Myrtle Beach Hotels & Motels

After the condo boom in the mid 2000's, we saw most of the small family owned hotels in Myrtle Beach SC converted into condos. There are actually very few real hotels and motels in Myrtle Beach now. Most are individually owned condos handled by on-site rental desks or outside condo rental companies.

This website will act as a list of actual hotels in Myrtle Beach and give you a quick find for specialty accommodations like places to stay with a lazy river or indoor pool. The main difference between these inns and the condo resort is the minimum length of stay - hotels generally rent by the night or the weekend, where most condo rentals on the Grand Strand have a four night minimum stay. We do, however, have some huge five star hotels like Holiday Inns, the Hilton Hotel, and quite a few Marriotts and Best Westerns in Myrtle Beach, too.

Ever wonder what the difference is between looking for a hotel in Myrtle Beach as versus a Myrtle Beach MOTEL?

Before all the small family owned hotels were torn down and turned into the big high rise resorts we have so many of now, a good number of the places to stay along the oceanfront were technically motels! The actual definition of a motel is a low-rise inn, usually along the highway, where motorists stay for short term visits. Motels have doors accessed from the outside, and often a parking space right in front of the door. Usually they have outside public balconies or walkways with stairs to access the upper floors. Sound familiar to your old favorite in Myrtle Beach, say in the 70's?

A HOTEL is usually larger, with many floors, and the doors are accessed from the inside, along hallway corridors. Picture a traditional Marriott or Hampton Inn. With inside access, and often more than three floors, a hotel usually will have an elevator.

 

In other places, hotels usually have a big picture window that doesn't open. In Myrtle Beach, most of our oceanfront hotels and motels will all have a private outside balcony to look at the beach.

Resorts are extra large hotels or motels with more amenities, located on or around a tourist attraction such as a beach, and providing more services like room service, concierge services, valet parking, etc. While most of the places in Myrtle Beach don't go quite this far, most of the small hotels along the ocean are now Myrtle Beach Resorts, and have changed their names to reflect the difference.