Client Review on Oak Island Accommodations

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If I could give less than one star I would. Our family had planned to travel to Oak Island this year after a good visit last year. We even rented the same house (Into The Mystic). As hurricane Florence approached we thought that we should cut our losses and consider staying home but after calling OIA several times we were told by the employees, “we don’t know what will happen” and “you will be good until at least Thursday when the storm hits”. One employee even said “Listen, I have lived here for 40 years and I have survived them all.” So me my wife and my 3 year old son made the 600+ mile drive to get there. We checked in on Sunday at 3:30pm (late because our house was not clean yet) and were told that we had to be out by 4:00pm Monday. 24 1/2 hours after getting there! We would have never made the trip knowing that the first people to be evacuated are the renters and tourists. We never would have made the trip and feel that OIA should at least offer to pay travel expenses. 300$ in gas, 2 nights in a hotel and 1200+ miles on our vehicle based on their employee telling us we should come because we would at least get 4 of our 7 days. Well we barely got 1 day and spent a large portion of it moving our stuff in and shopping for the week ahead. We have been told that OIA will reach out to the owner of the house regarding a refund or booking at a later date but I would rather OIA reimburse us in some manner since it was their employee that convinced us we should make the trip despite hurricane Florence. We have yet to hear anything and don’t expect to. Don’t rent from OIA!