Atlantic Coast Beach Hotels

Find hotels at beaches along the US Atlantic Coast in the links below. In this category we are including beaches from South Carolina and up. (Florida beach hotels are in the Florida Atlantic Beach Hotels and Gulf Coast Beach Hotels categories):

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Atlantic Coast Beach Hotels

Beer festival coming soon in Sneads Ferry

by admin on April 21, 2011

Like most beach towns Sneads Ferry and surrounding communities have some fun festivals. Among the upcoming events is a beer festival. We get this announcement from the TopSail Advertiser site:

On Saturday, April 30, The Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism will host a Hops of Spring Beer Festival on the Island in Surf City at the Beach House Marina. From 2 to 6 p.m. there will be eight NC breweries represented: Good Vibes Brewing Company, Wilmington; Weeping Radish Farm and Brewery, Jarvisburg; Lone Rider Brewing Company, Raleigh; Wolf Beer Company, Wilmington; Kind Beers Brewing, Charlotte; Carolina Brewery, Chapel Hill, Pittsboro; Huske Hardware House Pub and Brewery, Fayetteville; Natty Greens Brewing Company, Greensboro with 14 different brews for the discriminating palate to savor. Bald Fury will be playing that afternoon for your listening pleasure. Blankets and/or lawn chairs are suggested for comfort. Admission is $10 per person with children under 12 free.

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A starfish invasion at Pawleys Island Beaches

by admin on April 21, 2011

You never know what storms will wash up. At Pawleys Island it was starfish recently. We get this from an AP report:

The unsettled weather along the South Carolina coast has caused thousands of starfish to wash on shore at Pawleys Island.

State Department of Natural Resources Marine Division spokesman Phil Maier told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach that the starfish were likely dislodged from the rocks they usually stick to by rough seas Monday night.

Beachgoers reported starfish littering sections of the beach Tuesday, some piled on top of each other.

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Smoking ban recently enacted at Ocean City beached and parks

by admin on April 21, 2011

Ocean City has joined a number of other Altlantic Coast beach communities in banning smoking at some parks and beaches. We get this report from Delmarvanow.com:

Milton and Ocean City also recently banned smoking at public parks and playgrounds. The same laws were already in effect in Bethany Beach and Lewes.

Under the adopted ordinance, smoking is banned in most of the city’s parks and playgrounds. Officials felt that Lake Gerar was too large to prohibit smoking, so the ban is only in effect at the playground on Lake Avenue at Lakeview Street.

Contrary to the original proposal of imposing incremental fines, the commissioners chose to fine violators $25 per offense.

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Teens in Long Branch may have to pay fee to use beach in the future

by admin on April 11, 2011

Times are tough are over. We get this interesting report from a Long Branch NJ paper:

Students may no longer be able to attend city beaches for free if a City Council proposal becomes official.

Faced with a $358,000 deficit from beach operations, the council unofficially announced at its March 22 meeting that it would be raising all beach badge prices.

The council agreed at the workshop meeting that the price of a daily weekday badge will remain at $5 but the weekend daily badge will go from $5 to $7 and the seasonal badge will be raised from $35 to $45.

The council also agreed that students ages 14-17, who previously had free access to the beaches, would be charged $3 for a daily badge and $30 for a seasonal badge.

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Surf teams in SC compete a Kitty Hawk Beach

by admin on April 11, 2011

Yes, surfing is alive in well in the deep South too. We get this interesting blurb from a recent article in a local publication:

Surf shop teams from Garden City Beach, S.C., to Virginia Beach will hit the swells at Kitty Hawk on Thursday or Friday to compete in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Oakley Surf Shop Challenge.

Sweetwater Surf Shop from Wrightsville Beach, N.C., is the defending champion and will attempt to fend off the challenge of nine other teams – including Whalebone Surf Shop and Outer Banks Boarding Company of Nags Head; Coastal Edge, Wave Riding Vehicles, Freedom Surf and 17th Street Surf Shop of Virginia Beach; Wave Riding Vehicles of Kitty Hawk; The Pitt from Kill Devil Hills; and Village Surf Shoppe of Garden City Beach, S.C.

Five region winners will advance to the nationals at the Huntington Beach Pier in California later this year.

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Weight loss resort at Hilton Head profiled

by admin on April 11, 2011

There was an interesting story written recently by a writer who went to a weight loss resort in Hilton Head. Here is an excerpt:

Four days into my stay at the fat farm, I found myself in the shallow end of a swimming pool doing jumping jacks with a “nautical noodle,” surrounded by nine plump women and an insanely fit instructor as Lady Gaga blared over a loud speaker.

“Ten more reps,” barked the instructor. “Push it!”

An already absurd moment in my life became more so when I realized I was about to lose my swimming trunks.

It wouldn’t be my first humbling moment at Hilton Head Health (H3), a South Carolina fitness and weight-loss retreat that was getting national attention as site of the current TV hit “Heavy” on the A&E Network. Inspired by reality shows such as “Heavy” and “Biggest Loser,” people are flocking to what used to be called fat farms to drop pounds or, in some cases, save their lives.

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Film featuring Folly Beach surfing scene released

by admin on April 11, 2011

A short film that features that Folly Beach SC surfing scene was recently released. Here is an excerpt from a local write up on the subject:

Last year’s hurricane season was extremely generous to the Folly Beach surfing community, producing consistent surf that’s rarely seen in Charleston. Local videographer and surfer Bryant Thomas set out to document the unusual wealth of waves, and after one year of filming, he and his brothers unveiled the short film Waves in Our Pocket. McKevlin’s Surf Shop and Surf Bar hosted the premiere Saturday night on the streets of Folly Beach. A huge movie screen, food and beverage vendors, and a stage kept the crowd contained and constantly entertained.

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Antiques lovers finding treasure near Exmore

by admin on April 11, 2011

There was a fun article published recently about an antiques store near Exmore. Here is an excerpt:

Buckle up, folks: It’s time for another excellent road trip!

On this day, because we hadn’t been there in who-knows-how-long, we headed over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and chatted and talked and spoke kindly of absolutely everyone we knew until we arrived at our destination – The Blue Crow Antique Mall in Keller, Va., about seven miles north of Exmore.

It claims to be the second-largest antiques mall in Virginia with 250 dealers under one roof – 35,000 square feet of period furniture, estate and vintage costume jewelry, decorative arts, Christmas goods, nautical antiques and vintage hunting and fishing gadgets, decoys and tools and, for good spirits, a wine shop.

It’s true. There’s all that and more.

Wear your walking shoes.

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Sailors gearing up for Charleston Race Week

by admin on April 11, 2011

We get this from a recent press release on Charleston Race week which is coming up April 14-17:

279 boats take to the water for 2011 Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week, preparations are ramping up to welcome the 2000 sailors and support personnel to the largest keelboat regatta in North America in more than five years.

Race Director Randy Draftz has his hands full, though he took time out last weekend to serve as a guest speaker at US Sailing’s Yacht Club Summit in Chicago, IL. ‘It was great to see Charleston Race Week recognized by the National Governing Body for the work everyone has done to turn this into such a successful event,’ Draftz said. ‘Hopefully the information I was able to share about what has worked for us will be used by others to help their events gain the popularity we enjoy.’

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Smoking on the Bethany Beach boardwalk banned

by admin on April 11, 2011

In a victory for lungs in Delaware, the Bethany Beach Town Council recently made the seasonal ban on smoking on the boardwalk permanent. We get this report from a local TV station:

In a 4-3 vote Friday afternoon, the Bethany Beach Town Council passed an ordinance that bans smoking year-round on the boardwalk and access ramps to the beach.

The year-round ban supplanted the previous seasonal ban on smoking on the boardwalk, which had been in place from May 15-Sept. 15.

Of course smokers might miss wading through piles cigarette butts on the boardwalk but everyone else probably won’t.

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Coldstroke Classic SUP race is coming to Wrightsville Beach

by admin on January 5, 2011

The folks over at Coastal Urge are sponsoring the “Coldstroke Classic”, a standup paddle surfing (SUP) race in cold waters on January 15th. See here for registration details. And see here for our list of Wrightsville Beach hotels.

Here is some info on SUP from the wiki:

Stand up paddle surfing (SUP), or in the Hawaiian language Hoe he’e nalu, is an emerging global sport with a Hawaiian heritage. The sport is an ancient form of surfing, and reemerged as a way for surfing instructors to manage their large groups of students, as standing on the board gave them a higher viewpoint, increasing visibility of what was going on around them – such as incoming swell. To begin with, this started with using a one-bladed paddle, whilst standing on a normal length surfboard. The popularity of the modern sport of SUP has its origination in the Hawaiian Islands. In the early 1960s, the Beach Boys of Waikiki would stand on their long boards, and paddle out with outrigger paddles to take pictures of the tourists learning to surf. This is where the term “Beach Boy Surfing”, another name for Stand Up Paddle Surfing, originates.

The sport benefits athletes with a strong ‘core’ workout. SUP’ing is popular at warm coastal climates and resorts, and is gaining in popularity as celebrities are sampling the sport, and cross-over athletes are training with SUP. SUPs have been spotted around the globe, anywhere where there is easy access to safe waters, as well as in the surfing lineups of the world.

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Fire damaged Surfside Beach hotel to re-open

by admin on October 5, 2010

Fire might have gotten the Surfside Beach Resort down, but the hotel is not out. It is set to re-open this week. We get this report from a local news channel:

The owner of a Surfside Beach hotel damaged by a Monday night fire expects to re-open the property on Thursday.

The fire ripped through a dry storage area inside of a restaurant at the Surfside Beach Resort around 6:30 p.m. Monday, according to hotel spokesperson Jim Neil. Officials said the fire was quickly extinguished and did not damage any hotel rooms.

Approximately 40 rooms were being rented out at the time of the fire. The resort’s owner said it paid for guests to be relocated to a Holiday Inn in Surfside Beach.

Because the fire occurred during the middle of the week after a busy summer season, hotel officials expect to take a $20,000 to $30,000 hit in lost revenue.

The cause of the fire is believed to be electrical. No injuries were reported.

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Local lawmakers mulling new tax on Rehoboth Beach Hotels

by admin on April 14, 2010

Lawmakers are considering raising taxes on Rehoboth Beach hotels. And of course when taxes go up, room rates go up to compensate. Here are some bits from a recent article on the subject:

Hotel and motel owners could soon face another expense as officials look to boost revenue through the increase and extension of the city’s rental tax.

The measure would raise the current 3 percent gross receipts tax, which is levied on rental income generated by residential properties and cottages, and extend it to hotels, motels and other commercial rentals.

“It would be like pouring vinegar into a sore,” said Inez Conover, who owns the Sea Witch Manor, BEDazzled and Bewitched inns. “We’re taxed enough already.”

Hotel and motel owners are not currently taxed by the city, but 8 percent of their annual rental income is paid to the state. Changes at the city level would mean owners could be forced to relinquish 11 percent or more of their annual income.

If that’s the case, Conover said spending a night in Rehoboth Beach will be more costly.

“I’ve had to reduce my rates significantly (because of the economy),” she said. “But if taxes are going up, then prices will have to as well.”

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New Jekyll Island beach hotel announced

by admin on March 31, 2010

There is a new beach hotel being launched on Jekyll Island GA. Here are some excerpts from the press release on the subject:

With the historic oak tree canopy unique to this Jekyll Island hotel, the Hampton Inn & Suites, welcomed its first guests in January 2010 to the eco-friendly, beachfront hotel that utilized sustainable practices to help preserve and honour one of the eastern seaboard’s few remaining true maritime forest and dune eco-systems. The first hotel to be built on Jekyll Island since 1974, the 138 room Jekyll Island hotel provides guests with beach access in minutes while maintaining the unique natural area with dunes ranging from 18 to 30 feet above sea level with an elevated wooden walkway, providing guests a scenic route to access the Jekyll Island oceanfront.

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Virginia Beach Hotels step up for sailors at Christmas time

by admin on December 28, 2009

We get this nice story from that AP on the generosity of some Virginia Beach hotels:

By the Associated Press

December 24, 2009
NORFOLK, Va. – More than 130 sailors and their families will spend Christmas together thanks to the generosity of 27 hotels in Norfolk and Virginia Beach.

Operation J.I.N.G.L.E.–which stands for Join In Giving a Little Extra–provides three days of complimentary lodging for sailors from more than 30 local units and commands who live on ships or in barracks.

Families from across the country checked in on Wednesday and can stay through Saturday.

The program is coordinated by the Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society in conjunction with the Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Virginia Beach Hotel Motel Association.

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Myrtle Beach Hotel occupancy expected to be up this week

by admin on December 27, 2009

Maybe it is a sign of a recovering economy. The occupancy levels at Myrtle Beach Hotels is expected to climb this holiday season. We get this from a local TV station:

Hotels in Myrtle Beach can expect to see a boost in business during the week following Christmas. Over forty percent of hotel rooms are currently reserved in Myrtle Beach through New Year’s Eve.

According to a tourism update by Coastal Carolina University, hotel occupancy rates will increase through December 31. The report shows that New Year’s Eve will draw hundreds of visitors to the Grand Strand area, which will kick off 2010 on a better note than 2009.

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