Ocean city MD vs. Virginia Beach

Haven't been to Ocean City in some years, but the beach is lined with high-rise hotels & condos, which along with day-use visitors, can make for a pretty crowded beach. The boardwalk may outweigh this consideration for some. Virginia Beach is a little less congested, IMHO, although it's been some years since I've been there, too. I much prefer Assateague State Park, just south of Ocean City. Only a handful of people in an area that would have hundreds or thousands at either Ocean City or Virginia Beach, but close enough to Ocean City that you could drive over to stroll the boardwalk in the evening. Probably too late to get into the electric loop in June, unless you stumble into a cancelation, but if you can get by on generator hours, there might be openings in the other loops. The adjacent National Park might have openings, but no hook-ups or hot showers there.