(NC)—COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina continues to be a hot spot for beach trip bargains. With almost 200 miles of coastline, the Palmetto State offers diversity for families and couples and parties of all shapes and sizes to take in the sun and fun year-round, with winter months an especially good time for great deals.
The best place to start the search for great deals for sun and surf is at www.DiscoverSouthCarolina.com, the state's official tourism site. Check out the Hot Deals link there for the latest deals from the coast. Other good places to surf the Net for deals are at Myrtle Beach's official tourism site at www.visitmybeach.com and Hilton Head Island's at www.hiltonhead.org. Same thing with that most charming and historic of southern destinations, Charleston, at www.charlestoncvb.com.
Myrtle Beach, of course, includes a wide range of bright lights and stage shows, inexpensive to high-end oceanfront hotels and thousands of places to eat, not to mention golf courses galore, from national championship links to more than 50 fun and elaborate miniature golf layouts.
Examples of high-end values at particularly good off-season prices include the new Island Vista (www.islandvista.com) and newly re-done Kingston Plantation. (www.kingstonplantation.com)
Charleston is an historical treasure but also the center of an area that includes a range of public and private beaches such as the county-owned beaches at Folly Beach (a particularly fun and funky place) and Beachwalker County Park right outside the gates of upscale Kiawah Island Golf Resort. Wild Dunes on the Isle of Palms also is a private resort that markets high-end stays at family-friendly prices (www.wilddunes.com).
On Hilton Head, a deliberately low-key, leafy retreat, check out deals at Palmetto Dunes (www.palmettodunes.com), for example, and off the island in the historic, laid-back Beaufort area, check out Fripp Island (www.frippislandresort.com), a family-friendly, self-contained island with a wide range of dining, condo and beachfront home, pool, golf and other offerings.
Of special appeal to moderate budgets are South Carolina's state parks. There are four on the coast: Myrtle Beach, which has campsites, apartments, cabins and a fishing pier; Huntington Beach, with campsites, a jetty and the unique Atalaya castle; Edisto Beach, with campsites oceanfront and in the maritime forest, cabins on a marsh, and miles of trail; and Hunting Island, adjacent to Fripp Island, with its cabins, camping, trails, maritime forest, fishing pier and historic lighthouse, the only one of its kind in South Carolina.
Reservations at all these parks can be made online at www.SouthCarolinaParks.com, which is the place to go for checking out the frequently updated Hot Deals link.
Source: www.newscanada.com
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