Jolly Roger Oceanfront Motel & Pier

About

Nearby:

(all within 3-4 blocks, easily walkable)

The Jolly Roger Oceanfront Motel & Pier is a motel in Topsail Beach, NC. It consists of three structures:

the office and pier
a two-story block of rooms - lower floor faces the street, upper floor has an ocean view; appears to be cinder-block construction
a three-story block of rooms - all rooms face the ocean, but the lowest floor is below the level of the retaining wall and has no ocean view; building appears to be of wooden construction

Internet is not provided by the hotel, but the BroadSail wireless service is available.

Notes

Room 328 (top floor of the larger block), an "efficiency", has a small kitchen with a stove and refrigerator as well as wooden ocean-facing deck (very nice view) and 31-inch LCD TV with HDMI and component-video RCA connections. The kitchen has no microwave, and the refrigerator is a small full-size unit with no internal light. The controls on the stovetop are iffy.

Access to the BroadSail wireless internet service was spotty; it tended to be better during the evening and early morning, but it was always better closer to the landward side of the room. We frequently had to work next to the door or even open the door and hold the laptop out over the walkway to get a signal good enough to load web pages, submit posts, etc. There was no signal at all on the ocean-side deck. BroadSail's access points 47 and 48 seemed to be approximately equal in strength.