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As many of you may (or may not) know, Myrtle Beach has the most acreage devoted to Golf Courses in the world. I am not a fan of golf, but my father-in-law is, and he is the type of person that...
As many of you may (or may not) know, Myrtle Beach has the most acreage devoted to Golf Courses in the world. I am not a fan of golf, but my father-in-law is, and he is the type of person that doesn't understand that it is perfectly acceptable for different people to have different likes and dislikes.
Because of this personality trait, he forces my husband and I to play golf with him every time we visit him in Myrtle Beach. Which would be an enjoyable way to spend a day if:
1) we liked golf
2) he wasn't such a poor sport
As it stands, my husband and I hate golf, and my father in law is a poor sport, so the outings generally start gong downhill as soon as we pull into the parking lot.
This is a farily nice golf course. Reasonable rates, decent course. I can't tell you anything more about it because I have a limited understanding of the different finesses that a golf course can have. As I can see, it has holes, and grass, and some hills, and I think that makes for a perfectly acceptable golf course in my book.
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If you're not up to walking around downtown (which can be a hassle, especially when the pavement is so uneven), and if you don't feel like riding in a carriage with horse poo perfuming you with...
If you're not up to walking around downtown (which can be a hassle, especially when the pavement is so uneven), and if you don't feel like riding in a carriage with horse poo perfuming you with every step, Doin' The Charleston Tours is just for you. You ride in a little mini-van of sorts that has large windows and the tour operator speaks into a microphone so everyone can hear.
You see all the sights and they even stop to let you out a few places to mingle around.
Perfectly fine tour. Do not believe that one has not "properly" experienced Charleston if one does not ride around in bumpy carriages for hours. Automobile tours are perfectly acceptable and actually make the locals happy because those dang carriages are so slow and really hold up traffic
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Carriage tours are always fun unless you're a local who is driving to an appointment and find yourself stuck behind the damnable things.
Tours are informative and interesting. You'll learn so...
Carriage tours are always fun unless you're a local who is driving to an appointment and find yourself stuck behind the damnable things.
Tours are informative and interesting. You'll learn so much about Charleston history and general history of the South. Tours last approximately an hour or so, and you'll be crammed in there with about 10 other tourists as well. Get a large group together so that you can hog the whole thing.
The horses wear diaper-type things so that way they don't poop in the street.
If you happen to be downtown (anywhere the carriages go) and you see an orange ball with a flag on it laying in the street, DO NOT PICK IT UP. It is a marker that the carriage drivers toss out when the horses pee on the street so that sanitation knows where to hose down. As nifty as they look, they are NOT souvenirs.
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Charleston Place hotel is very upscale and hoity toity, and you will pay for that hoity toityness.
The rooms are nice and the hotel itself is centrally located downtown and across the street from...
Charleston Place hotel is very upscale and hoity toity, and you will pay for that hoity toityness.
The rooms are nice and the hotel itself is centrally located downtown and across the street from the City Market.
The staff can be a bit pretentious at times, and I was once asked if I was perhaps lost because I dared to sit in the lobby and wait for friends while wearing jeans and flip-flops. The staff was quite rude about the whole thing and treated me like I was a transient, rather than someone who was spending $500 per night to stay there.
That day I made my decision to take my money and my business elsewhere, as I was never informed that one must wear formal attire at all times, even during the height of summer when planning to go to the beach with friends who were staying there as well.
The restaurant located in the lobby is prohibitively expensive and the food quality is just not what one would expect when paying such exorborant prices for food. The chef, who is well known in Charleston, refuses to make any alterations to his menu. So if you don't want the etoufee, too bad. You'll get it whether you want it or not.
I cannot reccomend this hotel simply because you do not get the top-star service one would expect when paying the prices they demand for their rooms and food. Spend your money elsewhere and stay at a local bed and breakfast or Inn and that will give you a taste of true SOuthern Hospitality.
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This is a cosmetology school and the students there give haircuts and provide other services to the public while under direct supervision of an instructor.
Their services are very inexpensive and...
This is a cosmetology school and the students there give haircuts and provide other services to the public while under direct supervision of an instructor.
Their services are very inexpensive and I have to say that everyone I know who goes there consistently says that they've gotten the best haircut/hair color/etc of their life at Sakie Int'l.
Highly HIGHLY reccomended. Haircuts are only $5, and you really get a professional job done even at that low low price.
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Myrtle Beach just has to be the mini golf capital of the world. Every type of mini golf imaginable. Do you want pirates, or do you want dinosaurs? You can have pirates AND dinosaurs ON THE SAME...
Myrtle Beach just has to be the mini golf capital of the world. Every type of mini golf imaginable. Do you want pirates, or do you want dinosaurs? You can have pirates AND dinosaurs ON THE SAME COURSE if you look hard enough.
This is a decent mini golf experience. You have the ty-de-bowl blue water, the inexplicable mix of giraffes, dinosaurs, and pirates, and the impossible to make holes.
Very fun. Not too expensive. Great way to get the kids tired so you can put them to bed and go out drinking at Dixie Stampede.
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I was taken here by a family member as a way to show a "good time," so don't think I went here on my own free will.
I wonder what this family member was trying to tell me? How much they hated me?...
I was taken here by a family member as a way to show a "good time," so don't think I went here on my own free will.
I wonder what this family member was trying to tell me? How much they hated me? Was it a sneaky way of letting me know I was offically cut out of the will? I'll never know, but I do know that watching people that really only vaguely look like celebrities is not a way to spend an evening, at least in my opinion.
I think it would have been enjoyable, or a bit more enjoyable, if the performers they had looked remotely like the people they were impersonating. Slapping a blonde wig on someone does not make them Marilyn Monroe. Half of the show I sat there wondering whether the person on the stage was supposed to be Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, or someone else.
I looked more like Elvis than the Elvis impersonator did, and there were many people that I just could not figure out who they were supposed to be. The lady behind us was certain that one performer was supposed to be David Bowie, while her friend was sure it was Annie Lennox. I just gave up and drank myself into a stupor.
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Ripley's Believe it or Not has been on the Myrtle Beach strip for as long as I can remember, and in the summertime there is a line out the door for people waiting for admission.
The admission...
Ripley's Believe it or Not has been on the Myrtle Beach strip for as long as I can remember, and in the summertime there is a line out the door for people waiting for admission.
The admission price is a bit steep, and the exhibits are fun and purely cheesey. This is a fun place for kids but there are some spots where they might get creeped out by the Chinese guy with 2 pupils in each eyeball, etc.
Large selection of animals with too many legs, heads, etc.
This is something that you go to once just to go to it. If you've already been, chances are the exhibits are the same. If you've never gone, lay down the cash and just go and live the experience.
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This definitely is better than the Aquarium in Charleston which took years to build and trillions of taxpayer dollars. Charleston should have had the folks at Ripley's come in and build the...
This definitely is better than the Aquarium in Charleston which took years to build and trillions of taxpayer dollars. Charleston should have had the folks at Ripley's come in and build the aquarium, honestly.
Very wonderful exhibits and tanks just chock full of every kind of sea life imaginable. The exhibits are very colorful and the overall theme of the aquarium is of color, wonder, and adventure.
Highly, highly reccomended. Definitely worth the money, and if memory serves correct, I believe it's around $15 or so per adult for admission.
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The Myrtle Beach Pavillion is a mainstay of summertime fun in the south. I've been going there for as long as I can remember, and it's just as fun as it always was.
I believe that now you have to...
The Myrtle Beach Pavillion is a mainstay of summertime fun in the south. I've been going there for as long as I can remember, and it's just as fun as it always was.
I believe that now you have to pay admission to get into the Pavillion--in the past, it was free to walk in and you just bought tickets for the rides.
There are tons of rides and amusement park games and an arcade and they've got the carnival food and atmosphere to go along with it.
Very much fun and the reason that people go to Myrtle Beach to begin with. Highly reccomended.
only open between Memorial Day & Labour Day, I believe.
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