• Welcome to the FREE TUGBBS forums! The absolute best place for owners to get help and advice about their timeshares for more than 32 years!

    Join Tens of Thousands of other owners just like you here to get any and all Timeshare questions answered 24 hours a day!
  • TUG started 32 years ago in October 1993 as a group of regular Timeshare owners just like you!

    Read about our 32nd anniversary: Happy 32nd Birthday TUG!
  • TUG has a YouTube Channel to produce weekly short informative videos on popular Timeshare topics!

    All subscribers auto-entered to win all free TUG membership giveaways!

    Visit TUG on Youtube!
  • TUG has now saved timeshare owners more than $24,000,000 dollars just by finding us in time to rescind a new Timeshare purchase! A truly incredible milestone!

    Read more here: TUG saves owners more than $24 Million dollars
  • Wish you could meet up with other TUG members? Well look no further as this annual event has been going on for years in Orlando! How to Attend the TUG January Get-Together!
  • Now through the end of the year you can join or renew your TUG membership at the lowest price ever offered! Learn More!
  • Sign up to get the TUG Newsletter for free!

    Tens of thousands of subscribing owners! A weekly recap of the best Timeshare resort reviews and the most popular topics discussed by owners!
  • Our official "end my sales presentation early" T-shirts are available again! Also come with the option for a free membership extension with purchase to offset the cost!

    All T-shirt options here!
  • A few of the most common links here on the forums for newbies and guests!

Hilton Head to ban future timeshare development?

TUGBrian

TUGBrian

Administrator
Joined
Mar 24, 2006
Messages
25,461
Reaction score
12,201
Location
Florida
How much does timeshare resorts bring in new employers, new employment opportunities , real estate taxes and spending income/dollars to Hilton Head Island yearly?
 
I'm kinda surprised there's demand to build new resorts - HHI seemed chock full of them when I've been there.
 
jp10558 said:
I'm kinda surprised there's demand to build new resorts - HHI seemed chock full of them when I've been there.
Click to expand...
This sounds like another attempt to reduce short-term rentals.

NIMBY
 
Hilton Head is one of my favorite places in the World. The problem is that during the summer time it is absolutely mobbed with tourists and for me it's not at all the same as the rest of the year. Reducing short term rentals makes sense to me. Of course I'm a tourist too, but I feel like a local by now given my over 100 trips there over the last 25 years.
 
Just returned from our 3rd February visit to HHI in a row. Year 1-Cottages at Shipyard, Year 2-Spinnaker at Shipyard and this year staying with friends in their 3-bedroom townhouse rental at Seascape Villas off of S. Forest Beach Dr. Even though it's off season, traffic on 278 approaching the island from 170 is heavily congested until the branch off of the Cross Island Pkwy.
Next year I'd like to rent a unit at the Spa which is near to Fish Haul Beach and tucked away from the hustle and bustle.
Don't see how a new timeshare development could add anything positive to the island.
 
@Big Matt and @beejaybee not to hijack this thread but what do you do on HHI during the offseason? We tend to travel in summer shoulder seasons (Memorial Day or late August/Labor Day) because we love the beach and I like to swim in the ocean. We basically wake up when we want, pack some sandwiches, head to the beach, and stay there until dinner time. Then quick something easy for dinner and hit the hay early.

However I see these tempting off season weeks and want to maybe try one. We live in Alabama so have no weather to escape really. We like to dine out but lately the cost of doing so feels "not worth it" to us.

We don't play golf but like outdoorsy things like nature tours.

Curious as to whether we should try offseason in Hilton Head.
 
heathpack said:
@Big Matt and @beejaybee not to hijack this thread but what do you do on HHI during the offseason? We like to dine out but lately the cost of doing so feels "not worth it" to us.

We don't play golf but like outdoorsy things like nature tours.

Curious as to whether we should try offseason in Hilton Head.
Click to expand...
We just sold our final whole condo ownership on HHI, it was time :cry: and miss it already. First pet-friendly one we owned was at Seascape where beejayohio will be staying (pets for owners only), second at Treetops/OceanBreeze right behind Seascape-- pet-friendly for owners *and* renters and guests. We spent many many weeks there off-season -- the few times we even went during high season were too intensely crowded, but our vacation rental at Treetops especially stayed rented almost all the time -- so mostly we'd grab the occasional last-minute vacancy and ride down for a week or 2. We never ran out of things to do, don't play golf either. I confess having our dog with us made it all the better, if you wanted to try out an off-season week, and even bring one or 2 dogs with you, just try a weekly rental. It's one of the most pet-friendly environments we've ever experienced, almost every single restaurant has pet-friendly seating outdoors which you'd have weather for almost all year, some covered in case of rain.

We got hooked when on the last day of one of our timeshare stays (Disney HHI) it was raining so we decided to inquire with a realtor, then came back down with our dog a few weeks later to go see one, staying at a motel, it was last-minute so we couldn't get a pet-sitter. We fell in love with the experience of having our dog with us, which was unplanned, and didn't look back for many years. Every day off-season we'd have a couple of beach walks, have a drink sitting on one of those boxes on the beach, photography and bird-watching at Pinckney Island (or off our balcony or patio), Fish Haul beach (one time we ran into a Road Scholar tour group there!), go to movies, Savannah, outlet shopping, thrift store and consignment shop browsing (there are over 100, some sell pretty nice artwork), and the restaurants are so close and varied and excellent, and many are still pretty inexpensive relatively. Also there's a wonderful annual lantern parade in Novenber, and we did an informative historic tour on HHI.
 
Laurie said:
We just sold our final whole condo ownership on HHI, it was time :cry: and miss it already. First pet-friendly one we owned was at Seascape where beejayohio will be staying (pets for owners only), second at Treetops/OceanBreeze right behind Seascape-- pet-friendly for owners *and* renters and guests. We spent many many weeks there off-season -- the few times we even went during high season were too intensely crowded, but our vacation rental at Treetops especially stayed rented almost all the time -- so mostly we'd grab the occasional last-minute vacancy and ride down for a week or 2. We never ran out of things to do, don't play golf either. I confess having our dog with us made it all the better, if you wanted to try out an off-season week, and even bring one or 2 dogs with you, just try a weekly rental. It's one of the most pet-friendly environments we've ever experienced, almost every single restaurant has pet-friendly seating outdoors which you'd have weather for almost all year, some covered in case of rain.

We got hooked when on the last day of one of our timeshare stays (Disney HHI) it was raining so we decided to inquire with a realtor, then came back down with our dog a few weeks later to go see one, staying at a motel, it was last-minute so we couldn't get a pet-sitter. We fell in love with the experience of having our dog with us, which was unplanned, and didn't look back for many years. Every day off-season we'd have a couple of beach walks, have a drink sitting on one of those boxes on the beach, photography and bird-watching at Pinckney Island (or off our balcony or patio), Fish Haul beach (one time we ran into a Road Scholar tour group there!), go to movies, Savannah, outlet shopping, thrift store and consignment shop browsing (there are over 100, some sell pretty nice artwork), and the restaurants are so close and varied and excellent, and many are still pretty inexpensive relatively. Also there's a wonderful annual lantern parade in Novenber, and we did an informative historic tour on HHI.
Click to expand...

Treetops is pet friendly? How many dogs? We have four and we love traveling with them, going on walks, etc. They are excellent travelers. I know there is something behind the scenes that AirBnB hosts can check about previous stays because occasionally when we ask to bring 4 dogs, the host disappears for a few moments and then comes back and says yes. I think our dogs must have some kind of 5 star rating. Maybe we should look into an off-season Airbnb stay with dogs.

Although the idea of an alligator snatching one of our dogs terrifies me!
 
heathpack said:
Treetops is pet friendly? How many dogs? We have four and we love traveling with them, going on walks, etc. They are excellent travelers. I know there is something behind the scenes that AirBnB hosts can check about previous stays because occasionally when we ask to bring 4 dogs, the host disappears for a few moments and then comes back and says yes. I think our dogs must have some kind of 5 star rating. Maybe we should look into an off-season Airbnb stay with dogs.

Although the idea of an alligator snatching one of our dogs terrifies me!
Click to expand...
Yes Treetops is pet-friendly for renters and guests, at the discretion of each owner. There may be a complex-wide 2-dog limit now, I'm not certain -- Treetops HOA changed management companies recently. Owners did (and I assume still do) have to pay an annual fee per dog allowed, so that may also be a reason some would limit total number, and was why we limited our renters to two. Some are leary of damage, although we never had a problem with dogs, unlike a few cases with children. :D

Just don't walk your dogs at lagoon edges! We never saw any gators at Treetops, but frequently did at Seascape, in fact we named her Gloria Gator. Speaking of which, the Sea Pines Preserve is lovely too, which you may already know, and we have seen gators there as well, but the trails are pet-friendly.

All beaches allow dogs on beach all day except between Memorial Day and Labor Day, which is why we didn't like to go between those dates -- I think on leash only between 10 and 5. Between those holidays, dogs on beach only before 10 and after 5. Treetops has a nice shaded paved path along its western edge which comes out almost at the Alder Lane beach access, which goes by the edge of Grande Ocean. It has showers, fountains, restrooms, turn right and the beach fronts houses in Sea Pines, rarely crowded. The little Grande Ocean restaurant and bar technically doesn't allow dogs, BUT they allowed us to sit at a table with ours. One season I got so friendly with my daily stops around sunset for a mudslide, the bar tender let me run up a tab. :cool:
 
Last edited:
We enjoyed HHI once in January - there was the weather in the 60s, a super cheap week to get, and the Audobon and Pickney nature areas are nice. I haven't yet gotten into Sea Pines beyond eating at a restaurant and some photos of the lighthouse. But HHI is one of the "return to" place off season. It's basically empty and very calm. I am going back in October this year so we'll see what that is like.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top