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Myrtle Beach’s Worst Golf Courses and Lodging Properties
Regrettably, some Myrtle Beach golf courses and lodging properties come up very short in the “quality” and “service” departments, and the Myrtle Beach Golf Association.
Basement is where you’ll find those courses and properties exposed. The MBGA Basement culminates from local knowledge, insider advisories, golfer research, and feedback from the golfers that stay in area lodging properties and play the 97 Myrtle Beach golf courses.
Myrtle Beach’s Worst Golf Courses
The Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s rankings are based upon each course’s layout, playability, challenge, imagination, beauty, pricing, actual conditions (course, clubhouse, restrooms, cleanliness, etc.), practice facilities, pace-of-play, as well as the amount of development around the course and the quality of their, food and beverage facilities. Particular emphasis and consideration is placed upon the professionalism and friendliness of the staff at each Myrtle Beach golf course.
All golf course information is updated as quickly as new data becomes available to the Myrtle Beach Golf Association. The ratings and rankings, however, take longer because they are based upon the feedback of the traveling golfers.
Since the Myrtle Beach Golf Association cannot totally rely on fast information from the traveling golfers, who e-mail their feedback upon returning home, they have recruited 40+ local golf industry “insiders” who work hard to keep MBGA.COM up-to-date.
Whereas the Myrtle Beach Golf Association is only concerned with “current conditions,” it is imperative that any submissions be dated, detailed and sent to Basement@mbga.com immediately after the issue of concern occurs. Please include a telephone number in order to facilitate prompt follow ups.
Needless to say, since it takes a preponderance of evidence and verification before any up or down movements in the ratings can take place, the Basement and Player’s Top 20 rankings change rather slowly. Of course they are always revisited and corrected just prior to the annual Myrtle Beach Spring and Fall Golf Seasons.
While the Myrtle Beach Golf Association takes great pains to make sure that all golf course rankings, ratings, reviews and assessments are as current and as accurate as humanly possible. As all of the ratings, rankings, reviews and assessments are strictly the opinions of the Myrtle Beach Golf Association and our contributors they are by their very nature subjective and should be considered as such.
Arcadian Shores Golf Club
Azalea Sands Golf Club
Beachwood Golf Club
Brick Landing Golf Club
Brierwood Golf Club
Carolina Shores Golf & Country Club
Colonial Charters/Palmetto Greens
Crown Park Golf Club
Cypress Bay Golf Club
Eagle Nest Golf Club
Heron Point Golf Club
International Club
Island Green Country Club
Lockwood Folly Countrty Club
Palmetto Greens Golf & Country Club
River Oaks Golf Plantation
Valley Club at Eastport
Whispering Pines Golf Course
Myrtle Beach’s Worst Lodging Properties
In the opinion of the Myrtle Beach Golf Association the following Myrtle Beach resorts, hotels, motels, condominiums and rental properties are considered to be unacceptable choices for golf vacations, golf packages and other lodging-related stays.
While dirty facilities – especially guest rooms - and horrible guest services are the two main areas of concern, other factors that also impact the MBGA’s assessments include on-property crime, health issues, age of the property, bait and switch pricing, under-handed refund policies, questionable advertising and accounting practices, parking problems, food service issues, maintenance problems, mismanagement, or in some cases the owners or management are simply sleazy characters.
While the Myrtle Beach Golf Association takes great pains to make sure that all lodging assessments are as current, and as accurate as humanly possible, all of the MBGA assessments are strictly the opinions of the Myrtle Beach Golf Association and are by their very nature subjective and should always be considered as such.
“Caveat Emptor – Let the Buyer Beware!”
Atlantica I, II and II
“Three doghouses!”
“Worst joints in Myrtle Beach”
“Everyone in our party hated the Atlantica”
“”Snotty staff, and dirty!”
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Bay Watch Resort & Conference Center
“Rude staff!”
“Food and trash floating in the dirty pool and lazy river. The hot tub was worse!”
“Plaster fell on us while we were sleeping!”
“Smelly”
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Best Western Carolinian
“So bad we checked out two hours after we checked in!”
“We had to park two blocks away!”
“If you like roaches, this is the place for you!”
“We had to beg for housekeeping, and the whole place stinks!”
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Boardwalk Beach Resort
"Very scary joint and neighborhood!"
"Gross, yuck, awful, etc.!"
"Wouldn't return if they paid us!"
"Rude employees would be an understatement!"
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Camelot by the Sea
“It’s painted yellow for a reason – Caution!”
“Shabby and unfriendly!”
“Camelot has gone to pot!”
“Our condo smelled like King Arthur’s smelly horse was the last guest in it!
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Coral Sands Motel
“I wouldn’t stay there again, even if that was the only way to get to heaven!”
“Roaches were everywhere!”
“A jail cell full of drunks and criminals in Tijuana is a better option than this place!”
“This is the nastiest place I’ve ever seen!”
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Court Capri Motel
“An old Mom & Pop that’s over-the-hill!”
“Two words – a DUMP!”
“Foul-mouthed old woman manager!”
“We went thru four cans of air fresheners in three
days trying to hide the stench!
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Crown Reef Resort at South Beach
“We found rat droppings throughout our unit!”
“Dirty and had a sickening smell!
“Housekeeping was awful!”
“Don’t let the fancy website fool you. This place is filthy!”
"Worst location on the Beach!”
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Ocean Park Resort
“Shabby and rundown!”
“An over-priced dump!”
“EVERYONE BEWARE – DO NOT STAY IN THIS HOTEL!”
“This is the worst hotel I’ve ever stayed in!”
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Palace Resort
"A very dirty place!"
"The pits!"
"The oder will knock you over!"
"Forget this dump!"
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Patricia Grand Resort
“The worst hotel in Myrtle Beach!”
“Smelly, peeling paint, duct-taped remote, dirty linens and rude people!”
“3 elevators, only one working!”
“Be prepared for non-stop time-share harassment!”
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Polynesian Beach & Golf Resort
"The place was a pig stye!"
"The health department should close this place!"
"Good luck finding a place to park!"
"The entire staff should be fired!"
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Reef at South Beach
"This has to be the worst motel in SC!"
"Rowdy drunks, nasty rooms and rude staff!"
"Our car was broken into in broad daylight!"
"Never, never, never again!"
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Sand Dunes Resort
“A total filth pit!”
“Do not stay, IT STINKS!!”
“Smelled like a smokestack!”
“Too unsafe – Don’t Stay Here!”
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Sands Beach Club
"The rooms were infested with cockroaches!”
“The dirtiest and most depressing resort we’ve ever been to!”
“Sheets, blanket and pillow cases dirty, (make up on pillow cases, hair and stains on sheets)!”
“Smelled like a sewer!”
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Sands Ocean Club
“Smells and has bugs!”
“The pool bar is Hooker Central!”
“The most horrible experiences I have encountered during a vacation!”
“Needs to be condemned!”
“I would rate it on the level of a Roach Motel!”
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Sands Ocean Dunes Resort
“Rat hole!”
“Absolutely DO NOT stay at this roach motel!”
“Do not stay here, Liars and Thieves!”
“Deposit not refunded on our group (over 100 Rooms)!”
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Sands Ocean Forest Plaza
“What a dump!”
“Terrible! Filthy!”
“Cold, shabby and creepy!”
"The worst of the lousy Sands motels!"
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Sands Ocean Forest Villas
“A rip-off!”
“Rundown ‘stack-a-shacks!”
“Great view, lousy condos!”
“Housekeeping? What housekeeping!”
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Sea Dip Motel & Condos
"Make that the SEA DUMP!"
"It took those bums 2 days to fix our toilet!"
"We were welcomed by an army of roaches!"
"The desk clerk was so nasty, we left without our $15 refund!"
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Sea Mist Resort
“The bed must have been a medieval torture device at some point!”
“No housekeeping for 2-days!”
“Didn’t clean the bathroom for three days!”
“In the seediest part of town!”
“This is a horrible place!”
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Tropical Seas Hotel
“To call this place ‘rundown’ would be a compliment!”
“For cleanliness – 2 thumbs down!”
“Our room REEKED of the stench of moldy carpet!”
“You can get a better room at the YMCA!”
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Voice Your Opinions Today on the “Worst” Myrtle Beach Lodging Properties!
It makes no difference whether you are a regular visitor to our area, or a first-timer, we encourage you to cast your ballots for your own nominees for the MBGA Basement lodging properties. You know, those crummy Myrtle Beach fleabags that you wouldn’t want your fellow golfers to get stuck staying in?
Simply send those “rat traps” to the Myrtle Beach Golf Association at Basement@mbga.com and we will consider them for inclusion in the dreaded MBGA Basement. Again, please provide detailed information along with any comments and any other feedback, which you may deem helpful.
