Halloweekends at Ocean Lakes: Your 2026 Haunted Guide

Halloweekends at Ocean Lakes: Your 2026 Haunted Guide If you’ve never done Halloween at Ocean Lakes, it’s hard to describe until you see it. Hundreds of families decorate their sites and beach houses. Kids trick-or-treat through the campground on Saturday afternoons. Golf carts get pumpkin lights, skeletons, cobwebs, the whole thing. This runs every weekend […]
Why Booking Direct Enhance Your Vacation Rental Experience

Why Should You Book Direct? When you book direct, you’ll have a better experience. The most obvious argument for booking a vacation rental direct instead of through Airbnb or Vrbo is the price. You save 12 to 18 percent by skipping the OTA service fee. But price isn’t actually the biggest thing that changes when […]
What Amenities Are Included in a Dune Life Rental at Ocean Lakes?

What Amenities are included in Dune Life Ocean Lakes Rentals? Every “what’s included” list on a vacation rental site gives you a general idea of what you will get to enjoy during your trip. This on the otherhand, is the actual list of what you get when you book a Dune Life house at Ocean […]
Meet Shawn: How One Beach House Became 34 Rentals at Ocean Lakes

I’m Shawn Huffines, and I own Dune Life Rentals, an independent vacation rental company managing 34 family homes inside Ocean Lakes Family Campground in Myrtle Beach, SC. If you’ve found this page, you’re probably trying to figure out whether the company behind your potential booking is a real person or a faceless management company. The […]
What is the best time of year to visit Ocean Lakes?

What’s the best time of year to visit Ocean Lakes? Ocean Lakes Family Campground operates year-round, but the experience changes dramatically depending on when you visit. Peak season runs roughly from May 15 through Labor Day Weekend, with July as the busiest month and the water park open. Off-season runs October through April with significantly […]
Ocean Lakes Site Numbers Explained: How to Choose the Right Section

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 the water but have a […]
Direct Booking vs. Airbnb at Ocean Lakes: What You Actually Save in 2026

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, the golf cart in the […]