76. Garden City Realty Inc.
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (800) 395-5930, (843) 651-2121
Address: 608 Atlantic Ave.
Description: Staying in its own neighborhood, this company handles about 555 rental properties in the Garden City Beach and Surfside Beach areas. Garden City Realty offers one-, two-, and three- bedroom condos, homes, and oceanfront beach houses. Most units sport pools, and some offer hot tubs. In mid-July a three-bedroom condo starts at $1,340 per week; a six-bedroom oceanfront home, $7,700.
77. Surfside Realty
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (800) 833-8231, (843) 238-3435
Address: 213 South Ocean Blvd.
Description: If you’re looking at Surfside Beach or Garden City Beach as your vacation destination, this company maintains nearly 500 apartments, condos, duplexes, cottages, and houses. This company has been arranging vacations since 1962 and has a strict policy of booking families only. Golf packages can also be arranged through Surfside Realty. During the summer a one-bedroom apartment rents for $600 to $1,000 per week, and a house with a pool runs about $2,800 to $5,700. Special off-season discounts apply from post–Labor Day through May.
78. The Chesterfield Inn
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (866) 213-9534, (843) 448-3177
Address: 700 North Ocean Blvd.
Description: Sitting in the heart of Myrtle Beach, the Chesterfield Inn is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally built in 1926, the inn is a gentle oasis in the midst of this busy section of the beach. There are 52 rooms available. Family operated, it is located right on the beach and has a pool on the premises
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Address: 407 71st Ave. N., Myrtle Beach
80. Litchfield Plantation
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (800) 869-1410, (843) 237-9121
Description: At the end of a quarter-mile avenue lined with live oaks draped in Spanish moss, you’ll find the stately Litchfield Plantation Manor House (circa 1750). The home overlooks fields where Carolina long-grain rice flourished in the early 1800s. The inn tariff includes lodging in one of the four gracious rooms, a daily full breakfast, use of the private heated pool and cabana, a private beach club at Pawleys Island, on-site tennis courts, and access to the award-winning, on-site Carriage House Club Restaurant. The Plantation boasts additional suites and villas for a total of 35 rooms and suites to accommodate couples, families, and small groups. Nonsmoking rooms are available. Litchfield Plantation is a member of the prestigious Small Luxury Hotels of the World Society.
81. Blockade Runner Motor Inn
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (843) 249-3561
Address: 1910 North Ocean Blvd.
Description: On the oceanfront in the popular Ocean Drive section of North Myrtle Beach, the Blockade Runner offers 72 two-bed units, including efficiencies, all overlooking the ocean. In addition to an oceanfront pool and kiddie pool, guests can also enjoy the Jacuzzi and a delicious meal in the on-premises restaurant, the Sea Oats Cafe. The restaurant is open from 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. every day, and from 5 to 9 p.m. in the summer months. Golf specials are offered from Labor Day through June 1.
82. Driftwood On The Oceanfront
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (800) 942-3456, (843) 448-1544
Address: 1600 North Ocean Blvd.
Description: The Driftwood prides itself on being one of the beach’s first oceanfront hotels, opening its doors almost eight decades ago. Back then, it was a group of oceanfront cottages, and today it offers three modern buildings in that same location. All of the 90 accommodations at Driftwood have updated furnishings as well as refrigerators and microwave ovens, whether you’re staying in a room or efficiency unit. Just 6 blocks from the arcade area, this hotel offers two outdoor pools.
83. The Seaside Inn
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (800) 433-5710, (843) 272-5166
Address: 2301 South Ocean Blvd.
Description: The Seaside Inn is a recently renovated condominium complex that has been transformed into a luxury boutique resort. There are 69 spacious, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, each with an ocean view. They include all the comforts of home: full kitchens, dining rooms, washer/dryer, a Jacuzzi tub, and high-speed Internet access. Most rooms include a continental breakfast in the resort’s restaurant. There are two pools on-site, a lazy river, two hot tubs and a state-of-the-art fitness facility.
84. Compass Cove Oceanfront Resort
City: Myrtle Beach, SC
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (800) 331-0934, (843) 448-8373
Address: 2311 South Ocean Blvd.
Description: Located near the center of Myrtle Beach, the famous Compass Cove Oceanfront Resort has more than 530 luxurious units, including one-, two-, and three-bedroom condominiums and 720 feet of oceanfront beach. Compass Cove is one of the area’s largest resort hotels and offers such amenities as 22 pools, including 6 indoor and outdoor pools, 3 indoor and outdoor lazy rivers, Jacuzzi hot tubs, and kiddie pools. A variety of golf, entertainment, and family packages are available.