Lodging
Golden Sands Beach Resort
Facing a wide sandy beach, this hotel offers rooms, split rooms (a mini-suite with double rooms) and efficiency suites with amenities usually found in larger resorts: private balconies, two pools (one outdoor, one indoor with Jacuzzi), a private pier with the delicious Ocean Grill Restaurant and exciting Tiki Bar. If you decide to leave the beach, a few miles away are a freshwater lake, shopping and dining, an aquarium, a historic site, fishing piers, Carolina Beach State Park and historic downtown Wilmington with the Battleship North Carolina, museums and award-winning restaurants, breweries and night life.