My family and I spent several days at Alpha and Omega and found the entire experience to be a good one...from the quick response and confirmation of our booking request, to the ease of check in, condition of house when we arrived to it living up to be exactly what the owner described it was. Alpha and Omega, has great, unobstructed, views of the sound and is a very short walk, or bike ride, from a very nice and quiet beach on the sound. This beach would be great for families with small kids as the water in the sound is calm, and no more than a couple of feet deep even several feet off shore....easy for kids to play safely...The beach adjoins Jockey Ridge park as well which features the tallest sand dunes in the east and is quite a site to see...all within walking distance from home. If you want the Atlantic ocean and that beach, it is just a 5 minute car ride, or little longer bike ride, to the other side of the island (about 7 or 8 blocks), has several public beach access areas and adequate parking. The nice thing about having the ocean and the sound to choose from is the conditions can be quite different so you can pick the best for the day...for example, one day we were there, it was very windy, a little cooler and rainy...when we got to the ocean beach, the red "no swimming" flags were flying and the blowing sand made our stay short...back at the sound beach, right by Alpha and Omega, while it was still raining a little, there was much less wind, no blowing sand and calm water on the sound....The house is well equipped for cooking, recreation and entertainment as well...Another nice thing about Nags Head and this location is there is a grocery store nearby so it's easy to get what you need without a lot of car time.....Oh yeah, if you are looking for Ice cream, about 2 miles from the house is a place called "The Spot"...nice folks, great ice cream (get the home made waffle cone), generous portions and fair prices! Finally, at the end of our visit we had the chance to meet the owner, Bill, and found him to be a genuinely nice guy and someone you would definitely want to do business with....he and his wife live only a few miles away also, which, when renting direct from an owner, is always much better than the distant owner that may not have even personally seen their rental in years....