hearing the other), a craft tent, a row of commercial tents offering a variety of products and there were stores open too (ones that are permanently there plus arcades and restaurants). It seemed like the whole thing was about a mile long. One would definitely walked off anything that one might have eaten and/or drank.

It is quite an experience. I would recommend it for everyone and it is good for the whole family. One just has to make sure to have enough money and room since there was a huge amount of choices.

With the event being so big, they provided parking at different locations with free busing to the event. They get you there and back to ones vehicle. One can tip the bus driver; tip jar next to driver.

The fee to get in was only $10.00. One could pay at the location where one parked. I think this is very convenient. I think it reduced the crowds at the entrance and makes going in faster.

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