Business was booming at the beaches this past weekend.
More than 200,000 people visited the Rehoboth Beach/Dewey Beach area over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
There are two easy ways to tell how busy the Fourth of July the weekend was, according to Carol Everhart, president and CEO of the Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce.
You can weigh the amount of trash the City of Rehoboth collected, which was 37 tons -12 tons more than last year. Or, you can look at traffic.
“Heavy traffic equals heavy visitation, and we definitely saw that,” she said.
You also would have been hard-pressed to find a hotel room last weekend. 98 percent of all hotels were booked on Sunday, July 3, which was the day Rehoboth set off its fireworks.
Final sales numbers for the weekend are still being tabulated, but restaurant and store owners in downtown Rehoboth were reporting record business, according to Everhart.
