Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos rates the top five area beachfronts for guests on Myrtle Beach vacations. This rating system, however, in no way gives merit to or takes merit from any area Myrtle Beach Resorts.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos is simply rating the Oceanfront area itself. Our criteria for our rating system includes:

• Traffic Congestion on highways in the area
• Beach Congestion by humans bathing on the beach itself
• Water purity ratings as reported by Government agencies
• Beach front Aesthetics (which can be subjective)

1. Huntington Beach State Park Map of Huntington Beach State Park area

Reasons: This area has absolutely no development on it at all. The beaches are private and out of the way. The natural results are uncommonly quiet and natural beaches.

Consistently the highest water quality ratings from state government agencies.

Huntington Beach State Park has little artificial lighting in the area and has no jet skis, banner planes, or near the shore ocean traffic. You will only find natural things on this Oceanfront Beach.

2.Surfside Beach from 3rd Avenue North through Garden City Beach to Inlet Point Drive

Three reasons why:

This area has few hotels and is lined with beach homes. The natural results are less congested beaches.

Consistently high water quality ratings from state government agencies.

These beaches are not as cluttered with jet skis, banner planes, and near the shore ocean traffic.

3. Myrtle Beach from 82nd Avenue North to 29th Avenue North

Reasons:

This stretch of Oceanfront in Myrtle Beach is known as the Golden Mile. It has less traffic, is lined largely with Oceanfront Beach Home rentals, and has fewer people on the beach itself.

There will be life guard stands and some vendors and a few high rise hotels, but water quality is consistently high.

Banner Planes do fly overhead in the Summer promoting products and local stores, but Parasailing and Jet Skis in this area are rare.

4. 46th Avenue South in North Myrtle Beach at Barefoot Resort

Reasons:

Private Oceanfront Beaches with largely only Barefoot Resort Customers and North Beach Plantation Customers.

Consistently High Water Quality

Barefoot Resort shuttles guests to the beach. When staying at Barefoot Resort with its shops and attractions, there is no need for a use of your car, which cuts down on Highway Traffic.

5. Oak Island, North Carolina: Oak Island Map
Reasons:

“Mayberry meets Jimmy Buffet!” Traffic in and out can be harsh on turnover days, but once there, traffic issues are mild.

Banner Planes are outlawed and the beach front is largely filled with Houses for rent. The natural results are less crowded beaches and more privacy.

The beach front atmosphere feels like the recent past, before high rises and mega anythings.

Water quality on this beach is excellent.

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.

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.

• Traffic Congestion on highways in the area
• Beach Congestion by humans bathing on the beach itself
• Water purity ratings as reported by Government agencies
• Beach front Aesthetics (which can be subjective)

With that in mind, the following are the top five beachfronts in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina listed, with a corresponding map of the area,in order with the best area beach front listed as number one.

1. Huntington Beach State Park Map of Huntington Beach State Park area

Reasons:
This area has absolutely no development on it at all. The Beaches are private and out of the way. The natural results are uncommonly quiet and natural beaches.
Consistently the highest water quality ratings from state government agencies.
Huntington Beach State Park has little artificial lighting in the area and has no jet skis, banner planes, or near the shore ocean traffic. You will only find natural things on this Oceanfront Beach.

2.Surfside Beach from 3rd Avenue North through Garden City Beach to Inlet Point Drive Map of Surfside Beach to Garden City Point

Three reasons why:
This area has few hotels and is lined with beach homes. The natural results are less congested beaches.
Consistently high water quality ratings from state government agencies.

These beaches are not as cluttered with jet skis, banner planes, and near the shore ocean traffic.

3. Tilghman Beach

Reasons: This stretch of Oceanfront in North Myrtle Beach has no highrises other than Tilghman Beach and Golf Resort .

Water quality is consistently high.

Banner Planes do fly overhead in the Summer promoting products and local stores, but Parasailing and Jet Skis in this area are rare.

4. 46th Avenue South in North Myrtle Beach at Barefoot Resort Barefoot Resort Beach Map

Reasons:
Private Oceanfront Beaches with largely only Barefoot Resort Customers and North Beach Plantation Customers. Consistently High Water Quality Barefoot Resort shuttles guests to the beach. When staying at Barefoot Resort with its shops and attractions, there is no need for a use of your car, which cuts down on Highway Traffic.

5. Myrtle Beach South Beach from 1st Avenue South to Market Common

Reasons:
“Myrtle Beach meets Charleston, SC!” While Highway 17 in this area is not alluring, traffic issues are mild and the new Market Common gives a Charelston, SC feel.
Banner Planes are allowed, but the beach is filled with Parasailing and a casual style. The natural results are active beaches with Damon’s Ribs offering Oceanfront dining. The beach front atmosphere feels like a gathering place for active and attractive young singles and families. Water quality on this beach is excellent.

Myrtle Beach oceanfront

Myrtle Beach Hotels on the South end of Myrtle Beach, SC said good-bye to Chick Ammons of the Sea Mist Resort on February 5, 2008.

For over 3 decades, Chick had seen the resort grow as it was first managed by her father Jason, then her brother Neal, and in the recent few years her nieces and their husbands.

Chick was a free Spirit who threw legendary parties at the Sea Oats and Tides pools of the Sea Mist Resorts Oceanfront area. Her friends loved her and she lived life with a full heart. She was 53 years old.

She leaves behind her brother Steve, Neal, and Neal’s ex-wife Margaret and Margaret’s two children.

In the recent past, the Sea Mist Resort has worked to convert to a property management firm like so many other Ocean Front Myrtle Beach Hotels on the South end of town. A slowing economy and a precipitous drop in the real estate market has created a slow transition period for the resort in this area. Over ninety percent of the resort is still family owned with most of the rooms, suites, and condos privately owned by the remaining Ammons family.

Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos wishes her family our condolences and the best. Chick lived a colorful life and she will be missed in Myrtle Beach. She fought a hard battle against cancer and she embody God’s grace in the last months of her time on Earth with us.

In May, most Oceanfront Myrtle Beach hotels change gears and welcome a new season and a new audience of visitors.

May is a month that continues to welcome Myrtle Beach golf vacationers, but as they begin to wain at months end, the downtown roar of Harley engines and the ying ying of import motorcycles take full stage.

May weekends are welcome retreats for families that arrive from drive traffic areas including Spartanburg, Greenville, Raleigh, Winston Salem, Carey, Fairfax, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Columbia. These in and out guests, who freguently visit more than 4 times each year, fondly call Myrtle Beach home.

Myrtle Beach Hotels typically start seeing rates rise on the Oceanfront in May. Myrtle Beach restaurants can have waits that run as long as one hour on Saturday evenings in May and the oceanfront beaches start to find blankets and towels sprawling across the shore every weekend.

Baby boomers, who take to their bikes, love to load up and eat up in places like Damons Grill. Times are still slow and easy in May and people just seem more connected.

This is one of our best months on the beach. It’s a fun month to visit and a fun month to be on God’s earth. It’s May and every year, it’s special.

Myrtle Beach Hotels

Since the mid 1990’s their customers have more and more trended to the internet, however. With rooms at area Myrtle Beach Hotels nearly doubling in development over the past few years, the competition for customers is fierce. Many area Myrtle Beach Hotels lowered prices in the hopes that this would drive in more business.

Lower prices worked at first, until tha advent of sites like Trip Advisor, Myrtle-Beach.com, Google, and Yahoo! began allowing guests to rate their experiences at Myrtle Beach hotels online.

Information flowed freely and consumers began to check with customer rated internet sites before reserving. With that, the more slick brochures hotels in Myrtle Beach mailed, the more traffic each mailing drove to the internet. Customers are now actually going to the internet to research hotels before they reserve.

Questionable Oceanfront Hotels in Myrtle Beach, SC have begun to find a new and powerful deceptive tactic to counter the power of the internet in the peak reservation months of January, February, and March. Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos now have recorded evidence that these Myrtle Beach Hotels with consistently bad reviews, are posting their own reviews on the internet disguised as customers. Former employees have remarked that they were asked to pull actual customer records, create a customer profile in their own customer’s name, and then sign in on sites like Trip Advisor posting a positive review on their own hotel.

Why would questionable Myrtle Beach Hotels do this?

• It gets negative customer written reviews off of page one researches.
• It gets the hotel in question a better overall average star rating.These websites have only honorable intentions and are certainly not at fault here. Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos is now making the following sites aware of these practices.

We appreciate the hard work these sites do. As Myrtle Beach, SC is a top national destination and as we wish to assist in maintaining customer integrity, we suggest they only allow customers to write reviews once they have received, by mail, a password. This practice would create integrity and eliminate all false postings immediately.This would also make many unsuspecting people in America aware that their name has been posted on the world wide web without their knowledge or approval by the unethical business practices of a few questionable Myrtle Beach Hotels.

How can I know if a posting is real or created by a Myrtle Beach Hotel?Look for flowery adjectives and unusually advertising oriented remarks about the hotel. Customers don’t actually write like that. You can also look for perfect scores on a hotel that has otherwise received numerous poor reviews.

Here are two obvious examples of bogus reviews: 5 stars?, Reviews written by competitors? Notice the difference between these two reviews at the bottom of this Trip Advisor page. Now notice them in context to a whole page of reviews: Notice which are the obvious false reviewsMost customer reviews that are real are written in reference to customer’s experiences and not related to the hotel management’s perspective in any real way.Here is an example of what to look for in general when the page is full of actual customer reviews:
Notice the variety of reviews but the overall consistent ratings

Please note that Myrtle Beach Hotels and Condos have no ownership or affiliations with either of these two Myrtle Beach Hotels.

Additional tips There are very few proprietor owned Myrtle Beach Hotels on the Oceanfront in Myrtle Beach,S.C. since the 1970’s. 89% of all Myrtle Beach Hotels are individually owned condos managed by a property management firm.

Myrtle Beach Hotels like the all new Oceanfront Sandy Beach Resorts Hotel are rare and exceptional. The Sandy Beach Resort opened its doors to its new Oceanfront Condos Towers in November 2007. Offering one bedroom, two bedroom, and three bedroom oceanfront condos, Sandy Beach Resort features an elegant lobby experience and premium luxury Myrtle Beach vacations.

The location of Sandy Beach Resort Hotel really helps the property as well. Located right at the Family Kingdom Amusement park, Sandy Beach Resort is one of the closest Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels to the all new Hard Rock Theme Park.

Hard Rock Park opens in May 2008. A drive from Hard Rock Park to the Sandy Beach Resort is a snap. Just take George Bishop Parkway North to the 501 East exit. Heading east on 501, take the 3rd Avenue South extension exit on your right. Follow this road to where it ends on Ocean Boulevard. The Oceanfront Sandy Beach Resort will be directly ahead on your left on Ocean Boulevard.

At the oceanfront resort, your Myrtle Beach vacations can include Myrtle Beach Parasailing Oceanfront, Oceanfront Jet Ski Rentals, and an opportunity to ride a Myrtle Beach legend in the Swamp Fox Roller Coaster. The Swamp Fox is one of the few remaining woodie Roller Coasters in America.

Myrtle Beach Hotels Oceanfront

If your family is looking for one of the highest rated Myrtle Beach Hotels with suites on the South Carolina coast, we suggest you look no further than the Best Western Grand Strand Inn and Suites. With its fabulous outdoor courtyard pool, oceanfront area pool, indoor pool, and lazy river ride, Best Western Grand Strand Inn and Suites is a trusted name throughout the world.

The Best Western Grand Strand Inn and Suites is also one of the few family owned Myrtle Beach Hotels on the Grand Strand. Click here and see for yourself what google tourists on Myrtle Beach Vacations think of this Oceanfront Resort property.

Suites run the gamet from Oceanfront Myrtle Beach penthouses, to Oceanfront Condo suites, to standard bedrooms. Every room choice is a guaranteed winner.

Among the Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Hotels in the downtown area, the Best Western Grand Strand Inn and Suites continues to rank as among the best.

To reserve this Myrtle Beach hotel today, visit Best Western Grand Strand Inn and Suites.

Shore Crest Villas is a North Myrtle Beach resort built in 1985 at the onset of the condo boom in North Myrtle Beach.

This Resort in North Myrtle Beach featured largely one and two bedroom condos. When the Shore Crest Condos were orginally built condos in Myrtle Beach were rare. Most Oceanfront properties consisted mostly of Hotels owned by a single owner.

Shore Crest Villas were built to compete in this market and the concept was very successful.

Today with the construction of Avista Resort, Ashworth Condos, and Barefoot Resort, the Shore Crest Villas seemed oddly dated and no longer hold the appeal they held over 20 years ago. Many of the original homeowners sold their Shore Crest Condo and upgraded to a newer design as these were built.

Shore Crest Condos are located on 4709 South Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach.

In Summary: We rate Shore Crest Villas as a solid, but dated product. Well constructed and well kept, these Oceanfront Condos are ideal for couples and small families that are willing to accept a dated design and interior. For the price, these condos are rated an acceptable buy, but not a value.