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Old Aug 21, 2007 | 3:53 pm
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Originally Posted by cndij
Late September is definitely not "high season" for Myrtle Beach, so the hotel should only be half full if that. That should up your chances of an upgrade. Please be careful/aware of jellyfish this time of year in Myrtle Beach. I got stung really bad down there around labor day one year.
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Doesn't Myrtle have some odd "peak" seasons? I seem to recall April-May being expensive as hell, but June-July being dirt cheap. (And I think there was a secondary peak in maybe October...)

We used to do annual trips down there when I lived in DC. Being 3 to 4 carloads of 20-somethings looking to play a sh*tload of golf as cheap as possible, we always had to make the decision: do we want to go early (March), when there wasn't quite enough daylight to get in 36 holes a day, or do we want to go late (June), when it was 90+ degrees and humid?

We opted for June more often than not. Did a few trips at that time, and the whole city seemed deserted - unless we happened to hit one of the two big biker weekends. The upside was that you could usually play four-hour rounds, something that is much harder in resort towns when the courses are packed. And our travel agent would always throw in nice condo upgrades since places were pretty empty...
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