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Well if you want a little luxury you need to come to River Dunes Marina north of Oriental. It is a beautiful riverfront community. For $1.25/ft. per night you have lovely scenery, great floating docks, a beautiful main lodge with a restaurant (only weekends now), billiards, a screened porch, and the dockmaster's office. The pool with some private cabanas, 2 hot tubs and a fountain are next door. They also have a superb shower and exercise facility which includes an office where you can use their computer or fax machine. Bicycles, canoes and kayaks are also available. And a great advantage for cruisers are the two courtesy cars which we used for getting groceries and going into Oriental for dinner. There are also some small cottages to rent and two large homes are also able to be rented. The private homes in the community are large and many have the southern architecture. There were only a few transients there, so the small laundry was very accessible for our use. He said during the summer months it is more difficult to use. One drawback is no ATT accessibility, but Verizon works and they have free Wifi. Secondly the mosquitoes, due to the warm muggy weather seemed to enjoy our northern blood. Overall it was a great find and glad we stayed two days. A storm blew through while we were there but due to the protected harbor we hardly felt it. We highly recommend trying this three year old marina to renew after being out on the water awhile and cleaning up after a bug invasion!.
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| One of the magnificent waterfront homes in River Dunes |
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