This hotel is one of the oldest if not the oldest on the beach road and usually has the cheapest rates. right now u can get a ocean front room for 35$ a night try to find that anywhere else on the beach. and everyone complaining that its run down, well duh its over 50 years old

We really wanted to like this hotel, despite the crumbling exterior, but at 2 in the morning we finally had to pack up and leave.
I thought our cursory room check went well, but the bugs didn't come out until we'd already slept in the bed twice, making it all the more disgusting when we saw the vast array of 'little friends' we were rooming with. DO NOT STAY HERE. The Ocean House Motel has a good website and anyone booking rooms without the advantage of driving by could be fooled - LIKE US.
--We aren't even picky travelers, we just prefer to keep the bugs out of our bed.

Be ready to step back in time if you stay at the Ocean House in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Although badly in need of renovation and updating, Ocean House offered excellent prices (which included a discount from the travel book). The oceanfront deluxe room was spacious and included 2 bathrooms! The rooms that were oceanfront, you stepped out your backdoor, walked over the dunes and you were on the beach. There was not much of an ocean view due to the dunes, but still you were close to the beach so yolu didn't have to haul all your beach things too far at all. The room was cleaned daily and plenty of fresh towels were given. TV worked perfectly. The pool was clean and in good repair. The motel reminded me of the hotels I stayed in as a child when we would go to the beach. Not a highrise with too many people for the elevators to manage but a nice, comfortable room very close to the beach at an affordable price.

I have been vacationing in the Outer Banks for over 30 years. Last week was the first time ever staying at the Ocean House Motel. It is an "old style weather beaten" beach motel. The way the Outer Banks was 25 years ago. The way I wish it still was. There is just nothing relaxing or "beachy" about the new high rise condos/hotels. The Ocean House is not a 4 star hotel, so don't go there expecting it to be. 10 of us went there, we had 3 rooms. One oceanfront and 2 poolside rooms. I had one of the poolside rooms, because I did not want to pay the extra $40.00 a night to see the backside of a sand dune. People staying in the ocean front rooms have to walk over the sand dune to get to the beach just like the people staying in the poolside rooms. The rooms were clean and had a small refrig and microwave. Our room also had a faux fireplace. The beds were made daily, our towels, soap etc. were replaced daily as well. The pool was suprisingly empty most of our vacation. So we usually had it to ourselves in the evenings, after a long day at the beach. The office staff was very pleasant. I really don't have any complaints about the Ocean House. It has all the neccessities at a budget price. I go to the beach for the beach, not for the hotel decor. The motel rooms were clean, had comfortable beds, oceanfront, had a pool for the kids...what more could you ask for? We are already planning to go again this summer for a long weekend!