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Apartments in Myrtle Beach
Self-catered apartments and vacation rentals in Myrtle Beach, United States. Full kitchens, more space than a hotel room, and weekly rates on longer stays. Expedia surfaces apartments across Myrtle Beach's neighborhoods.
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What things cost in Myrtle Beach
Brookgreen admission runs around twenty-five dollars and is valid a week, which makes it the best value on the coast. The SkyWheel is under twenty. The Chapin Art Museum is free. Metered beach parking sits near three dollars an hour. An all-you-can-eat Calabash buffet lands around thirty; golf packages are where the money actually goes.
What to eat in Myrtle Beach
Calabash-style is the local format: seafood barely battered, flash-fried and served by the platter, named after the North Carolina village twenty miles north, and delivered through the buffet houses lining US-17. For actual cooking, cross to the Murrells Inlet MarshWalk, where Lee's Inlet Kitchen has fried the same way since 1948. She-crab soup and boiled peanuts are the Lowcountry markers here.
What first-timers get wrong in Myrtle Beach
US-17 splits into Bypass and Business and satellite navigation confuses them constantly, which turns a three-mile trip into twenty minutes. Ocean Boulevard meters run March through October. Glass containers and alcohol are banned on the beach inside city limits. Two separate motorcycle rallies fill the spring, and Memorial Day weekend books out months ahead at rates double the shoulder season.
Myrtle Beach after dark
Most visitors' evening is a theatre seat rather than a barstool. The Carolina Opry, the Alabama Theatre and Pirates Voyage run variety and dinner shows that let out around ten and shape the whole town's rhythm. Celebrity Square at Broadway at the Beach is the club cluster, and the Murrells Inlet MarshWalk puts live bands on decks over the creek.
Myrtle Beach with kids, realistically
Family Kingdom sits directly on the sand and still runs the Swamp Fox, a wooden coaster from 1966. Ripley's Aquarium anchors Broadway at the Beach, and the Grand Strand carries an absurd density of miniature golf courses, several with fibreglass volcanoes. The boardwalk is flat and stroller-friendly for its full mile and a bit. Myrtle Beach State Park has the calmest pier and nature centre.