Keep your vacation stress free! Pack your casual beach clothes & essentials and let Ocean Atlantic Rentals deliver the rest!

CURBSIDE PICKUP/CONTACTLESS DELIVERY: 1-800-635-9559

All 4 of our stores (Duck, Corolla, KDH & Avon) are open 7 days a week from 9am-5pm.

This season we will be offering same day delivery on orders placed before 1pm.

We have spent a considerable amount of time and effort into creating and posting policies regarding:

• Disinfecting, cleaning and handling of OAR rental gear

• How we are serving our OAR customers safely (curbside/delivery, etc)

JUST RENT IT! Since 1979, OAR has been serving families with quality gear for their beach vacation fun, their baby needs, or the even the beach cottage, all at reasonable daily & weekly rental rates.  Reservations before your arrival are strongly encouraged, and can be made at www.OceanAtlanticRentals.com or toll-free at 1-800-635-9559 every day of the week!

Everything can be delivered to your door; from bikes to surf boards, kayaks and paddleboards, OAR stocks the fun stuff to enjoy in the water, or on land. Back at your beach home, OAR has you covered with gas grill rentals, rollaway beds, beach towels, and even dog crates!  Bike rentals for the entire family are just a call away at Ocean Atlantic Rentals, or get around town on a Golf Cart LSV.  These street legal golf carts are a great way to explore the villages, or get your family and gear to the beach everyday if your vacation home is some distance from the Atlantic ocean.  If you are traveling with small children, OAR has cribs, high chairs, gates, and even play yards and strollers for the little ones, made just for the beach!

You don’t have to buy cheap beach chairs, umbrellas and coolers while you are here. Just rent them at Ocean Atlantic Rentals, and get quality gear that is built to last. Individual items may be rented, or Beach Value packages are available where you will really get your money's worth!

Cabana services are available with the OBX Umbrella Service! Your items will be setup each morning, and taken down every evening at your beach spot!  We will text message you each day as your gear is ready for use, and can even provide iced coolers each day with your setup.

If you prefer to visit one of our 4 local store locations, no problem! Stop in and checkout the gear for yourself at on of our rental centers, located in the Corolla Light Town Center, in the Village of Duck, on the Kill Devil Hills bypass (serving all of Kitty Hawk and Nags Head), and down on Hatteras Island, located in Avon, right next to Outer Beaches Realty.  

Staying in the 4x4 area of the northern beaches near Carova? No problem again, just let OAR handle the delivery to the off-road area for you, or pickup your gear at our Corolla store and save money!

Planning an incredible beach wedding, or even a casual back-yard oyster roast? Let the staff at OAR bring their local knowledge and help you do it right! OAR’s wedding and event division is located in our Kill Devil Hills showroom, and offers tables, chairs, tents, dishware, linen, and so much more to make your party incredible!

Event items can be seen at www.OARevent.com or call toll free at 888-627-3836.

Summer Hours

Monday – Thursday: 8am–6pm
Friday – Sunday: 8am–7pm


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Corolla
252-453-2440
Duck
252-261-4346
Kill Devil Hills
252-441-7823
Avon
252-995-5868
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*Off-season hours may vary*
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  • Monday8:00am-06:00PM
  • Tuesday8:00am-06:00PM
  • Wednesday8:00am-06:00PM
  • Thursday8:00am-06:00PM
  • Friday8:00am-07:00PM
  • Saturday8:00am-07:00PM
  • Sunday8:00am-07:00PM
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Brew Thru

Brew Thru

No trip to the Outer Banks is complete without cruising through Brew Thru, the Outer Banks’ original drive thru convenience store. Whether you’re looking for a refreshing cold beverage of Coke, Pepsi and other soft drinks on the go, stocking up your cooler with refreshments to enjoy at the beach or piling up on beer and wine for a party, Brew Thru is a fun and unique experience all vacationers need to see for themselves.

Drive-Through Beer & Gear

Brew Thru is Your One-Stop Shop at the Beach

The year was 1977, and Dana and Becky Lawrentz were chatting with friends over brews in their hometown of Akron, Ohio. They got to talking about a gas station convenience store in the area that had built a makeshift drive-through. Everyone agreed it would be pretty great if you could actually drive through a convenience store and pick up everything you needed without getting out of the car. But what would you call a place like that?

Well, you’d call it a Brew Thru.

It was an idea they couldn’t shake, so the Lawrentzes moved to the Outer Banks and built the first Brew Thru with the help of a partner. The idea was that people could come buy everything they would need for their trip to the beach—beer, wine, soft drinks, snacks, ice—without getting out of the car. That same year, a t-shirt salesman visiting the store and talked them into adding t-shirts to their product line—and 44 years later there are now more than five million Brew Thru t-shirts out in the wild.

The Lawrentzes’ daughter Brandy and her husband Philip Foreman purchased the business from them in 2002, and they now operate five locations across the Outer Banks.“We love being the one-stop shop for folks on the way to their beach house,” Foreman says. “Our car tenders are the friendliest people at the beach. We’re here to greet you, get you everything you need for your trip, load it up in the trunk for you, and have you leaving with a smile on your face.”

The store is quite expansive, featuring more than 100 brands of beer, dozens of wines and even a vast selection of cigars—not to mention all the snacks, t-shirts and other gear. To make ordering a little easier, customers in line get a menu—fondly known as the Summer-y—that outlines everything available at the store. These Summer-ies are also available in many of the beach rentals, which allows vacationers to decide what they want before driving through.

For customers who would like to get out and stretch their legs, there’s the Brew Thru Shop in Kill Devil Hills, where you can find their world famous t-shirts and other gifts. New t-shirt designs are created each year, making a yearly Brew Thru t-shirt a favorite of locals and annual visitors to the Outer Banks.

The Foremans both grew up in the Outer Banks, and they love that Brandy’s parents’ vision for a friendly and convenient place for people to grab their brews and other beach stay essentials is continuing to flourish.

“Our family has been welcoming people to the Outer Banks since 1977,” Foreman says. “We love this beautiful place, and we want everybody to get to enjoy it.”

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