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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hilton Head is beautiful and relaxing, but I have found it is a place where you have to make your own fun to keep little ones or especially teens entertained. If your kids enjoy beach time, nature walks, biking, and other low-key activities, all good. If you’re looking for a boardwalk or more exciting activities, it’s not the right place. [/quote]

Minus the carnival games rides of a boardwalk there is everything else that you would find on a boardwalk.

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That's literally what the pp said, lol.

Hilton head requires driving to get to each separate activity.  Beach? Drive (except for a handful of places on the beach). Restaurants? Drive elsewhere. Mini golf? Drive across the island.  Activities? Drive to a totally different place.  Didn't bother me, but you can't camp out in one place for the day and let people go find food when they're hungry and wander to mini golf when they are tired of the beach.  We had little kids so we do everything together anyway, but I don't think it would be as good when they are teens and wanting some independence.

It reminded me a lot of Santa Barbara, oddly.  Commercialized, bit of industry that most beach towns lack, and car centric.[/quote]

No they said “Boardwalk” not components of a typical boardwalk.  My point is all the typical kitchy boardwalk things are still readily available, crappy beach food, fudge, ice cream, T-shirt shops, henna tattoos, threaded hair braid, candy store.

And you don’t need to drive everywhere.  If you stay near or on Conligny beach you can pretty much walk to 90% of what you want/need.  And you are 10-15 minute bike ride to the other 10%.[/quote]

We stayed in Coligny beach.  We could ride bikes to the beach.  Everything else required a car (especially with little kids--the traffic is not insignificant, i wasn't comfortable having a 3 year old "ride" across a busy street).

We drove to mini golf, to restaurants, to the pirate boat, to the light house, to the museum, to the other mini golf, to the escape room, to the pottery place.  All were 15-30 minutes by car (which is in no way a lot, but more than walking or riding distance with little kids!)

It was nice! We enjoyed our week!  But I don't think it's worth 8 hours of driving over places that can be reached in half that.  Cape May is my favorite for true walkability.[/quote]

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