Call 252-726-4111 for Reservations.

Our family playground is vehicle free, child friendly, and safe. Come visit our private beach with our beach boys who set up your free umbrellas and free chairs and free lounges for you, our pool with its built-in kiddie pool, and our huge oceanfront playground. Relax in or out of the sun on or under our oceanfront patio, lounges, and sun shelter.

We offer a free tropical breakfast during the summer season. You can choose from hard boiled eggs, fruits, cereal, oatmeal, doughnuts and cinnamon buns, cheese, regular milk, chocolate milk, several different juices, and delicious coffee--each cup instantly brewed individually. We have high chairs for small children.

Enjoy the family atmosphere as you watch your children at play or play with them. Take your family on leisurely beach walks and show interesting sights along the shore to your children and grandchildren.

Observe beautiful sunrises and sunsets over the Atlantic Ocean. AnnetteMartin, who has been coming here with her family every year since she was born, painted a seascape here when she was in highschool.

If you like to fish, watch others fish, or just like to walk out over the ocean with your children, the Oceanana Fishing Pier (under separate management) is on our grounds.

We celebrate Easter with our Easter party, which the children love--especially if they find the golden egg and win the prize! Our 4th of July celebration includes cupcakes and punch in the morning and fireworks at night. Every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon we put on our famous watermelon parties.

We are truly a one-stop family resort. There are nearby places to eat: simply walk across the street to Amos Mosquito's Swampside Restaurant for dinner or have a sandwich and fries or bacon, eggs, and grits breakfast at the fishing pier grill.

If our children's playground, child toys, swimming pool, sundecks, free lounges, free barbeque grills, free charcoal and lighter fluid, the sun, looking at the ocean, swimming and playing in the ocean and surf, and walking and playing on the beach aren't enough to keep your family entertained, there are other nearby things to do and see--such things and places as the most popular state park in North Carolina, Fort Macon State Park, the very intersting and very old Beaufort Historical District and the recently remodeled (at a cost of $10,000,000) North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores and several nearby golf courses.

If you want to have a good time, read a book, catch a few rays, catch a few Z's, be together with family, be together with friends, be together with someone, listen to your favorite tunes, or just hang out--Oceanana is the vacation spot for you.

Some of our guests like to wave at the camera, while others prefer to hide from it and some just like to be cute for it. In any case, it's all done in good fun in a safe, family-oriented atmosphere at the oceanfront Oceanana Resort in Atlantic Beach, NC.

In the spring and fall especially, church groups hold retreats here.

People have met their spouses here. Couples get married here. Newlyweds honeymoon here.

For weddings, tee times, fishing trips, tours or other arrangements in Carteret County, contact:



Come find out why some of our guests have been coming back for four generations.

Bus parking available.

We have devoted all of the oceanfront portion of our property to our private beach, patio, sun shelter, lawn (all with complimentary lounges, chairs, umbrellas, picnic tables and chairs, and benches), our pool area (with complimentary lounges, chairs, and umbrellas), our breakfast patio, one of our cookout areas (with complimentary grills, charcoal, lighter fluid, cooking utensils, paper plates and napkins, as well as plastic eating utensils), and our huge oceanfront children's playground. Our buildings are situated perpendicular to the shoreline. Consequently, many of our rooms afford angled views of the Atlantic Ocean, but only a few directly face the ocean.

We begin taking reservations February 1st.

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