First, to answer your question, we don't go back to Oceanwatch, except when we're meeting up with a friend who owns there, and that is rare.
Should have included that, sorry 
As I said it's been a while, and we typically trade that or give it to my staff or a friend.
Let there be no mistake...Oceanwatch resort is an amazingly beautiful resort. The villas are gorgeous and the pools are pristine.
The beach is great, too, same beach that traverses the entire East coast (I've heard).
In general the place is as good as it gets in the Marriott system. It's classy and it's awesome.
My problem is not with the resort, but with Myrtle Beach proper. It's a different crowd, which I said too much previously.
Myrtle Beach is cheap & touristy, and the caliber of the two do not seem right for each other.
(Typical day's agenda for the non-Marriott Myrtle Beach visitor:
Drive down the strip, get a tattoo, buy a T-shirt, go play miniature golf, next wait in line for dinner at Calabash Seafood House, then go get wasted at some honky tonk bar.)
But Oceanwatch itself is OK....day on the beach and at the pools, very nice. Then what?
But it's a reasonable location for its latitude. That was Marriott's intent, I believe.
Nothing "Marriott" between Fairway Villas/Atlantic City and Hilton Head, except for Oceanwatch.
They knew the location's draw would be the key---"halfway to Florida". And yes, it's a golfing mecca....more courses than anywhere else I know of, except Orlando, perhaps.
So, I wish this amazing resort could be dug up and set down somewhere else. Drop it down onto Maui or Oahu and we have a deal.
Regarding my previous post, I do tend to be verbose because I don't want to leave anything unsaid, at least on this enjoyable and lazy Saturday morning.
Hard week at the office, so it's like therapy. (If it helps you to go to sleep, you may want to print it and re-use. You're welcome.)
I'm absolutely sure some of that is superfluous, but it was not a thesis or a term paper (I wrote so many), so it was not intended to be of that caliber.
I have 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 yo grandchildren, so my stories tend to go on and on........ it must transfer to TUG posts for me.... again, sorry.
Brevity is not my forte, except when I'm writing up my patients' charts daily.....I have to keep that short and precise, but that's another story.
I said all that in my post for a reason....it explains some of the minor details or back story that people may not know.
I was trying to paint a picture, not write a "drive-by".
The message was really addressed to the OP who was looking for a place for their "older crowd".
We personally have no problem walking, and walking quite a way for dining and everything else. Everywhere we go, we like to walk.
For example, we've been to Boston in Fall 9 times out of the last 13 years (the pandemic cut into that string of trips),
and we walk from Custom House to the North End every evening for dinner. At Hilton Head we walk many times to breakfast, after walking the beach in the mornings.
When we visit Manor Club in Fall and during both holidays (Thanksgiving or Christmas) we walk the woodsy trails every day for hours,
and we also walk Colonial Williamsburg for hours at a time. Thankfully we are neither medically nor physically challenged.
And in closing, one last word, just for you.......enjoy....
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave thast full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, syour hall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the pelove ople, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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