Charming OBX Soundfront Home with Hot Tub & Kayaks
Entire cottage in Frisco, North Carolina
- 6 guests
- 3 bedrooms
- 4 beds
- 2 baths
Hosted by Amanda
- Superhost
- 3 years hosting
Listing highlights
Top 5% of homes
This home is highly ranked based on ratings, reviews, and reliability.
On the Pamlico Sound
Soundfront on the Pamlico in the quiet Brigand's Bay neighborhood, known for kayaking and birding
Private hot tub on the sound
A private hot tub for up to four, open year-round with views over the sound at sunset
A stay guests keep coming back to
Guests highlight how thoughtfully stocked the home is, with many calling it the best rental they've stayed in
Totally renovated single-level elevated beach box on the shores of the Pamlico Sound. Professionally decorated spaces with all-new appliances, generous amenities, and breathtaking sunsets. Peaceful cul-de-sac setting in the popular Brigand's Bay neighborhood. Best Box is a rare jewel in the OBX rental market: a waterfront home with abundant recreational features designed specifically for couples and small families. We hope you feel appreciated the moment you arrive.
The space
Best Box is relatively new to the OBX rental market - we just opened our doors in 2023 - so we're gradually gathering reviews from our guests. Please check out our additional exceptional reviews on VRBO (we're property number 3211134).
Our family has vacationed on Hatteras Island for decades, and we’ve filled our home with the features we always valued.
Inside, our Game Room offers a full-sized Kick Triumph foosball table, a regulation dart board, and a flat-screen TV to catch the game. Our Living Room boasts a 65-inch flat-screen TV with Roku streaming and HDMI ports, a cozy electric fireplace, a high-quality radio with Bluetooth speaker, and a spacious sectional for family movie nights. For those blissful indoor days, we've shared our novels, short stories, cookbooks, magazines, board games, puzzles, coloring books, and art supplies.
Outside, we offer four kayaks (two single and two fishing), two inner tubes, a fish-cleaning table, a custom charcoal grill station, a spacious outdoor shower enclosure, and a 70-foot boardwalk for fishing, lounging, and dipping your toes in the sound. Toss our frisbees, fly our kites, flaunt your impressive cornhole game, and express yourself with sidewalk chalk. We have comfortable Adirondack chairs for soaking in the rays, a hot tub/spa for sunset happy hour, a sheltered hammock for breezy summer days, and a telescope for stunning Milky Way nights.
Headed to the beach? We offer six aluminum beach chairs, a beach umbrella, two boogie boards, two skim boards, and a paddle ball set. A quick 10-minute drive takes you to Frisco Beach, our most popular public beach with ample parking, easy access, clean restrooms, and outdoor showers.
Like to cook? We've built a kitchen just for you! Enjoy our bright and spacious open-plan kitchen with sound views, granite countertops, quality appliances, reliable knives, and a full range of baking pans. If you’re the sort of cook who packs six weeks of food for a one-week vacation (same...), we offer a spacious refrigerator with a freezer drawer, a generous open pantry with sliding shelves, and a multi-tier spice rack. If you’re the sort of cook who shops daily for fresh ingredients, Best Box is only 10 minutes from Buxton Seafood, Conner’s Supermarket, and the ABC store. Bon Appetit!
Hate to cook? Lucky you! A quick drive to Buxton or Frisco scores you early-morning apple uglies, splendid cappuccinos, full southern breakfasts, doughy pizza, enormous subs, fresh-caught local seafood, delectable sushi, award-winning fish tacos, mouthwatering ribs, decadent fudge, and hand-dipped ice cream. Really - if you’re not in a food coma, are you even on vacation?
Feeling sleepy? Each of our bedrooms comes with a quiet, balanced ceiling fan, a comfortable desk, a full-length mirror, double night stands, easily accessible power outlets, window blinds, beautiful art, a flat-screen TV with Roku streaming and HDMI ports, and clear views of the sound. Our beds have high-quality memory foam mattresses made up with luxury microfiber sheets and plush cotton quilts. We hope you sleep soundly, wake joyfully, and lounge blissfully.
Guest access
You'll have the entire home to yourself.
Other things to note
Best Box is a charming soundfront cottage that hasn’t forgotten her roots. She is, after all, a modular beach box: built in a factory, trucked down the highway in halves, lifted onto piles, and bolted together right down the middle. A house with such humble beginnings is lucky to be here, right on the shores of the Pamlico Sound. She’s full of antique furniture, all of it lovingly refinished and happy to share its story. Her white paneled walls are covered with art, much of it hand-made, purchased from local artists, or borrowed from our family home. Best Box is eager to share some of her firsts, too: first picture windows, first dishwasher, first soundfront boardwalk, and first time opening her doors to Outer Banks visitors! Truly, she's the Best Box.
The space
Best Box is relatively new to the OBX rental market - we just opened our doors in 2023 - so we're gradually gathering reviews from our guests. Please check out our additional exceptional reviews on VRBO (we're property number 3211134).
Our family has vacationed on Hatteras Island for decades, and we’ve filled our home with the features we always valued.
Inside, our Game Room offers a full-sized Kick Triumph foosball table, a regulation dart board, and a flat-screen TV to catch the game. Our Living Room boasts a 65-inch flat-screen TV with Roku streaming and HDMI ports, a cozy electric fireplace, a high-quality radio with Bluetooth speaker, and a spacious sectional for family movie nights. For those blissful indoor days, we've shared our novels, short stories, cookbooks, magazines, board games, puzzles, coloring books, and art supplies.
Outside, we offer four kayaks (two single and two fishing), two inner tubes, a fish-cleaning table, a custom charcoal grill station, a spacious outdoor shower enclosure, and a 70-foot boardwalk for fishing, lounging, and dipping your toes in the sound. Toss our frisbees, fly our kites, flaunt your impressive cornhole game, and express yourself with sidewalk chalk. We have comfortable Adirondack chairs for soaking in the rays, a hot tub/spa for sunset happy hour, a sheltered hammock for breezy summer days, and a telescope for stunning Milky Way nights.
Headed to the beach? We offer six aluminum beach chairs, a beach umbrella, two boogie boards, two skim boards, and a paddle ball set. A quick 10-minute drive takes you to Frisco Beach, our most popular public beach with ample parking, easy access, clean restrooms, and outdoor showers.
Like to cook? We've built a kitchen just for you! Enjoy our bright and spacious open-plan kitchen with sound views, granite countertops, quality appliances, reliable knives, and a full range of baking pans. If you’re the sort of cook who packs six weeks of food for a one-week vacation (same...), we offer a spacious refrigerator with a freezer drawer, a generous open pantry with sliding shelves, and a multi-tier spice rack. If you’re the sort of cook who shops daily for fresh ingredients, Best Box is only 10 minutes from Buxton Seafood, Conner’s Supermarket, and the ABC store. Bon Appetit!
Hate to cook? Lucky you! A quick drive to Buxton or Frisco scores you early-morning apple uglies, splendid cappuccinos, full southern breakfasts, doughy pizza, enormous subs, fresh-caught local seafood, delectable sushi, award-winning fish tacos, mouthwatering ribs, decadent fudge, and hand-dipped ice cream. Really - if you’re not in a food coma, are you even on vacation?
Feeling sleepy? Each of our bedrooms comes with a quiet, balanced ceiling fan, a comfortable desk, a full-length mirror, double night stands, easily accessible power outlets, window blinds, beautiful art, a flat-screen TV with Roku streaming and HDMI ports, and clear views of the sound. Our beds have high-quality memory foam mattresses made up with luxury microfiber sheets and plush cotton quilts. We hope you sleep soundly, wake joyfully, and lounge blissfully.
Guest access
You'll have the entire home to yourself.
Other things to note
Best Box is a charming soundfront cottage that hasn’t forgotten her roots. She is, after all, a modular beach box: built in a factory, trucked down the highway in halves, lifted onto piles, and bolted together right down the middle. A house with such humble beginnings is lucky to be here, right on the shores of the Pamlico Sound. She’s full of antique furniture, all of it lovingly refinished and happy to share its story. Her white paneled walls are covered with art, much of it hand-made, purchased from local artists, or borrowed from our family home. Best Box is eager to share some of her firsts, too: first picture windows, first dishwasher, first soundfront boardwalk, and first time opening her doors to Outer Banks visitors! Truly, she's the Best Box.
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Where you’ll be
Frisco, North Carolina, United States
Neighborhood highlights
Best Box is located in the popular Brigand's Bay neighborhood, which offers a nice blend of rental properties and year-round residences. Brigand's Bay is a quiet, peaceful subdivision for walking, bicycling, kayaking, windsurfing, crabbing, fishing, birding, and boating. Our neighborhood is also home to one of the oldest trees on the Outer Banks, and it's haunted! The Cora Tree is located in a protected area on Snug Harbor Drive. Check it out... if you dare!
Meet your host
Where I went to school: Virginia Tech
My work: Landscape Designer
My name is Amanda, and I own Best Box with my husband, Marcelo.
I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore and spent my childhood vacations on the humble beaches of Ocean City, MD. While attending college in the early 90s, I interned at Norfolk Naval Station. On the advice of a co-worker, I made a solo day trip down Highway 12 one warm spring weekend. From that moment, I was hooked - Hatteras Island is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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