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Immaculate and well maintained home on SSB! NEW for 2024 upgraded kitchen!

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Exterior of The Breakaway 417 1st Street, SSB, NC!
Dining Area (seats 6)
Updated kitchen (2024) Island View
Quartz Countertops and tile backsplash (2024)
Living Area with 65" TV

Reviews

10 out of 10
Exceptional
4 bedrooms3 bathroomsSleeps 8171.9 sq m

Popular amenities

  • Dryer
  • Parking available
  • Washer
  • Air conditioning
  • Kitchen
  • Barbecue grill

Explore the area

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Sunset Beach, NC
  • Brunswick Islands Beach
    ‪3 min walk‬
  • Oyster Bay Golf Club
    ‪5 min drive‬
  • North Myrtle Beach Beaches
    ‪34 min drive‬
  • North Myrtle Beach, SC (CRE-Grand Strand)
    ‪28 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

4 bedrooms (sleeps 8)

Bedroom 1 Upstairs Master

1 Queen Bed

Bedroom 2 Upstairs

1 King Bed

Bedroom 3 Downstairs Master

1 Queen Bed

Bedroom 4 Downstairs

1 Queen Bed and 1 Single Bed

3 bathrooms

Downstairs Bathroom

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Master Bathroom

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Outdoor Shower

Outdoor shower

Upstairs Ensuite Bathroom

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Spaces

Deck or patio
Porch or lanai
Outdoor shower
Kitchen
Balcony
Dining area

About this property

Immaculate and well maintained home on SSB! NEW for 2024 upgraded kitchen!

The Breakaway is a beautiful and well maintained home owned for over 23 years by the same owners. Each year it is updated and kept in immaculate condition. It is a very short walk to one of the top 20 beaches in the world according to a recent study by National Geographic.
Sunset Beach is a quiet, family beach great for families and couples. We offer four bedrooms and three bathrooms with an outdoor shower. Our screened in porch offers a view to the ocean as well as our Widow's Watch on the third floor. There is a private balcony off the upstairs master bedroom. Recently added is an outdoor renter's lockout area for your bikes, golf clubs, beach chairs etc... NEW for 2024 Quartz countertops and tile backsplash with zero radius sink and disposal.

Please note: During the summer months linens, towels, soap and shampoo is NOT included due to the fact that we rent both on VRBO and via a local rental company. In the off season months linens and towels are included with the rental.


Property manager

Lorelei Milan
Premier Host

Languages

English

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Amenities

Kitchen
Washer
Dryer
Free WiFi
Air conditioning
Outdoor space

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House Rules

Check in after 3:00 PM
Minimum age to rent: 30
Check out before 10:00 AM
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Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17
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Events

No events allowed
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Pets

No pets allowed
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Smoking

Smoking is not permitted
Please make sure the renter lockout key is put back on cork board and the house key (if using) is returned to lock box in shower.
Linens are NOT included. You may rent them from Julie's Rentals or bring your own. Bed sizes are King (1), Queen (3) and 1 twin bed.
PUT CANS OUT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS PLEASE! . A $20 fee will be charged if cans are not empty for the next guest. They come early !!

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Host has indicated that there are no carbon monoxide detectors or gas appliances on the property
Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property
Safety features at this property include a deadlock

We should mention

A car is recommended for transport to and from this property

About the area

Sunset Beach

Located in Sunset Beach, this holiday home is near theme parks and near the beach. While the natural beauty of Ocean Isle Beach and Holden Beach can be enjoyed by anyone, those looking for an activity can explore Cherry Grove Pier. Travelling with kids? Consider Ingram Planetarium and Museum of Coastal Carolina. Make sure you get close to the area's animals with activities such as game walks and birdwatching.
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Sunset Beach, NC

What's nearby

  • Brunswick Islands Beach - 3 min walk - 0.3 km
  • Oyster Bay Golf Club - 5 min drive - 4.7 km
  • Sandpiper Bay Golf Course - 11 min drive - 9.6 km
  • North Myrtle Beach Beaches - 34 min drive - 27.5 km
  • Holden Beach - 53 min drive - 44.4 km

Getting around

  • North Myrtle Beach, SC (CRE-Grand Strand) - 28 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Boundary House Restaurant - ‬10 min drive
  • ‪Gravy Southern Eatery - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪Calabash Creamery - ‬10 min drive
  • ‪Captain Nance's Seafood - ‬11 min drive
  • ‪Beck's Original Calabash - ‬10 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Immaculate and well maintained home on SSB! NEW for 2024 upgraded kitchen! pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

What time is check-in at Immaculate and well maintained home on SSB! NEW for 2024 upgraded kitchen!?

Check-in begins at 3:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Immaculate and well maintained home on SSB! NEW for 2024 upgraded kitchen!?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Immaculate and well maintained home on SSB! NEW for 2024 upgraded kitchen! located?

This family-friendly Sunset Beach holiday home is located by the sea, within 2 mi (3 km) of Brunswick Islands Beach and Rees Jones Golf Course. Ingram Planetarium and Oyster Bay Golf Links are also within 3 miles (5 km).

Reviews

10

Exceptional

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Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 41 reviews

9.8/10

Cleanliness

10/10

Check-in

10/10

Communication

9.8/10

Location

9.8/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Sean P.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Another Great Stay!!

This was our second stay here and didn't disappoint. We'll be staying here again.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Emily B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely Trip!

This was our 3rd year staying at this house and we love it. Great location, and great set up for our family. Looking forward to next year!
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Walter B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Yearly visit

It’s like coming home. We know where everything is and we are comfortable here.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ben W.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great House!

We had a great week! The house is very clean and well laid out. Had everything we needed.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lori C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Wonderful

Perfect place to create lasting childhood memories!
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lori C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Highly recommended

Wonderful place to stay. This was our fourth year here and I would highly recommend it.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mike B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Awesome place!

Beautiful and clean property. Highly recommend staying here. Short walk to the beach! Kids loved it.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Julia S.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Couples Trip to the Beach

We had an amazing stay at the Breakaway with our friends. Perfect setup for our friend trip! Great island for a quiet relaxing week at the beach. Would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Susanne H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Beautiful, bright and easy walk to beach

We had a wonderful stay at The Breakaway! The house was clean, the kitchen well-stocked, there were plenty of bathrooms for folks to use plus an outside shower for rinsing sand off when coming back to beach. Even though linens/towels aren’t provided it wasn’t a big deal for us. It was a few minutes walk to the beach, market and shops. Lorelei was great to work with and very responsive and our family had a wonderful time:)
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Susan B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location

Wonderful

Had a great time!
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Susan A.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Amazing place

This is an amazing house in a perfect location! We will be back!
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2021

10/10 Excellent

Jana T.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great Family Vacation

We had another great stay at this property. It’s perfect for our family. Close to the beach and pier (easy walk) and the kitchen is well stocked with pots, pans and cookware etc. Love it is convenient to the convenience store and ice cream shop, too.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Karen C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very nice

The house was very clean and updated. It is within minutes walking distance to the beach and access to the beach was very easy. The rooftop deck and screened in porch were enjoyable. AC works very well. (We went during a very hot week) Also an added benefit, this beach is the quietest beach area I have ever stayed. Very peaceful and relaxing. Overall a very nice place and would highly recommend.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely stay at the Breakaway

Another wonderful year at the Breakaway! Bright & open floor plan, accommodating to our 3 children, well-stocked kitchen, and short walk to the beach. We’ll be back!
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Another great stay!

Another wonderful week at the Breakaway! We brought our boys and 2 month old baby girl. Everyone had a wonderful time — we’ll be back!
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Karla R.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location!

Our family loves staying at this beach house! It is the perfect set-up for us! Everyone has their own room and bathroom, the living room is a large space for everyone to hang out in and it is not too far from the beach! The host has been great and has been an easy process! We thoroughly enjoy our week stay every summer and plan to come back!
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jana T.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Beautiful house close to the beach with a view

This beach house was perfect for us! We loved the floor plan and how well it was stocked. Everything was clean and welcoming. What we liked most was that it was convenient to the beach and pier. A short walk to both made it the perfect spot for us! We definitely recommend staying here and plan to rebook it again ourselves!
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Michael B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

4th Year in a Row

This will be our 4th year renting this property. Always clean and comfortable.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Emily B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

We’ll be back!

Loved our stay at this home. It worked well for our family (6 adults and 2 small children). Great location close to the beach and everything in Sunset Beach. The photos and description were accurate. Host was responsive. We already booked the house again for next year!
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Another wonderful stay

We started staying at this house in 2019 after renting on 36th street for 30+ years. Our 6th stay was just as wonderful as the past 5. The house is perfect for a family with young kids, as it’s close to the beach and has ample space for all. The kitchen is fully stocked and boasted some nice updates since last summer. The owner is extremely communicative and very responsive to any questions or concerns (but we never have concerns). My boys refer to The Breakaway as our “Sunset Beach house” and it would be hard to stay anywhere else! Another week that we were all sad to see come to an end. Thank you, Lorelei!
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lori C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Wonderful

This was our third year coming here. Wonderfully kept spacious house with plenty of room for our group of 3 adults and 4 kids. Our favorites are it is within walking distance to the beach and ice cream, and it has plenty of outdoor balcony space including a screened in balcony and a widows watch where you can see and hear the ocean from the house.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Kim H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

June 2023

We had a wonderful stay at The Breakaway. The house was clean and decorated beautifully! The house had everything we needed for the week. The beach, fishing pier, and shops were just a short walk away. There were different community events such as craft fairs and live music on the fishing pier which you could hear from the screened porch. You will definitely enjoy yourself at The Breakaway!
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Maryellen M.

Warm and Bright - fabulous stay!

This home is perfectly located with the beach up the street and shopping and restaurants easily accessible. The home itself is beautifully decorated and family friendly. All four bedrooms were lovely and inviting. The open floor plan on the main floor was cheery and fun. Lots of seating for eating or enjoying a movie or game on their large, mounted flat screen TV We found everything we needed for our stay and the owner was super helpful and available for questions. We hated to leave and would love to go back. We recommend it highly to anyone. It's a perfect place to share with family or friends and relax. This is an excellent vacation get away.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

René G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Awesome beach rental!

We loved the house- great open floor plan, 4 bed/3 bath worked great for our family, and the roof top balcony was wonderful! Really close walk to all the stores and the beach. Only minor negative- linens and towels aren’t included and that’s not obvious when looking at the page. There isn’t even hand soap in the bathrooms. It seems dishonest to me to not clearly state that linens aren’t included. I have never stayed anywhere that did this. My MIL told me to ask before we left so I did, but the owner never emailed me back. It cost an extra $80 to rent linens for the week from their service and we ordered just enough to get by with. I would rather have known ahead of time, I could have worked it into our budget. I don’t even own a queen bed so I certainly wouldn’t buy/bring all of that with us. Also, the lock box for the keys is in the worst place over some wooden slats and it’s really easy to drop, if we didn’t have the magnetic scope in my husband’s toolbox we would have been screwed.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Lori K.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fall trip

Second time staying at this house. Such a short walk to beach and lots of room inside.
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2021

About the host

Hosted by Lorelei Milan

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We are Paul and Lorelei Milan and have owned The Breakaway for 23 years. Our now adult children learned to swim and ride bikes as children at SSB. Each year we upgrade the home as it is our home away from home. As avid golfers and travelers we try to get to Sunset Beach as much as possible. Over the past 23 years this home has become our family gathering place with multiple generations. The times we cannot be there we enjoy opening our home to fellow travelers and beach lovers. We hope your family makes lifetime memories here as we have done.

Why they chose this property

Sunset Beach is truly one of the nicest beaches in the world. We looked up and down the coast of North Carolina when on the hunt for beach property and knew the second we stepped on the island that it was the place for us.

Why Sunset Beach, NC?
Read the articles listed below: Sunset Beach in the News

* USA Today featured an article “A Sweet Secret on North Carolina’s Sunset Beach, NC (2/14/2017)

* Coastal Living ranked Sunset Beach, NC one of the “10 Most Romantic Beaches in America” in 2017

*https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/top-beaches-world (SSB ranked in the top 21 beaches in the world)

Kindred Spirit Mailbox - USA TODAY

What makes this property unique

One of the top reasons we chose the Breakaway was the close proximity to the beach and other island amenities. We love the open floor plan and knew the upper decks and lower screened in porch would be a perfect place for morning coffee or evening cocktails. Unlike a lot of homes, we improve our property each year.

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