Welcome to the Barrier Island Station. The Barrier Island Station is a large
timeshare resort that sits right on the Atlantic Ocean in Duck, North Carolina. Now this resort
has a wide variety of timeshare units. They have everything from one bedroom units to
three bedroom units. On my visit to the Barrier Island Station I stayed in building 300
which sits on top of a hill in the middle of the resort.
This is the building that I stayed in. I'm on the lower unit of this building with the first balcony.
This is the back side of the building that I stayed in. There is also a two-bedroom unit above
the three-bedroom unit that I stayed in, and there are stairs to go to the different units,
and as you can see there are quite a variety of unit layouts. All right in unit 313,
open the door, you enter into a hallway.
You come down and just to your right it's the first bedroom which has two twin beds.
Lots of space,
and just down the hall is another bedroom which also has a lot of space in it, a nice double bed,
and lots of room. It has a bathroom.
It also, you can get to from the hallway which leads back to the entrance.
The stairs on the left goes upstairs to the third bedroom, the master bedroom.
They also have a washer and dryer in this unit, very nice. This is a very nice three bedroom unit.
And go up the stairs,
then you enter into the living room area,
which has a couch and a love seat.
Then you have a dining area with a lot of space,
and you have a kitchen with a counter and bar stools.
Travel down the hall past the bathroom and into the master bedroom. Now because of the Covid
epidemic, this unit does not have any bed spreads, but normally they would have a nice bedspread.
Then you have the bathroom for the master bath which also has an entrance
back into the living room area.
And they have a balcony. This unit has a real nice balcony. It's very large,
so you can get plenty of people out here and you can see the parking,
just outside of the unit. The Barrier Island Station is easy to find just go down Duck road
to this sign that says Barrier Island Station and when you get there. It's a gated entrance so only
the people that are supposed to be here are on the property. That's great for security purposes.
Once you get through the gate, it's easy to find the check-in office.
You can see the sign that directs you to the building and the check-in process here was
really easy. So it's not a problem to get checked in at this resort. When you enter the resort you'll
see a large map that shows the complete resort. Of course this map is now outdated, because the
indoor pool is no longer there. And the word is that they're going to take and rebuild the indoor
pool and move the checkout and check in office to the location of the indoor pool that's on this map.
This resort has a very large outdoor pool. In fact I think it's the largest outdoor pool I've seen
at a resort. It even has a bridge over the center of it. It also has a kiddie pool next to the large
outdoor pool, and behind the outdoor pool you will find a volleyball court.
This is very nice and I'd kind of like to get a team together one day and play a game here.
Down by the beach they have shuffleboard courts. These are really nice and they have
all the equipment in the equipment locker for shuffleboard, and yes I checked in there
and all the equipment was available. Now they also have the walkway that goes to the beach,
and a handicap walkway that goes to the beach. This is very impressive, not many places you go have
both kinds of walkways, and above the walkway to the beach they have the snack shack, where you can
come and get some food during the day while you're at the beach, and if you need to use the restrooms
the restrooms are right there, and just on the other side of all this is the pool, right behind
the ping pong table, they've got outdoors, and they have a swing. This is very nice down here. This is the
handicapped walkway to get to the beach. It's got a very nice gradual slope, that has several turns
back and forth so you can make your way up to the beach, and onto the sand, and at the peak of this
walkway to the beach, there's a place where you can stop and observe the water.
Now at the end of this walkway, they have a large step down. So why would you build a walkway and
leave a step down like that. Come on guys you can do better than that. Of course the main reason
people come to the Barrier Island Station is the beach, and they've got a great beach here. They've
got a lifeguard station right off of the entrance, so it's a very safe place for your kids. Today is
rather unusual, there's a category three hurricane just south of Bermuda, so it's kicking the surf up
here, and so the waves are coming up higher than normal on the beach, because the beach is usually
much longer than this. Now also the fishing here is pretty good. Came out here and caught 10 fish in
just a couple hours the other day. It was a great time, plus when the waves weren't as big. I was out
there and did a little surfing. It was a lot of fun. There was a sandbar, I could stand on and catch the
wave. Great old man surfing conditions. Getting off the beach is real easy. There's a marker
that says Barrier Island Station. And then you just go up these steps, and you're off the beach.
And they have a place where you can clean off your feet, as you get off the beach that comes
in really handy. And if you're hungry while you're at the beach, they have a snack shack.
You can go to and get different sandwiches, ice creams. You can even get a beer or a glass of wine.
Now that's really nice when you're on vacation.
And if you have a good day at fishing while you're here, they have a real
nice fish cleaning station. You can bring your fish clean them out,
hose off your gear, and throw away the fish guts you don't want. For those of you who like
tennis, they have some really nice tennis courts here that seem to be in good condition.
They have an outdoor play area for the kids right behind building number three.
They also have a nice swing under the tree so you can sit and watch your kids at the
playground. And if you like to grill out when you go on vacation, they have charcoal grills
located behind the different timeshare units, that you can use. Also next to one of the units they
have a horseshoe pit, so you can play horseshoes. But the equipment was supposed to be in that box
over there, when I looked in there was nothing there. Come on guys get the equipment out here.
Well it's the last day of the vacation, and I've had a great time. This three bedroom unit gave us
a lot of space, and I had a great time. It is an older time share, and it has a few maintenance
issues, which I hope management will take care of, but overall it was very nice. Now I went to the
beach every day. Really enjoyed that huge outdoor pool. Went fishing caught some fish and even did a
little surfing. So overall a very successful week. Enjoyed a lot of nice restaurants in the area.
So I would highly recommend coming here. But be aware that it is an older timeshare
and needs a little updating now. What they tell me is that the outdoor pool is the only pool
you can use right now, but they're going to rebuild the indoor pool, and also move
the check-in checkout location to the indoor pool when they build it. So until next, see ya.