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A Few Myrtle Beach Awards:

April, 2007 - Yahoo! users rank Myrtle Beach #1 in the list of "World's Best Beaches." Link!

May 18, 2006 - Golf Digest announced its ranking of "America's Greatest Golf-Home Towns" and Myrtle Beach was selected as America's No. 1 golf-home community. The June issue stated that "the Grand Strand is literally jammed with great courses. Seven made Golf Digest's Best in State ranking and an incredible 28 carry player ratings of 4 stars or more in the 2006 Best Places to Play guide. This, plus the area's reasonable cost of living and its many playable days, gave Myrtle Beach the highest point total of all the communities we rated nationwide."

World's Tallest Sand Castle - Construction took place May 31 - June 7, 2006. An independent surveyor from DDC Engineers Inc. confirmed on June 7 that the sandcastle is indeed taller than its record-holding predecessor. The Sun Fun Festival Committee has submitted the sandcastle to Guinness World Records to officially certify and recognize the Sun Fun Festival’s sandcastle as a world record achievement.

The Travel Channel Myrtle Beach - Best Thrill Seeker Beach (2006)
.Best American Boardwalk(2004)
Best Family Beach(2003-2004)

Myrtle Beach, SC, voted high among family-vacation places
The Toronto Sun presented the Myrtle Beach area with the 2005 Golfers’ Choice Bronze Award for Best Travel Destination. Winners were selected by readers of the 200,000-circulation Canadian newspaper.

The Grand Strand was recognized in Southern Living's mid-April 2005 "Favorite Spots" edition, an annual listing
based on readers' votes.
~Myrtle Beach was the second-place winner in the "Favorite Family Vacation" and "Favorite Beach" categories.
~Brookgreen Gardens was fourth in the "Favorite Gardens" category.

Reader's Digest:
Best of America (2006) Myrtle Beach boardwalk has been named one of the “Best of America” by the editors of Reader's Digest.

USAToday: Myrtle Beach on the list of 10 Great Places to Go Coastal With Your Kids, which appeared in USA Today’s Travel section July 8, 2005.

VacationSpot, which lists condos, suites, bed-and-breakfasts and private homes available for booking online, named Myrtle Beach the Top Beach Spot for 2005. (vacationspot.com)

Meetings South Magazine: Meetings South magazine chose Pawleys Plantation, in Pawleys Island, to be among the selective “Best of the South” awards, naming the resort one of the best meeting facilities in the Southern U.S., Caribbean and Yucatan Peninsula for 2006 by readers of the magazine.

Where to Retire magazine named the Myrtle Beach area one of the 100 Best Retirement Towns in America. Editors traveled to all 50 states to compile the list. The magazine cites the Myrtle Beach area for its low cost of living and calls it one of the best beach towns in the nation. The Myrtle Beach area was named one of the nation’s top vacation spots for retired Americans age 55 and older, according to a study by tourism researchers D.K. Shifflet & Associates. The company also ranked the Myrtle Beach area No. 5 in the nation for leisure destinations.

EscapeHome.com honored Myrtle Beach as being one of the Top Ten 2nd Home Investments.

The Travel Channel has named Myrtle Beach one of America’s Best Beaches for 2003-2004. Earning 18 out of a possible 20 stars, Myrtle Beach was singled out as the Best Family Beach. A review on The Travel Channel’s Web site, discovery.com, states that “Myrtle Beach is the East Coast’s ultimate vacation hub.”

Yahoo! Travel and National Geographic Traveler magazine This recent survey of more than 2,200 travelers ranked Myrtle Beach #2 of a list of Top 10 Beaches, ahead of Waikiki and St. Thomas . Results of the survey and video highlights are posted on the Yahoo! Web site and were published in National Geographic Traveler. The qualities most important to beachgoers were cleanliness, scenery, climate, water temperature, and romance, in that order.