Wednesday, December 19, 2012

RV Camping in Myrtle Beach




Myrtle Beach is WAY bigger than the shore towns that I'm used to in Cape May and Wildwood NJ.  Everything is lit up and oversized or as I like to call it  "american sized".  I was shocked at the restaurants, shops and mini golf courses mile after mile.  We stayed at two locations here.  The first was Briarcliffe RV Resort.


This place was pretty much like living in a condo development, except everyone had an RV instead of a condo.  All of the RVs were beautiful.  Big with slideouts and some had matching golf carts parked along side them.  All of them way nicer than our 20 year old Southwind, and the "resort" seemed to cater to an older crowd, but full time RVing tends to do that.  Everyone was friendly, but I got more of a yuppie vibe from the people.
 The designated Pet Areas were pretty small and once Honey had peed on all the trees in this area, he was pretty disinterested in doing his business there again.  Internet, which we were told was "very slow" was $5 a day per computer!!! Really?  What century is this?  We used our Passport America membership to get a full hook up site for $22.50 during the weekdays. The discount didn't apply on the weekends so we would have to pay the winter rate of $34 sat and sun.  This was reasonable, as their winter rate on the weekends, but we soon learned that Myrtle Beach State Park was just 12 miles or so south of where we were staying which was a closer location to central Myrtle Beach.  Their winter rate was about $30 for a full hook up, so we packed all our stuff away and drove to the State Park, oh and they have free wi-fi.  Much to our delight the lovely Alaskan snowbirds behind the desk gave us an additional 25% off so we were paying the same $22.50!







Hooray! AND look at the difference!  We are just off of the beach and we can hear the ocean waves from our site at night!  We are in a park with trails and trees and nature rather than the concrete "resort" where we were before.






We can't even believe the difference! State Parks are definitely the way to go whenever possible!!



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