Bayview Wildwood offers 76 rooms, suites, and cottages. Packages, all of which include meals, start at $152 per person per night. Most include a free stay for kids.
The resort boasts a wide array of outdoor activities -- from canoeing, kayaking, and mountain biking to tennis, baseball, and volleyball. Motorized boats and water skis are also available.
Some activities – such as the weekly watermelon football and baseball games – pit staff against guests. Evenings include entertainment by musicians and comedians; there’s a cashless casino on Saturday nights.
We spoke to Aileen and Bob, a couple from North York who’ve been coming to Bayview Wildwood for thirty years and stayed in the cottage next to ours.
“This is the first time we’ve come without our kids,” Aileen told me. The family visits the resort in the summer but also returns during the winter when activities like ice fishing and snowshoeing are popular, she says.
Aileen and Bob are not alone. Many of the families here have been coming for decades.
“In the summer, it’s all about family,” Dianne told me, describing how the summer program is designed with family fun in mind, which keeps families coming back.
With many regular patrons, Bayview Wildwood remains a bustling place. But that doesn’t mean the resort has been immune to the high Canadian dollar and soaring fuel costs, each of which has deterred some visitors from the U.S. Having one of the rainiest summers on record hasn’t helped either.
“I’ve never seen a year like this,” Dianne says. “It’s never been this slow.”
Guests agree. Aileen tells me in the past it was normal to line up to use the amenities. Not this year. My wife and I walked up to the beach at mid-day to take our choice of kayak. Finding an open tennis court on a Saturday afternoon was no problem either.
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