Most Ocean Lakes Family Campground guests drive in from the Carolinas, Virginia, or Georgia. The five most common drive markets are Charlotte (about 3.5 hours), Raleigh (about 3 hours), Greensboro (about 3.5 hours), Columbia (about 2.5 hours), and Atlanta (about 5.5 hours). Ocean Lakes is located at 6001 South Kings…

Ocean Lakes Family Campground spans 310 acres in Myrtle Beach, SC, with nearly a mile of oceanfront. With that much ground to cover, where your house sits inside the campground matters almost as much as which house you book! Oceanfront sections (2000, I, H, HH, K) put you closest to…

Ocean Lakes Family Campground welcomes most dogs, has its own dedicated 1-acre off-leash dog park, and includes DIY dog wash stations for cleaning the sand off at the end of the day. Not every individual rental at Ocean Lakes is pet-friendly though, and Dune Life Rentals has a subset of…

If you’re planning a vacation for 10 to 14 people across three generations, Ocean Lakes Family Campground is one of the strongest options on the East Coast for a single rental house big enough to hold everyone. The largest Dune Life Rentals properties sleep up to 12 guests across 4…

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,…