I plan to stay at the Landmark Resort in Myrtle Beach in a few weeks. Has anyone stayed there before and if so, do you recommend staying there?

I was planning a trip to MB and made reservations at the Landmark. My friend was just visiting ther and suggested we stay somewhere else. The camelot or Atlantis. I changed. Heard it was a bit older who knows

Josh, we had a miserable experience at Landmark. We had looked at a sample suite the year before and booked. Got there and were shown to a dirty, smelly, truly miserable room with holes in the walls and a gaping hole where the microwave was supposed to be. Got moved to another room that was just as bad. Demanded a full refund and got it. Then set out to find a room.

Went down Ocean Blvd. to Crown Reef and got a nice suite. Have been going back to Crown Reef ever since.

My advice: bail out now. Look at Crown Reef. I hear their pools, etc. are nicer than Camelot. Don't know about Atlantis. Look at their web-site -- I think it's crownreef.com.

If you don't plan to use outdoor pools, try Patricia Grand. Their indoor pools are lovely and their suites are nice, too. We use them when we are in MB in off season when the indoor facilities are the more important ones.

~~Mary

We just returned from s. carolina, and we stayed at the landmark. It is definitely not the Ritz-carlton, but it's not bad for the money you pay. There aren't a lot of places I've been where you can get an ocean front suite for 90 bucks a night. I don't remember driving by anything that looked a whole lot better. My best advice would be to go to Charleston instead (unless you have an unusual attaction to a county fair atmosphere).

catherine,

It's a shame you chose to stay in the heart of MB, given your dislike for the *county fair* ambience.

Myrtle Beach is only part of the Grand Strand area--although admittedly the biggest and most well-known part. There are however other places along the strand that are far removed from MB, either in terms of distance or atmosphere.

I too love Hilton Head (site of our wonderful honeymoon, a few, ahem, years ago). So I think you would have been much happier staying at any of the following:

1. Kingston Plantation--not quite as exquisite as some of the HH plantations, but not far off either (located between MB and North MB).
2. Litchfield--a controlled development resort community, south of MB.
3. Pawleys Island--unbelievably uncommercialized and pristine barrier island, with a lot of class (between MB and Georgetown, and south of Litchfield).

Depening on how you're getting there and when you might consider bargaining for a room when you get there. We stayed right on the beach for a very reasonable price (I forget what exactly) because we went hotel to hotel until we got the best price. This worked for us because we were on a road trip and were willing to move on if we didn't find anyhing.

Landmark? Two words:
A dump.

Landmark? Don't do it. Nasty, Nasty and Nasty

I'm from myrtle beach. The landmark is known for not being the best place on the block. That's kinda where the "riff-raff" with some pocket cash stay.

Try the Crown Reef, or if you'd travel outside the Ocean Blvd area, stay in a beach house in Surfside.