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.

Myrtle Beach Hotels in downtown Myrtle Beach run North to South from Lake Arrowhead road to the Myrtle Beach State Park.

Within these different areas are neighborhoods that have varying degree of subtleties your family may want to consider when taking Myrtle Beach vacations. Our aim here is not to get into details about Myrtle Beach resorts, but rather the various different neighborhoods where these Myrtle Beach resorts are found and what your family can expect overall in these neighborhoods.

We start with the Northern most Myrtle Beach Hotels neighborhood and run South:

Reputable Myrtle Beach Hotels will not rent to adults under the age of 25 as a rule. As most Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels are property managed, homeowners who own the individual condo, usually do not want younger guests having parties in their rooms.

There are a few Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Hotels that do rent to teenagers on Spring Break, however, and often at perilious costs to the guests and the hotel itself. Hotels, like the Poindexter Resort in downtown Myrtle Beach, SC, who have a history of renting to teenagers often find the Myrtle Beach police regularly dropping by the hotel responding to calls.

Spring 2008 saw one drunken Charlotte, NC teenager falling from the tower at the Bay View Resort.

As portrayed in the “Girls Gone Wild” infomercials aired late night on cable, Spring Break can be a raucous time. Mix alcohol, drugs, teenagers, and a beach and there is sure to be trouble. Myrtle Beach, for the most part is not known to attract Spring Break teenagers and college students like Daytona Beach, Cancun, Mexico or several other Florida area beaches.

Myrtle Beach is primarily known as a family beach and high end resorts like Barefoot Resort in Myrtle Beach will only take families and golfers. In fact only a few Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Resorts are known to take Spring Break students.

Myrtle Beach has been blessed to have so few accidents and trouble over the past 50 years. With its family oriented reputation, few Spring Break students find the area attractive.

City fathers and City Officials continue to work hard to keep the area family oriented and family friendly.

The Dayton House is one of the few remaining Myrtle Beach family owned oceanfront hotels in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Of the over one hundred Myrtle Beach Hotels in the downtown region, Dayton House consistently has the highest positive customer written reviews on Google.

While you can find other Myrtle Beach hotels with a lazy river, and also, other Myrtle Beach Hotels with an indoor pool, the Dayton House’s customer service really sets it apart. Ask any of the hotel’s repeat customers, as they rave about this hotel online every day.

The Dayton House also features the downtown area’s most elaborate Oceanfront lawn with cascading umbrellas. Guests love to soak up the sun here. The Dayton House is an excellent place to relax. Myrtle Beach family vacations at the Dayton House have been a cut above now for several generations of ownership.

With an eye for detail and a personal approach to visitors, it is apparent that this family cares about families on vacations in Myrtle Beach.

What’s more, the location of the Dayton House is second to none. The most sought after Myrtle Beach attractions, including Broadway at the Beach, Coastal Grand Mall, Hard Rock Park, Hard Rock Cafe, Nascar Cafe, and Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville are all located within minutes of this Myrtle Beach Hotel.

Visit the Dayton House’s display page in the Myrtle Beach Hotels section and check out what tourists who have taken Myrtle Beach vacations with this hotel are saying. If you are considering your own vacation in Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos highly recommends the Dayton House Oceanfront Hotel.

Cheap Myrtle Beach Hotels are often searched on the web much like desperate men looking for singles on sleazy dating sites.

The trends over the past five years have been for some Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels to focus on one of two criteria when positioning themselves with their customers who are looking for Myrtle Beach vacations.

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 House Rentals have great appeal for large families or for Myrtle Beach vacations on quieter beaches with less Oceanfront congestion.

An Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Home Rental can provide space and comfort for large families of from eight to sometimes 20 people. While many Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Homes for rent do require a seven night minimum stay during the peak months of June, July and August, the appeal and privacy make the long stay worth the rental period and create highly connected Myrtle Beach family vacations.

While there are certainly many more Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Hotels than Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Beach houses in the market place, the Garden City area, Surfside Beach area, Pawleys Island Oceanfront area, Oak Island Area, and Ocean Isle Beach areas are filled with rows and rows of Oceanfront Beach Homes to rent.

The beaches near the oceanfront rentals tend to have less human traffic on the Oceanfront and many of these areas do not allow for banner planes or jet ski rentals on the Oceanfront.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos suggest you look into the Oceanfront Home rentals on our many different locations up and down the North Carolina and South Carolina coast.

We believe that visitors make informed choices when they know the history of an area and how it evolved.

Myrtle Beach Hotels that now line our shore each have unique stories, but also a blended past that can help you see where we have been and where we are now going.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina’s history is relatively new, even in New World standards.

While the S.C. coast was valued by Native Americans for thousands of years, new colonists in the 1700’s placed much higher values in port cities including Charleston, Georgetown, and Wilmington, N.C.

Port cities brought in goods from England and Europe and until 1790, England was considered home to most South Carolinians. South Carolina was largely a Tory state during the revolutionary war. Tories were pro British and actually opposed the independence movement. Because it has been seen as an unpopular and unpatriotic history, it has largely been left out of many school books.

Patriots, like Archibald Rutledge, Francis Marion, and Peter Horry, however, were South Carolinians who were fiercely loyal to the American cause. Our state was even named the Palmetto State because of a last minute, make shift fort, built near what is today Mount Pleasant, that took the best cannon blows the British could hurl and remained in tact.

As port cities rapidly grew, towns that were up river from port cities began to grow as well. Up river from Georgetown, SC was Conway, SC. River towns were the second tier growth towns in South Carolina.

After the Revolutionary War, our county was named Horry, after Peter Horry (a local officer who fought with Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox). The head of Horry County became Conway. As far as Coastal South Carolina went, the State ran up the coast from Charleston to Pawley’s Island and then went inland to Conway before heading back to the coastal areas around Southport, N.C.

The area currently known as Myrtle Beach became popular in the middle 1800s for its timber and tar resources. The Burroughs families and Collins families of Conway began a railway to haul timber and tar resources from the area out to the nation at large.

In the early twentieth century, the group teamed up with a Northern Industrialist to form the Burroughs and Chapin company. This partnership was formed as an effort to develop the Oceanfront area as a beach tourism destination.

In the 1920s, America was in the middle of an economic boom. World War I had just ended and Coastal towns in New Jersey and Florida were being developed for tourism with much success. America had served well in the war and Americans were feeling the newness and success of being a world power. South Carolina, however, was still overcoming the effects of the Civil War.

Myrtle Beach, SC’s coast was lined with a few Oceanfont beach houses for rent. Beach Homes would rent out in the Summer months. The rent included meals and the family who owned the home was right on property in the same house. These boarding homes rented rooms to several families in the same home all at once.

In the 1920’s, however, with America thinking grand, the Arcadia concept was developed. It included the Ocean Forest Hotel, a golf course (Myrtle Beach’s first), a residential development, and riding stables. The concept was forward thinking and promising. As the Ocean Forest Hotel was completed and what is now Pine Lakes Golf Course opened, the stock market crashed and America went into the Great Depression.

From 1931 until after 1945 when the second World War ended, the overall growth of Myrtle Beach was incremental.

An air force base, where the Market Commons now stands on Farrow Road, was built and a few, small hotels began to dot the landscape. Myrtle Beach was not a major tourism destination.

In the late 1940’s, Burroughs and Chapin developed the Myrtle Beach Pavilion. This area, at first, drew many South Carolinians for day trips or weekends. The Myrtle Beach Pavilion provided a carnival like atmosphere, similar to the same experienced on the Jersey shore.

The Myrtle Beach Pavilion should get much credit for the real genesis of what became today’s Myrtle Beach. In the late 1950s, Myrtle Beach Hotels began to be steadily developed. As the war ended and interstate highways were being built, I 95 opened up Myrtle Beach to a more prosperous and affluent America who wanted to hit the Suburbs and the highways. This was really the beginning of what is today, the American vacation concept.

Myrtle Beach hotel development was generally done by single family proprietorships or small partnerships. Most Myrtle Beach Hotels were located near the Myrtle Beach Pavilion area and were archaic compared to today’s standards. Names like the Wayward Winds, The Cherokee, and Apache Campgrounds played upon the common western T.V. mood of 1950s adventure in America.

In the mid to late 1970’s, the genesis of current Myrtle Beach and Myrtle Beach Hotels began to take mold. Mr. S.M Johnson began developing Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Condo Hotels. These more spacious Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels were individually sold to different homeowners and then managed by Mr. S.M. for a percentage of the rental income. Because of the way capital was raised, pre-selling each hotel room, before development, Mr. Johnson was able to build many hotels up and down the coast. Today over 60,000 of Myrtle Beach Hotel rooms are individually owned condos managed by a rental management company. Obviously the Hotels and Condos concept caught on.

Myrtle Beach Hotels recently experienced the growth of national chains in our area including upscale hotels like the Ocean Watch Marriott and Sheraton Convention Center, as well as a vast increase in budget chains moving in off the Ocean including Holiday Inn Express, Hampton Inns, Holiday Inns, Best Western, Super 8, Comfort Inn, and the Marriott at Barefoot Landing.

As more and more Oceanfront hotels in Myrtle Beach become property managed, the landscape has been forever fixed by structures that will be hard to remove, even as they age. Strong Home Owners associations will be required if Myrtle Beach Hotels are continued to be desired over the next 50 years.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos has seen many of these changes first hand. The coming of Hard Rock Park in Spring 2008 will change the landscape all over again. As the baby boom generation is now retiring in Myrtle Beach, SC, our off the Ocean landscape also is rapidly being developed. Indications are that the Internet Generations of X and Y, expect much more for much less expense. Spoiled by the access of information and free rental sites including Craig’s List, these tourists are much more informed than their parents were. These generations are much more connected with social ideas and exchanges and tend to trust one another more than the media at large. Sites like Trip Advisor, Myspace, Facebook, Utube, Myrtle-Beach.com, and Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos allow these customers to rate properties and experiences and inform other future travelers.

These changes will surely affect Myrtle Beach Hotels more dramatically than any others in the history of Myrtle Beach. As Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

As Myrtle Beach changes and grows, we at Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos are working to see that no one ever gets mislead or fooled. We hope the next 100 years proves to be our best.