Timbuck II Shopping Village

Bottom Line: A nice beachy shopping center with stores, restaurants and such. Overall, I like the Timbuck II Shopping Village. For starters, I like the beachy aesthetic. Shoppers walk along decking and boardwalks to access the shops. Also, there are different buildings within the shopping center so that adds some interest too. My favorite shops here are The Cottage Shop, Sound Feet Shoes and The Cotton Gin. In addition to shops there are also a handful of restaurants and eateries. And behind the shopping center is a race track and miniature golf course. Timbuck II includes some other business too like a massage place and a real estate office.

How could anyone give this shopping center anything but five stars!?! We all know it takes a village to make things run smoothly and that is exactly why this Village is my favorite place to spend my money in the OBX! It's obvious that every owner, manager, employee in the shopping center cares about customer service, provides good products and keeps this place neat and tidy. Even on their busiest days things seem to run smoothly around here and there is some thing for everyone and I mean some thing for everyone! You forgot a T-shirt or a jacket or you want to go race go-carts, Putt-Putt, buy some GOOD cooking Oils from Ella's, have someone package you up a magnificent crab & shrimp broil to take home and heat up, have a good cocktail, or an ice cream after dinner or some really good food "North Banks Raw Bar". You need to buy your aunt Bertha a gift for her birthday and she likes pigs sitting on the beach smoking cigars, I guarantee you you'll find it in this shopping center. Old Timey photo Session with the family, essential oils and stones to get rid of the bad juju....Plenty of parking! So don't be scared to venture into a store that you don't think is "up your alley" because I guarantee you that you will find something that will amaze and surprise you.

6/26/20We are back at Timbuck II and we will see if things have changed since we were here last. Things I have noticed is that all of the shops we visited offer/requested that you sanitize your hands upon entering their store. Masks or cover ups are required upon entering the shop keepers humble abode. The bathrooms on the shopping Center side where the fudgery is located still stinks like yesterday's diapers. The inside of the men's bathroom had a clean chemical smell along with the smell of butt...you really can't win.Granted the inside of the men's bathroom was clean, but the double smell of clean bath mixed with men's asses was too much for me. I saw when parked under the shops water had collected in one area and the smell could have been coming from there. Whatever the case is, please fix this problem.

This is a great shopping center with all the touristy shops in one location. It's still a decent amount of outdoor walking and sunshine so wear sunscreen. My favorites shoppes were the popcorn place and Just for the beach. Plenty of shoppes for souvenirs and plenty of boutiques.

I should deduct half a star for parking situation but that's not doable with Yelp!Great options to shop at!GraysCotton GinParrot HeadSouth Coast OutfittersThere's 4-6 restaurants within and several dessert shops! There's shoe stores and beach stores and apparel and wine and everything you could want to look at! If you're staying in Corolla there's no need to drive all the way south to see and shop for great items! Sunset Blvd for the WIN!

They have over 60 shops! At least that's what they advertise.What they don't tell you that there are some repeats, and about half of them sell the same touristy merchandise like shirts with seashells printed on them.There were some really good restaurants here, so I highly recommend them for that. North Banks and Mike Dianna's are both really good.There's also an arcade and the tiniest go kart track you'll ever see.I also highly recommend the beef jerky store.

If you're vacationing in Corolla, chances are you'll end up at TimBuck II before you leave. Overall they have a good selection of stores to browse through as well as ice cream and fudge if you need a treat. Check out the Cotton Gin or Michael's Gems and Glass while you're here. -1 star for the bathrooms. They're fairly disgusting at the moment. The men's room looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a long while and one stall was marked out of order. My wife says the women's room was worse with some of the toilets literally in pieces. Parking has never been as issue when I've been here. Just fix the bathroom issues and this is a solid place to take the family for the afternoon.

Good variety nice shops helpful people and good food. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The only down side was the public restrooms. They aren't maintained very well.

(Take my rantings with a grain of salt as I'm about as anti-shopping a person as you'll ever find. For me the idea of coming to place like this to "meander" around for a few hours is akin to a Bataan Death March.)Being the bad non-sheeple consumers that we are, we had never paid Timbuck II a visit even though we had stayed in Corolla three times prior. This time was different because it was in season (2nd week of June) and the thought of heading south through the ludicrous traffic in Duck was not something that I wanted to do more than I had to. Enter Timbuck II as an alternative.Honestly we didn't see very much of this place even though we came here on three different occasions during our week. Twice to Mexikind and once to Bubbie's were the primary reasons we came. After the visit to Bubbie's we hung out and walked around a little. My impression. as expected, was very much that I didn't get the appeal. It was an overcast weekday late afternoon and we stopped at the Fudgery. We would have bought something except all they had were four flavors which were all chocolate based. All other fudge I assume was sold out. Sure they had other stuff there but the pricing is just...too much.We saw a few of the outfitter-shirt-tourist crap shops and honestly there's not much any of those places are selling that you can't find at a Super Wings, for less.I have no doubt we'll be back in Corolla at some point and if it's in season a few of the restaurants provide a nice respite from the KDH-Manteo heavy tourist experience but I wasn't overwhelmed by Timmy and it sure as hell wasn't five stars. Take it for what it is. Overpriced everything where they know that by-in-large they've got a captive audience that won't make the long trek south to find cheaper-more reasonable alternatives. Let's see how this place fares when the Mid-Currituck Bridge gets built in twenty years (the lawsuits are already flying) which will give people easier access to more choices.

This is still a great place to shop at when in the area. It is like a leisurely place to just spend one of the many warm afternoons. Take your time strolling from one store to another and don't worry about the time slipping away.Great place to just kind of escape from it all. Why not, you are more than likely on vacation when you are here anyway. Take advantage of all that there is to do here. Don't feel like taking the kids with you while you shop there are many activities spread throughout that can keep them entertained until you have shopped to your heart's content. Or maybe scope out what you might want to do later and stop back without the kids.A definitely stop for when you need to get off the beach for a few hours.