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Myrtle Beach is getting even trashier - Heck yeah!

By Jen Rothacker

I admit it: I like Myrtle Beach. My parents live south of Myrtle, in Surfside Beach, and I head down there at least a half a dozen times a year. My girlfriends and I do a long weekend there every summer and we act like idiots.

But, it’s important to get what Myrtle’s about: As coed.com just proclaimed, it’s trashy. In fact, it’s so trashy (cheap booze, strip clubs, tattoos) that it’s moved up to No. 3 trashiest place to Spring Break, after Panama City, Fla. and Las Vegas.

And that means fun. Even if you’re not there for Spring Break. Here are 5 reasons why:

(1) The beaches rock. They are wide and flat. The water is warm all summer and it’s rarely super rough. You can walk the beach for miles. There’s enough room for everybody.

(2) Tattoos, beer and smokes. I’m not tatted up, but I sure do get my fill of other people’s tats on the beaches of Myrtle Beach. There’s a lot of beer (cool) and smoking (not cool). But you know what it says to me? Everybody’s welcome, so chill.

(3) You can dance. Sometimes we go to Broadway at the Beach, which is total cheesy tourist fun, or we go where the locals go, The Hot Fish Club in Murrells Inlet. We are the life of the party (or at least we think we are).

(4) Best mini golf. You can go small or you can go really big. It’s epic.

(5) Fried seafood. First, you can get pretty legit seafood in Myrtle (I’m not saying it’s all from Myrtle, but it’s all still good). And, it’s best if you get fried. It won’t help with that bikini, but it’s worth that extra pudge.

Photo: The Sun News

This story was originally published March 3, 2015 at 12:45 AM with the headline "Myrtle Beach is getting even trashier - Heck yeah!."

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