Visitors to the Myrtle Beach area have once again chosen Garden City Realty as the 2010 Best Vacation Home Rental Company in the annual Sun News "Best of the Beach" contest. Murrells Inlet, SC (PRWEB) January 20, 2011 Garden City Realty announced this month that for the second year in a row, visitors have named them Best Vacation Home Rental Company in the "Best of the Beach" contest, an annual competition that allows guests to vote for their favorites along the Grand Strand and recognizes the best in service and commitment to quality.

NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Authors and Myrtle Beach residents Liz and Charlie Mitchell have written two travel guidebooks for Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Part of the Tourist Town Guides® series, both guides offer honest, independent travel advice for visitors to South Carolina's most popular tourist hotspots. Myrtle Beach: A Guide to South Carolina's Grand Strand (Channel Lake, Inc., $14.95) takes vacationers on a tour of the Grand Strand.

Most of the most contaminated beach water off the South Carolina coast is along the Grand Strand in Horry and Georgetown counties.This chart shows the percentage of samples taken in 2007 from each beach that exceed the bacterial contamination limit for safe swimming set by the U.S.

By James Rosen / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - A prominent environmental group trashed South Carolina's beaches Tuesday, ranking their waters the sixth-most contaminated in the country. The S.C.

By Aliana Ramos, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Jul. 30--South Carolina's beaches, including those in Horry and Georgetown counties, are the sixth most polluted in the nation, according to a report released Tuesday by a nonprofit environmental group.