Trip help: Myrtle Beach

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Originally Posted by shilala

Andrew, if you head down south a bit to Litchfield/Pawley's Island, it's missing the zoo atmosphere and is downright enjoyable. The beach population is thin enough to where it's perfect. Tons of room for everyone.
There's easy access to run up to Murrell's Inlet, which is downright cool. You can always run up the coast and thrust yourself into the human zoo any time you want, it's not a big drive.
The prices of food and lodging are much better, and you can find a really nice room on the beach for under a hundred bucks a day. It's quiet, you can dig the wildlife and grass flats, and avoid the brain-numbing bustle of Myrtle Beach proper.

It depends what you like, I suppose. Myself, I wouldn't do it any other way. My buddy takes the kids up north and they seem to like that, but he's not tried it down south yet. I've seen his beach pics and I'd be a nervous wreck, afraid to lose the kids.
The two places aren't far apart, but they really are two whole different worlds.

Thanks Scott I will have to look this up when I get home. How is the environment there for 25 year olds without kids? We do enjoy relaxing on the beach but would also like somewhat of a bar/ night life scene. I should have stated that we do not have any kids so that might change some opinions. We went to Myrtle Beach for our honeymoon a couple of Mays ago and really enjoyed it. We stayed off the beach at my uncles time share at the Sheraton resort. During the end of our stay was biker week so i have seen that place get crazy. We plan to go around the end of August so it will be toward the end of the season and not quite as busy(we hope).

We are not huge beach fans, we like to go and watch and get in for a couple minutes at a time. We found that there were plenty of public beach locations between north myrtle and the main part. This is part of the reason we only want to stay on the beach a night or two. The wife really liked Broadway on the beach as we could go to one spot and do lots of different activities. We like the idea of being able to walk over to see a movie, putt-putt, eat dinner and have a couple drinks than walk back to the room.

Originally Posted by the jiggler

Also, I would say go to Charleston for a day. Do one of the buggy tours. Go to Market Street Sweets and get a Praline. They are to die for. It's about an hour drive south.

Thanks for the tip, I will have to research this a little more and see if we might make the trip.