Garden City Beach holds the second-largest stock of seasonal housing anywhere in this metro. Of its 10,506 housing units, 3,952 are seasonal, recreational or occasional-use -- 38 percent, and two and a half times Surfside's absolute count. Only North Myrtle Beach has more. About 11,600 people live here year round, with a median age just past 60, so the town is simultaneously one of the busiest rental beaches on the Strand and one of its quieter retirement communities.
The geography is a narrow strip between the ocean and the marsh, with the beach-house grid running back from Ocean Boulevard and Garden City Point at the south end where the peninsula thins out. The Pier at Garden City runs about 668 feet out, with a bar and live music through the season; it was rebuilt in 1992 after Hugo destroyed the old Kingfisher Pier in 1989. The town also straddles the Horry and Georgetown county line, which is why its mail splits between two ZIP codes.
Cleaning here is mostly beach-house work: multi-story rentals with high bed counts, decks and outdoor showers, sand in every stair tread, and Saturday-to-Saturday changeovers through peak season. Alongside it are the year-round households and the second-home owners who come down for stretches and want the place opened up before they arrive and closed down after they leave. Off-season deep cleans matter more here than most people expect, because a property that sits empty through a humid winter does not stay as it was left.
We are about 20 minutes from Myrtle Beach. Give us your changeover dates as early as you have them and we will tell you what we can cover.
