The City of North Myrtle Beach celebrated it’s fortieth year of incorporation on Wednesday, May 7, 2008. North Myrtle Beach Hotels including Prince Resort, Avista Resort, Barefoot Resort, and North Beach Plantation were not even envisioned as possible in 1968 when the world was focused on Vietnam, The Democratic Convention, the Summer of Love, and Civil Rights was a major dividing issue.

The city featured tours to the public throughout the day and video interviews at city hall. A special ceremony was held celebrating pioneers like the Tilghman family and Brian Floyd for the many contributions they had made to the city.

City tours included City Hall, the five fire stations, the Public Safety Building, Support Services, the J. Bryan Floyd Community Center and the all new Aquatic & Fitness Center. The North Myrtle Beach memorial ceremony included the color guard, an invocation, remarks by Mayor Marilyn Hatley, and remarks by some former mayors of the City and other North Myrtle Beach dignitaries.

In the past fourteen years, North Myrtle Beach has seen an explosion in Oceanfront North Myrtle Beach Hotels and North Myrtle Beach Condo development. Properties including Ashworth, Windy Hill Dunes, Prince Resort, Laguna Keyes, Barefoot Resort, North Beach Plantation, Avista, North Shore Villas, Tilghman Beach and Racquet Club, and Ocean Drive Resort have all sprung up on what was once older oceanfront beach home rentals. The highrise hotels now dot the landscape from one end of North Myrtle Beach to the Southern most portion. Also mall development, Barefoot Landing, Tanger outlets, and 4 World class golf courses have been added to the city.

The City of North Myrtle Beach formed in 1968 when four smaller beach towns including Cherry Grove Beach, Ocean Drive Beach, Crescent Beach and Windy Hill Beach were consolidated into one larger city. North Myrtle Beach features 14.81 square miles with nine miles of Oceanfront beaches, including the Meyer Baba community that has several miles of completely undeveloped Oceanfront.

North Myrtle Beach, SC operates under a council-manager form of city government. The city statics represent 13,000 year-round residents, over 30,000 room nights from hotels, beach home rentals, and condos and receives almost 3.5 million tourists each year largely from the Northeast and Southeastern United States.

Windy Hill Dunes Resort

featuring  the finest in oceanfront North Myrtle Beach Condos.

When compared to the average hotel room,  our one, two and three bedroom condos are cheaper per person than any other oceanfront vacation.What’s more,  we offer our own fitness center, lazy river, indoor pool, private beaches, high speed internet, and an Ocean Boulevard walk over from our parking garage.

Our direct beach access is in one of the most secluded areas in South Carolina and is rated a top area beach by Myrtle Beach Hotels and condos.

We are located just North of Barefoot Landing with over 64 shops, attractions, and restaurants.

Kids will love the Coca Cola Cool zone, House of Blues, Alligator Adventure, Black Beard’s Adventure, the Monday night fireworks display and all of the activities just near Windy Hill Dunes.

Gas prices are a top concern for many oceanfront hotels in Myrtle Beach this summer. Indications are that peak weeks will continue to sell out as in the past.

Highly reputable hotels with large condos like, Barefoot Resort are seeing their hotel rooms and condo suites sell out more quickly than standard hotels.

The addition of Hard Rock Park and Market Commons will make Summer 2008 an interesting transition summer for the industries in the area. Only time will tell what long term impact these additions will have.

Most Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Hotels are now a property management concept. Individual homeowners pre-buy, from a Myrtle Beach resorts offer, one or more individual Myrtle Beach Hotel condo rooms with the promise that rentals from the Myrtle Beach resorts property management firm will cover the cost of the mortgage each month.

Because of this low cost of capital for the Myrtle Beach Hotels property management firm, most Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels now include amenities like hot tubs, fitness centers, and restaurants at the hotels on site. Since the mid 1990s, the trend has been to build Myrtle Beach Hotels with lazy river rides and Oceanfront pools that wow not only tourists on Myrtle Beach vacations, but also potential condo purchasers.

While these changes to the construction of Myrtle Beach Hotels have been good for tourists, unfortunately investors have really been squeezed by the mindset of the property managers and the over development of Myrtle Beach Hotels on the oceanfront.

Investors are putting down as much as $750,000 for condos at some Oceanfront 3 bedroom Myrtle Beach Hotels only to find the property manager renting these rooms to retailers like Hotels.com for as little as $99 per night. Many managers of Myrtle Beach Hotels are more concerned with selling on price rather on the quality of the resort’s concept.

Why is that? Because the Myrtle Beach Hotel’s manager has little invested in the property himself, yet he does have much overhead in salaries for housekeeping, front desk, reservations, maintainence, and marketing. The trend for Oceanfront property managers has been to pick up as many Oceanfront Myrtle Beach hotels as possible at seemingly low percentage rates and then fill these Myrtle Beach rentals in a volume way so as to cover overhead. At first glance, this may seem wonderful. Unfortunately, it is the individual investor that gets squeezed as his Myrtle Beach condo is beat up and he is left with no money to reinvest for room improvements at the end of each tourist season. Ultimately it is the tourist, then, who later takes Myrtle Beach vacations in this same condo that suffers.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos recognizes that these Myrtle Beach property managers are operating unethically. We will make sure that you are informed on which Myrtle Beach Hotels are being run by these volume minded operators as the seasons move along.

As these Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels age, your Myrtle Beach family vacations will need to move to better run and better kept concepts.

The Ocean Blue Resorts Hotel has now opened on 2709 South Ocean Boulevard and will rate among the best Myrtle Beach Hotels in the South Beach area of downtown Myrtle Beach, S.C.

In 2008, The South Beach area of Myrtle Beach will see the opening of the all new Market Commons which will be a luxury resort shopping complex with high end name Myrtle Beach Shops and nationally known shops. Market Commons will open on what was once the front gate of the Old Myrtle Beach air force base.

Myrtle Beach Hotels in the South Beach area have seen few new high rises built in the past 8 years. The South Beach area was well known for the Crown Reef Resort and Springmaid Beach Hotels. Ocean Blue Resorts Hotels will add a newer, fresher face to South Beach featuring upscale amenities including an elegant indoor pool, lazy river, and plush, spacious 4 bedroom/4 bath Myrtle Beach Hotel condos.

Ocean Blue Resorts Hotel opened in Spring of 2007 and was well received among tourists who took Myrtle Beach Vacations in the Summer season. As Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels go, Ocean Blue Resorts is truly a cut above. Their oceanfront condo suites are larger and sleep a greater number of guests in comfort and style. Myrtle Beach family vacations seem to be the preferred visitors at the Ocean Blue Resorts Hotel.

The South Beach Neighborhood, in front of Ocean Blue Resorts, offers Oceanfront Parasailing with Ocean Watersports and dining oceanfront at Damons Restaurant. Downwind Sails is also a featured attraction of the South Beach area.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos features information on Ocean Blue Resorts and rates it as one of our better Myrtle Beach Hotels in the South Beach area.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and, especially oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels are facing a dynamically changing new world thanks to the internet.

The mass market media era officially ended this past December and we are fully ushered into the internet marketing age where corrupt business practices are now openly exposed to customers and potential customers in advance. The awakening happened with a thunder as Sears was caught red handed placing tracking devices on its customers’ computers. The firm was fully exposed.

The Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels mass media period was truly one about economies of scale and lasted from 1948 until December of this year. The mass media period was dominated by slick brochures, display magazine purchases, billboard buys, and newspaper insertions made at critical times in peak reservation seasons. Oftentimes these purchases were more important to Myrtle Beach Hotels than concentrating on their fundamental business model.

Attractive picture brochures would be mass mailed to unsuspecting tourists who would then reserve to find much later that the Myrtle Beach Hotel was poorly run or not well kept. Upon arrival, the tourist was left with few options, as most Myrtle Beach Hotels had a policy of no refunds upon arrival.

The internet has now tipped the scales for the consumer. Sites like Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos, Trip Advisor, Google, and Yahoo now let consumers post their experiences at the Myrtle Beach Hotels they visit. This practice caught many unethical operators off guard and the subsequent Myrtle Beach Hotel Reviews have left them with a reputation that will surely hurt them as the tourist reservation season is now in full gear. Myrtle Beach family vacationers can now arrive fully informed.

The motto of Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos in fact is: “Arrive informed on Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.”

The new trend in Myrtle Beach Hotels will now be properly focused on providing honest information and quality customer service. “It should have always been this way,” said Jamie Northrup of Myrtle Beach Condos, LLC. “Many Myrtle Beach Hotels have been too focused on price and fooling the public, rather than providing a quality hotel experience. Our Myrtle Beach Condos do cost more, but the overall experience is what people are really paying for and we can not compromise the details of taking care of customers. Luxury condos should be just that!”

Customer written reviews on Myrtle Beach Hotels have put the power back in the hands of the people. Myrtle Beach Hotels & Condos sees this as only a powerfully positive direction for all Myrtle Beach vacations.

How to interpret Customer Written Reviews: Read customer reviews with the understanding that any Myrtle Beach Hotel can have one disgruntled guest. The true record of success or failure is the Myrtle Beach Hotel’s overall trend in reviews. If only one review is negative, ask the hotel about this when making reservations. If, however, the trend is largely negative reviews, Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos suggests you avoid that property all together. Stay with hotels who appreciate their customers and have integrity in the way they run their own property.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos suggests your family buy on quality and price, not just price alone.

Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels, like BayView Hotel, that rent to teenage guests or college students can find themselves in peril when these guests drink and make poor choices associated with underage drinking.

While many Myrtle Beach Hotels will not rent to adults under the age of 25, some who do can find the entire resort at risk.

The following is an incident reported in the Spring of 2008 by the Sun News concerning Bay View Hotel and a teenage guest who fell from the high rise hotel after becoming intoxicated.

Charlotte teen falls from Myrtle Beach hotel balcony
18-year-old told police he was intoxicated
KURT KNAPEK
The Sun News (Myrtle Beach)

A Charlotte teenager remained hospitalized Thursday, one day after falling two floors at the Bayview Motel in Myrtle Beach, according to a police report.

The 18-year-old was taken to the surgical intensive care unit of Grand Strand Regional Medical Center with serious injuries, said detective Carol Allen of the Myrtle Beach Police Department.

The teen, who told police he was intoxicated, had a crushed knee cap, bleeding in the brain, and several bumps and bruises, Allen said.

“He lost his footing and fell,” Allen said. “It could be a long road to recovery.”

Police found fingerprints and footprints on window ledges in a 12th-floor room and blood on a window ledge in a 10th-floor room at the hotel, located at 504 N. Ocean Blvd., according to a report.

The teen landed on the 10th floor, Allen said.

He is the second person to fall from a hotel this week on the Grand Strand.

A Largo, Fla., woman died Monday morning after falling from a 16th-floor hotel balcony onto a roof covering the resort’s pool.

Bonnie Hoff, 54, died Monday at the Sands Ocean Club Resort, said Horry County Coroner Robert Edge.

She was found by a hotel guest, who alerted hotel security, authorities said.

The investigation into what caused her fall is ongoing, Sgt. Bob Carr of the Horry County Police Department said Thursday.

Guests consistenly choose the Caravelle because of its outstanding rooms, guest services, and amenities including:

• Indoor/Outdoor pools
• Kids’ Wild Water Pool
• Daily Kids’ and Family planned activities
• Concierge Services
• Marco Polo Pool Bard and Grill
• Liquids Coffee and Martini Bar
• Indoor/Outdoor Heated Whirlpools
• Lazy River Rides
• Conference Facilities
• Poolside Ice Cream and Sandwich Shop
• Free Wireless Internet Access

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos finds Caravelle to be an excellent atmosphere for golfers and families. The location is great the staff friendly and well informed. Your family will find the condos, suites, and hotel rooms are well kept.

Things to know about Caravelle Resort Hotels & Villas:

Type of Myrtle Beach Hotels: Hotel Efficiencies, Suites, and Condos.

Ownership: These Myrtle Beach Hotels are a property management firm. Each individual room is privately owned and managed by the Caravelle.

Location: Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos rates the location of Caravelle Resort Hotels & Villas as excellent. Coming in on the Highway 22 expressway and taking the south Myrtle Beach exit, you will find this hotel on 6900 North Ocean Blvd. The beach here is uncrowded and highway traffic in and out is not a problem. The general location is called the Golden Mile/Dunes Section. It has been named so because the beach here is well preserved and lined with private homes, just a few miles South of the resort itself. In fact, Hotels and Condos rates this beach area as among Myrtle Beach’s 5 Best Oceanfront Beaches.

Caters to: Caravelle Resort Hotels & Villas caters to golfers, convention guests, and families on Myrtle Beach vacations.

Recommendations: The Caravelle Hotels and Villas are a great value and offer much more than your average Myrtle Beach Resort property.

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Myrtle Beach family vacations mean different things to different families. For some families, it’s just making a wise choice from among many oceanfront hotels in Myrtle Beach or a quiet beach and a choice among many Myrtle Beach Beach Houses. Once the hotel or home rental purchase is made, some families feel their Myrtle Beach vacations plans are fulfilled.

For others, however, Myrtle Beach family vacations are about making a choice that involves shopping, Myrtle Beach attractions, an ideal Oceanfront location, Myrtle Beach restaurants, and Myrtle Beach golf courses all in one resort experience. Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos evaluated over 3 area Myrtle Beach Resorts that offered these different components to come up with the one location that we felt offered a true Myrtle Beach resorts experience.

The criteria that we looked to measure area Myrtle Beach Resorts included:

In a fly over, it is quite obvious that Garden City Beach South Carolina is an Island largely cut off from the land mass that is America, by the Intracoastal Waterway.

While its contemporary towns of Cherry Grove Beach and North Myrtle Beach have gone highrise with concrete and steel Myrtle Beach condo resorts, Garden City is largely made up of single family Oceanfront Beach Homes.

The one lane road that runs up and down Garden City has a hot dog stand on one end and a quaint marina on the other. Couple with Sarah J’s fried seafood restaurant, it would not be hard to imagine this town as Mayberry on the beach.

Sam Scalise, a local builder, moved into town in the early 1990s and began building the highest quality Oceanfront Beach homes in our area. The homes are brand new and assure that the town will keep its charm as Homeowners will not be selling out to huge developers.

These Oceanfront single family beach homes sleep from 8 to 16 family members in elegant style. For this reason, families in the know are choosing Garden City for a laid back vacation in Myrtle Beach.

The lack of a major Myrtle Beach Resort is probably the main reason for Garden City’s success. Outside of the King Fisher Inn and the A Place at the Beach Condos, which were both built in the 1980s, there really is no highrise clutter on the Garden City Point.

If you are looking for a 1960s beach to call your own, have a look at Garden City Beach.