"Anyone looking for an adult getaway would feel out of place," said Kyle McCarthy, editor of FamilyTravelForum.com, about such resorts.
At a time when acceptance of gay people seems to be increasing, such resorts might seem superfluous.
In such resorts as Wildwood and Atlantic City, the nightlife goes until dawn, whereas other seaside towns such as Avalon, Ocean City, and Beach Haven are family resorts.
The big tour operators offer packages to only a few of such resorts, and anyway, they don't expect to make many sales at this time of year.
Charting two years in the life of the company's Bognor Regis holiday camp – one of three such resorts left in the country – Fox reveals the changes that she claims have transformed the chain.
But the debate on reviving such resorts has, in fact, played into another, more tangled, discussion over a nation divided between those who struggle to get by and those who get by with ease.
But the town, once the du jour destination for Edwardian holidaymakers and which, like many such resorts, can evoke an air of faded glory, has experienced a renaissance this past month – and it is all thanks to Banksy.
"We were skiing with President [Vladimir] Putin in Austria," he explained, "and there was talk that it would be good to have such resorts in Russia".
Still, the costliness of such resorts failed to deter the 55.1 million people who visited U.S. ski areas during the 2006-2007 season.
