We can not say enough wonderful things about Oleg, his group of guitarist and the New Age Flamenco…read moregroup who played at our daughter's rehearsal dinner. They were classy, so friendly and played the most magical music- it set the right tone for the evening. I would highly recommend the group for your next event!

Oleg and crew played at our wedding and it was amazing! Oleg was fantastic to work with - easy to…read morecommunicate with, on time, and professional. Given our venue (the aquarium), Oleg had to setup 2 different sound systems, one for the cocktail hour and one for the reception, and he took care of all of it. The music that they played was beautiful and a highlight of our wedding reception. We would highly recommend Oleg and his team to play at your wedding, party, or gathering.

Just a PSA for people like me who are visiting Aberdeen and think the ship will be where it is…read moremarked on the map. The address is just for the home port of the Lady Washington and it travels around many months out of the year on the West Coast. Don't be like me and drive around the port for 10 minutes looking for a ship that isn't there! You can check https://historicalseaport.org/to see it's current sailing schedule. Would love to see in person one day.

The Lady Washington is a 20th century replica of the original 18th century ship. Chances are that…read moreyou've seen this ship in one of her film appearances: - The Interceptor in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - The Enterprise in Star Trek Generations - Captain Hook's ship on Once Upon a Time While the Star Trek Holodeck Arch is long gone, it was still a thrill to board this tall ship and imagine what nautical travel must have been like in the 18th century when the Lady became the first American ship to make landfall on the West coast of North America & the first American ship to travel to Honolulu and Japan. If you ever get a chance to tour or sail aboard this tall ship do it! "Computer, remove the plank!"

I have seen a couple of Nirvana documentaries of Kurt Cobain's earlier life that show his childhood…read morewhen he lived in this house. While passing through Aberdeen, I decided to do a mini Nirvana pilgrimage and check out the town that Kurt Cobain grew up in. After spending time at Kurt Cobain Memorial Park near Young Street Bridge, I walked over to his childhood home. The house is just around the corner. It has been refurbished and it is gated off. Someone else currently lives here, so all that you can do is take photos from the sidewalk. Cool historic place to check out, especially if you grew up a Nirvana fan like me. But there is not much else to see or do.

Kurt Cobain was born and grew up in the Washington coast harbor town of Aberdeen WA. This is where…read morehe lived from 1968 to 1984. It was purchased by Lee and Danielle Bacon in 2018 from the Cobain family. They paid $225,000...a bargain considering that the cardigan Cobain wore in 1993 on the set of "MTV Unplugged" sold at auction for $334,000. The Bacons have restored the home to appear as it would have while Cobain lived there. At the time of this review, you cannot go inside, but plans are in the works to make private tours available in the near future. Tours will begin about 1.5 miles away at a soon to be opened Nirvana tribute lounge and gallery cafe as zoning does not allow the home to operate as a traditional museum. It's great to see Aberdeen finally beginning to embrace Cobain's contribution to music history. Fans travel great distances from all around the world to find Cobain's beginnings and pay tribute in the town that helped to shape him. Just a few days prior to writing this review, the Aberdeen City Council unanimously voted to make February 20th (Cobain's birthday) Kurt Cobain Day.

There is something very "fishy" about this place! Mermaid museum, clam chowder, wine tasting, and…read moremini golf all in one e place? Not to mention that you can wonder around the museum while drinking your wine? THIS IS NOT A MUSEUM!!! THIS IS A MERMAID CONSPIRACY!!!! Time to "Clam Up!".

Our 5 year old LOVES mermaids. When we found a place called the international mermaid museum we had…read moreto make a trip. The price point for 4 adults and 2 kids was great. We paid $10. Which if it was more person we may have been disappointed for the size of the museum. It was the size of a medium sized room full of information, mannequins in mermaid tails, some mermaid themed films playing and pictures.

This museum is definitely worth your while. Tons (literally) of relics from the area. A fascinating…read moretrip back in time. Well worth the (extremely reasonable) price of admission. Owner is very friendly and knowledgeable.

Stopped by the Polson Museum on our way back to Seattle after a road trip along the coast. Cost was…read more$5/person and in all honesty, I would've paid more for the experience we had. I don't know if we just got lucky the day we went but we had the museum to ourselves and towards the middle of our visit the director asked if we had any questions which led to us being given a tour of the place. He truly made it memorable with all of his knowledge. You can tell when someone does their job for the paycheck vs those who love what they do and to me it seemed like Director was truly passionate about the history of the area and each item in the museum. There are many small details throughout the building that make all the difference, for example the homemade doll furniture in the dollhouse upstairs as well as the old spice/seasoning containers in the kitchen cabinet and my favorite- actual Hoquiam and Aberdeen directories from every year. I couldn't believe there were that many Directories still in amazing shape especially seeing how dated they were. He showed us one from 1911 with the Polson family listed! We will visit again whenever we're back in-town to see all of the new updates that are planned for the future! If you love history and the feeling of being transported to the past I think you'd really enjoy this museum.

Had an awesome time on the Hawaiian Chieftain in Westport, WA. The crew members were very…read moreknowledgable and entertained us with sailing songs. We saw gray whales, seals, and lots of birds. Great time!

We just tried their new breakfast menu and it was great. Huge portions of very tasty food. I had…read morethe half serving of biscuits and gravy, which was enough for two. Light flaky biscuits with tasty, slightly spicy gravy full of sausage. My partner had the breakfast sandwich, also enough for two. Same light, generous buttery biscuit served with a side of nicely browned and crispy cottage fries. All served with their usual cheerful efficiency and friendliness by windows looking onto the beautiful gardens. We didn't take pictures but you all should definitely try it for yourselves!

We went to Westport Winery Restaurant to try the new breakfast we saw advertised on their sign by…read morethe road. It was a holiday (Memorial Day) and it wasn't very busy. There were 6 of us and we ordered various meals - Captains Choice, Biscuits and Gravy with eggs and the Siren's Breakfast Sandwich. All the breakfasts included the cornmeal biscuit. We also ordered a Hawaiian cinnamon roll to be split with everyone. Our meals arrived and we were all excited to eat. We reminded our waitress that the cinnamon roll hadn't been brought to our table yet. She said "Oh, do you want to eat that here or have it to go?" We said we wanted it for here. My sister ordered scrambled eggs, but was given over-easy eggs. My husband's eggs were completely forgotten. My husband offered to eat my sisters eggs that were cooked wrong while she waited for her scrambled eggs to be prepared and delivered. I opened up my biscuit to put the whipped butter on it that was provided and the biscuit was luke-warm and didn't even melt the butter. I took a bite anyway and was disappointed at how dense, crumbly and salty it was. Thinking it was just me, I didn't say anything to my fellow dining companions. I moved on to the rustic potatoes and even though they looked nicely browned, the centers were undercooked. Unfortunately, the bacon was also overly salty. Because of all the salt, I went through two full glasses of water during my meal, of which I only ate half. My brother-in-law who had the biscuit breakfast sandwich said "what is so salty??" I said it was the biscuit. Everyone else at the table agreed. Someone else said their bacon was overly salty too. My brother in-law also mentioned that she forgot his cinnamon roll again. Although the coffee was good, we were never offered any refills. We all left 1/2 or more of our meals on our plates. We were all clearly finished with our meals when the waitress came back and asked if we were ready for our cinnamon roll. By then it was too late. We said no. We didn't want it anymore. No plates were ever cleared from the table. She just returned with our checks and left. We were very disappointed. As my dad used to say, That was a 3 timer. First, last and never again.

Staff is helpful and made our experience fun and exciting. Good for all age groups. Nice, easy day…read moreand other amenities.

My boyfriend and I had no right having as much fun as we did at the Westport Aquarium! We walked…read morein, looking to kill time, and we're greeted enthusiastically by Mark, the owner and head of household. We talked for ages, he shared with us his passion for wildlife, gave us background information on nearly everything in the aquarium, and set us up for a fun little exploratory venture. After we got our little cup of shrimp, we were off - we fed the fish and the ducks, read every little piece of information available, and checked in with Mark anytime we wanted to learn a little more. You could be in and out of here in a matter of minutes, but we took our time and enjoyed this quaint, local, and loved aquarium for what it is.

I haven't been to Westport in about three years and in the past when we go out it was to run the…read moredogs on the beach which they enjoyed so much... until they didn't and preferred to stay home more. For a long time Steve and I have been wanting to go to the Westport Maritime Museum but never did due to always having the dogs with us but finally we made it here quite recently. The admission is $5 and that gives you the ability to explore the upstairs and downstairs of the main museum building, an adjacent building where a lighthouse lens is located and two other structures with large windows with whale bones housed inside them along with some other mammal bones. The cost of admission is totally worth with what you get to see and for me the main highlight was the lighthouse lens as I'm sure it was for a lot of visitors. Lots of clutter picked up from the ocean waters and used as artifacts which is fascinating (because a lot of this stuff came from various parts of Asia) and disturbing at the same time. Lots of other intriguing content to look at as well and a very nice gift shop. Great way to spend a bit of time while exploring the marina. I don't feel like you'd spend an enormous amount of time here. Maybe an hour to an hour and a half but it depends on your pacing but no need to wipe out a whole afternoon to fit this museum in.

Very informative museum about the Coast Guard and the local maritime history. The well-informed…read morestaff answered our every question and then some. So much information! We'll have to come again. Don't miss the lighthouse lens from the Destruction Island lighthouse. It is amazing!

Tucked in Ocean Shores is the Coastal Interpretive Center - there's parking out front and a couple…read morecute spots for pics and to check out pieces of shipwrecks around the building. Admission is $5 ($10 for a family) which sort of appears steep when you drive up but we were really pleasantly surprised by how informative and entertaining the Center is. Kids (1,6,7) enjoyed the taxidermied animals, the kids area, and some of the educational exhibits. Adults liked the exhibits and just wandering around. We lasted here a little over an hour, and I thought the stop was well worth it on our cloudy and wet morning.

11/10 stars if I could. Very family and young kid friendly. The staff was so welcoming, explained…read moreeach exhibit to us, and shared their revamp story. During the Covid Shutdown, they redid and expanded making their center bigger, fun for all ages, and add lots of historical references. Really amazing to walk through, learn about ocean shores, the indigenous tribes of this area, &and the animals of course. My 1 year old son had a ball and didn't want to leave. Extremely affordable too ($10 for 3 adults). Very clean and kept great.