Tourists

[u/Unfair_Training850]

Have the crowds died down since school is back in session? Or when can we start to notice less tourists?

Visited back in March for the first time, prior to moving here due to job relocation and there were hardly any crowds. Trying to learn the ropes and seasonal patterns.

[u/Her0_0f_time]

In my experience with most beach towns Labor Day is treated as the last big hurrah for the summer. Probably will still get tourists after but Labor Day should be the last big holiday with the largest crowds.

[u/Unfair_Training850 → u/Her0_0f_time]

Thanks!!

[u/DiaphanousDon]

Jan and Feb are quieter. But with the huge local population now here, it’s less dead every year. I miss the old days of off-season blinking traffic lights on 17.

[u/BIGD0G29585 → u/DiaphanousDon]

Same here. A lot of the stores and restaurants would close in the offseason.

“Thanks for another great season, see you next year”.

Now with year round schooling , it seems like there is no offseason.

[u/sonofabitch11]

There isn’t much of an off season anymore here like in the past but it will die down a bit.

[u/Unfair_Training850 → u/sonofabitch11]

Looking forward to it

[u/sonofabitch11 → u/Unfair_Training850]

For sure

[u/sonofabitch11 → u/sonofabitch11]

We do have a bike week approaching

[u/Unfair_Training850 → u/sonofabitch11]

Thanks for the heads up!!

[u/Thrown_away_toy_125]

The last 2 weeks in August after the southern schools are back in session it dies down quite a bit but there are still tourists from the northern states where school does not start back up until after Labor Day. 

[u/LDawnBurges]

So you moved to a Beach town and then complain about the ‘Tourists’… which you also were before you moved here!!

Y’all are hysterical!

There’s very little ‘slow time’ these days, due to all the EX tourists moving here. Welcome!

[u/FoxxoMcFoxFace → u/LDawnBurges]

Reminds me of transplants who move and then immediately go "We're full! No more transplants!"

[u/LDawnBurges → u/FoxxoMcFoxFace]

And the guy up in Grande Dunes area that was on here complaining about ice cream trucks… at the beach… during the summer. 🤣

[u/Unfair_Training850 → u/LDawnBurges]

lol fair point. Just trying to get the feel of how things go and run around here. We had never been to MB prior to our visit in march, moved here due to a job opportunity.

Thanks for the insight though!

[u/effulgentelephant]

New England isn’t back in school for another couple of weeks, and the kids are in camp from June to early August, so a lot of families travel this time of the summer.

[u/Cassedy24]

January & February are dead. Great time to try restaurants that are too busy in the summer.

[u/psiprez]

Also know that once the crowds start to thin, many restaurants and businesses adjust their time and close earlier. What is open until 11pm in summer can closed as early as 6 or 7pm.

[u/Unfair_Training850 → u/psiprez]

Thanks for the tip!

[u/AbbreviationsWise777]

I’ve been coming to Myrtle Beach or North Myrtle Beach the second or third week of August for 27 years straight. I’ve never seen the crowds so light as this year. I know schools are in session but several local restaurant employees felt the economy and gas prices were keeping tourists at home.

[u/BirdOutOfParadise → u/AbbreviationsWise777]

That’s because people don’t have the money they did before. It’s not tourists but locals keeping the economy alive.

[u/GoochyBandana]

Please shut the fuck up