Island Vista Resort

Guests enjoy comfortable, spacious rooms with ocean views and updated amenities. The location is peaceful, close to the beach, and the staff provides excellent, friendly service. Regular maintenance ensures cleanliness.

Location of the resort is excellent. The fact that it is on a beach by itself almost is very appealing because it’s not very crowded. If we come back to this hotel, that will be the reason. Housekeeping is also great. They bring you new towels every day which I have been to hotels in the past that say they will do this and don’t this one actually does. You need to use a key card in order to access the pool towels there are chips inside of each pool towel that track them and it charges you if you don’t return them. I found this to actually be very nice because you had pool towels every time you went down to the pool. The pools were very nice. We stayed in a three bedroom suite and the space was very nice to have. A few things that I wish I knew before coming: They do not give you carts to take your stuff to and from the hotel room -they require you use a bellhop service, which is fine upon arrival because that’s easy but when leaving, it is very difficult because we are not nearly as well packed as when we arrived and needed to make quite a few trips down to our car and take time to organize it like Tetris, which bellhop service could not spend the time do so (and we also would not want them standing watching us because that’s very stressful). We asked if we could make use of the cart because we could do it very quickly and one person just stay down with the car with the kids while one person takes it back-and-forth and one very large trip but they said no. We had to take our stuff down basically bag by bag, (husband is loaded down while I watch the kids) which took an incredibly long time (this is what we are currently doing still and I’m hoping to be out by checkout time, but I’m not sure we’re gonna make it due to this reason, even though we started loading the car over an hour ago. If we could’ve loaded a cart down, it would’ve been much quicker but due to the fact of having to wait on the elevators with bags of luggage and stopping on every single floor, it’s taking 10 to 15 minutes just to get down to the parking lot each time. I’ve never been to a hotel where we’ve not been able to load our car quickly.. We have an extremely large long and tall vehicle and did not realize that you cannot park a car that is above 6’6“ on the first level of the parking deck which made parking extremely limited. The spots are incredibly tiny (yes the “overflow parking also” and I was not comfortable parking the car so I essentially got hotel trapped while my husband did business stuff because I could not have re-parked my car, yes I could have left, but not have parked it again if I needed to come back to the hotel-although even leaving a parking spot means multiple point turns to get out of it because the parking spots are so small. Halfway through the stay (Fri-Sat) we went to eat breakfast at the restaurant here in the hotel when we arrived, there weren’t many people, but after we walked in quite a few people walked in about five minutes later- we put i

We just returned from a visit to the Island Vista. My mother-in-law passed away in April after a lengthy illness. My wife and I were much in need of a peaceful and relaxing vacation. Island Vista proved to be perfect for our needs. An oceanfront one bedroom suite was comfy and spacious. The house keeping staff provided the best service we have experienced since prior to the pandemic. This includes a couple of expensive venues in the Asheville area. We dined in the hotel restaurant one evening and the poolside Tiki Bar everyday of our visit. Don’t expect the typical hotel food here. They far exceeded our expectations. We found the design of the pool landscaping to be exceptional. They have groups of palm tree clusters providing shady areas with no need of an umbrella. The pool has the usual lounge chairs , but also had areas with outdoor furniture groups each with an umbrella or two. The Island Vista has carried attention to detail to a higher level. Myrtle Beach is famous for cheap plastic chairs on their balconies. Island Vista provides the nicest most comfortable woven rocking chairs for your balcony and poolside. Don’t know of a better South Carolina venue for my afternoon martini than my balcony at the Island Vista………………………..cheers!