Charleston’s close location to John’s Island makes Charleston attractions more lucrative. The most famous vacation spot in the Charleston area is Myrtle Beach and the Grand Stand. The Grand Strand is the beach area and includes a variety of shops, restaurants, and fishing opportunities. This area covers more than sixty miles of white sand beaches where families come from all over the country to enjoy the summer weather.

The most visited center on the Grand Strand is Myrtle Beach. With a variety of sporting opportunities, Myrtle Beach offers visitors tennis courts, inshore and offshore fishing, over a hundred golf courses, and ocean swimming. Along with sporting activities, the beach allows visitors to shop at malls and specialty stores, visit nightclubs, or enjoy live musical theater.

In 2008 Myrtle Beach will open its latest tourist attraction Hard Rock Park. Licensed by the same owners who have opened Hard Rock Cafes around the world, Hard Rock Park will be an amusement park centered on a rock and roll theme. The main attraction will be Mount Rockmore, a derivative of Mount Rushmore with four busts including John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix. The amusement park will have a variety of roller coasters and restaurants. The signature roller coaster is Led Zeppelin: The Ride, a roller coaster built by B&M set to the music of Led Zeppelin. lots of love. The 155-foot tall roller coaster will feature six inversions and spiral over the existing lagoon and run along the side of the park along George Bishop Parkway.

Another famous restaurant in the Myrtle Beach area is The Medieval Times Restaurant & Tournament. This dinner is a two-hour show and dinner where customers are dined from set menus, who are asked to eat without utensils, while watching the knights perform different medieval shows and sporting events. Customers are divided into six teams of different colors according to their seats within the establishment.

Murrells Inlet has earned the name of the Seafood Capital of South Carolina due to the abundance of shellfish that live within the area’s waters. This seafood has allowed local restaurants to offer their customers the freshest seafood in South Carolina.