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Garden City Realty Wins Best Vacation Home Rental Company For Second Consecutive Year
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 H...
Read MoreBliss Restaurant in Murrells Inlet
Located next to the new Inlet Sports Lodge, Bliss is a nice new edition to Murrells Inlet. The owners have done a really good job of transforming what was formerly a ramshackle bar into a cozy, upscale establishment. The dining room seats about 50, with small tables and booths making for an intimate dining experience, and the expos...
Read MoreLet the good times roll! Skating at the Fun Warehouse
Quite recently, the trend of roller skating has been making a comeback. This staple of the 70’s and 80’s is now coming full circle, and children who may not have known what roller skating was are experiencing the fun. The Grand Strand is no exception. After many years of being vacant, the former Paradise Skate Center on 544 in Surf...
Read MoreSnow days and Thai food on the Grand Strand!
It’s been an interesting couple of days here at the beach, we’ve been getting some Winter Weather! (I use capitals, because to us, with our thin Carolina skins, snow and ice are UNKNOWN and we must be wary of them). We woke up yesterday to ice and little snow flurries, which quickly became huge snow flurries. Did it stick? No of co...
Read MoreA Beachside Merry Christmas from the Garden City Realty Family!
Very special holiday greetings from the Garden City Realty family! We hope everyone is having a joyous holiday season! No white Christmas for us, although we did have a few flurries this past Sunday, which always excites us natives to no end. Of course, those of you who are transplants or who are snowed in somewhere would more than...
Holiday Magic at Brookgreen Gardens
For anyone who is looking for a real holiday treat that showcases the finest of the South Carolina lowcountry, be sure to take a trip down to Brookgreen Gardens during their annual Nights of a Thousand Candles program. During selected days in December, the statue gardens of Brookgreen are transformed into a twinkling wonderland, wi...
Read MoreA Garden City Beach favorite- the Boiled Peanut!
In keeping with the theme of recipes and summer favorites, I would like to spend this post talking about a southern delicacy that many have probably never heard of- the illustrious boiled peanut! What exactly is a boiled peanut, you may ask? It is, in fact, a peanut in the shell, boiled in salty water. And it is delicious! This is ...
Read MoreFried Green Tomatoes: A Garden City Beach summer staple!
Welcome to the first in the Southern Summer Recipe Series! Every week, we will be featuring a favorite recipe from one of the Garden City Realty staff, in hopes that you might be able to bring a little piece of the Beach back to your home! Our very first recipe is a southern summer staple: the fried green tomato! For those of you u...
Read MoreGreat weather is here! Now is the time to visit Garden City Beach!
Spring has officially arrived in the Garden City Beach and Surfside Beach area! The weather is sunny and breezy, with temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. Locals and visitors alike are breaking out the bathing suits and gassing up the boats in what is predicted to be the nicest Spring the Grand Strand has seen in quite some time. ...
Read MoreSpring is the perfect time to visit Garden City Beach!
Spring has arrived and there is no better place to enjoy it than in Garden City Beach and Surfside Beach, South Carolina! After what has been an atypically cold and dreary Winter for us here on the Grand Strand, the sun is finally shining and the cold is on its way out! We’ve already had quite a few sunny weekends where there’s no...
