Voted as one of the best places to live by CNN Money, you’ll find plenty of vacation rentals to choose from such as cottages, condos or Victorian era town houses. The calm waters of the bay area are safe for the kids and are ideal for fishing, swimming or sail-boarding; most beaches and parks offer free admission and parking. Across the Sandy Hook Bay is the Sandy Hook National Park where you can bask on the ocean beach shores. Apart from water sports, golfers will be pleased by the golf courses in the vicinity: Beacon Hill; Navesink Country Club. Not just recreations but cultural fests, too, abound the area with theater in Boonton to Jefferson Township fests in Oak Ridge. You could also drive up north to the state of New York.

Of course, this historic town has plenty of shopping options in its quaint and interesting downtown; dining options are aplenty as well. So holiday in one of the Middletown vacation rentals and taste life in this pleasant old town where tons of recreations await you.