Ocean Lakes covers 310 acres. Walking from your rental to the water park takes 15 minutes if the weather’s cooperating, longer if it isn’t. Driving a golf cart takes three. The math on whether a cart matters at Ocean Lakes works out the same way every time, which is why…

Ocean Lakes Family Campground is a 310-acre gated oceanfront community in Myrtle Beach, SC. Inside the gates you’ll find a private mile of beach, a full water park, mini golf, pools, arcades, a dog park, and roughly 300 rental houses. Most of those houses, including all 34 of mine, come…

If you book the same Ocean Lakes house through Airbnb instead of through me, you’re paying 12 to 18 percent more for the exact same week. On a typical 7-night summer rental, that gap lands somewhere between $250 and $700. The house is the same, the cleaning is the same,…