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Tournament Weekends: Myrtle Beach

Homes for youth baseball and softball weekends at The Ripken Experience, Grand Park, and the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex. Room for two families or half a roster.

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Adam Norko
Curator. Travels for club sports most fall weekends.

Picked the way a parent picks: professional manager, own booking site, enough beds, a pool for the off day. Not a ranking.

Dates worth knowing

  • Oct 3 to 4, 2026Ripken Experience Fall Kick-OffSource
  • Oct 10 to 11, 2026Ripken Nationals Qualifier and Palmetto StateSource
  • Oct 31 to Nov 1, 2026Ripken Halloween at the BeachSource
  • Jun 13 to Aug 13, 2027Ripken week-long summer eventsSource

Myrtle Beach runs youth tournaments nearly every weekend from October into December: Ripken Experience weekends, Grand Park softball, Perfect Game at the complex. The tournament's own lodging program is hotels. The Grand Strand's professional rental managers, some of the deepest in the country, sit ten to twenty-five minutes from the fields with houses that hold a whole team.

Ten homes, ten management companies, all with their own booking sites. Four name Ripken, teams, or tournaments directly; the rest are the big houses a team parent would pick. Each links to the manager; you book with them.

Browse here10 homes, 10 management companies, one reason to be on the same page.
Book with the managerEvery link goes to the company's own booking site. Prices, photos, and availability live there.
Or send your dates"Check dates" forwards your dates and party size to the manager and opens their page.

The homes

The Ripken Experience, fall weekends

Oct 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25, Oct 31-Nov 1, 2026The Ripken Experience, Myrtle Beach, SCEvent site

Ripken's stay-to-play discount applies to its hotel partners only; a house does not earn it. Decide which matters more to your group.

Together ResortsPreview from Together Resorts's listing

204 54th A & B

North Myrtle Beach, SC · Together Resorts
Sleeps 10028 BR
Listing: a fit for sports teams and convenient to the Ripken Experience. The whole tournament under two roofs.
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Found on Together Resorts's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Retreat Myrtle BeachPreview from Retreat Myrtle Beach's listing

Sandtrap 10

North Myrtle Beach (Ocean Drive), SC · Retreat Myrtle Beach
Sleeps 205 BR
Part of a ten-cottage complex the manager rents together for youth group getaways; shared pool, basketball and volleyball courts.
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Found on Retreat Myrtle Beach's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Elliott Beach RentalsPreview from Elliott Beach Rentals's listing

Isle of Palms

North Myrtle Beach, SC · Elliott Beach Rentals
Sleeps 124 BR
Oceanfront with a hot tub. A guest review calls it a great location for multiple families attending Ripken. Listing says families only, no groups.
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Found on Elliott Beach Rentals's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Beach Vacations

Bermuda Breeze D

North Myrtle Beach, SC · Beach Vacations
Sleeps 208 BR
Eight bedrooms. The manager runs a Ripken team page and markets itself as a Ripken accommodations partner.
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Found on Beach Vacations's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Myrtlewood Villas

Magnolia Pointe Luster Leaf 4891-205

Myrtle Beach (Myrtlewood), SC · Myrtlewood Villas
Sleeps 63 BR
Ripken names Myrtlewood Villas its official lodging partner. Two kings, two twins, resort pools and a lazy river.
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Found on Myrtlewood Villas's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.

Grand Park and North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex

Oct 24-25, Oct 31-Nov 1, Nov 7-8, Nov 14-15, Dec 5-6, Dec 11-13, 2026Grand Park (Carolina Forest) and NMB Sports ComplexEvent site

Youth softball and baseball dates per the Visit Myrtle Beach sports calendar.

Condo-WorldPreview from Condo-World's listing

Blue Heaven

North Myrtle Beach, SC · Condo-World
Sleeps 246 BR
Twenty-four beds from the area's largest condo and home manager. Team dinner solved.
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Found on Condo-World's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Garden City Realty

Moonlighting, Whole House

Myrtle Beach, SC · Garden City Realty
Sleeps 258 BR
Eight bedrooms marketed for large gatherings.
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Found on Garden City Realty's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Booe RealtyPreview from Booe Realty's listing

Summer Cottage 14

Myrtle Beach (Shore Drive), SC · Booe Realty
Sleeps 83 BR
Standalone cottage on the north end, near the Barefoot Landing corridor per the listing.
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Found on Booe Realty's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Palmetto Vacation Rentals

Chester Street House

Myrtle Beach, SC · Palmetto Vacation Rentals
Sleeps 84 BR
Four bedrooms with a pool. The one-family option.
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Found on Palmetto Vacation Rentals's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
Grand Strand VacationsPreview from Grand Strand Vacations's listing

Summer Days, Upstairs

North Myrtle Beach (Cherry Grove), SC · Grand Strand Vacations
Sleeps 63 BR
Direct oceanfront duplex with a washer and dryer, which matters by Sunday.
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Found on Grand Strand Vacations's site. Facts per the listing, September 2026.
The Note behind this club · September 5, 2026

The tournament housing list nobody who has been on the trip wrote

Ripken Experience weekends run nearly every Saturday from October into November. Grand Park softball and the North Myrtle Beach complex fill the rest of the calendar into December. The tournament's own lodging program is hotels, and it comes with a stay-to-play discount that a house does not earn. That is worth saying out loud, and the club page says it.

What the hotel list does not have is a kitchen for the 6am breakfast, a yard for the ball, and a table that seats the team. The Grand Strand has one of the deepest benches of professional rental managers in the country, and their houses sit ten to twenty-five minutes from the fields.

Ten homes, ten managers

Ten different companies, all with their own booking sites. Four of the listings name Ripken, teams, or tournaments directly; one manager is Ripken's official lodging partner and says so; another runs a Ripken team page. The rest are the big houses a team parent would pick: twenty beds, twenty-four beds, eight bedrooms, a washer and dryer, which matters by Sunday.

One of them sleeps a hundred across two buildings. The whole tournament under two roofs.

Who should own this

The people who bring the teams to town. Visit Myrtle Beach runs the sports calendar the page links to; the tournament organizers send the housing email. Either one could own this club, earn on every house it fills, and hand parents something better than a hotel block.

For the parents

Book the house. Split it with the family you already carpool with. Bring the cooler.

Facts on the club page are what each manager's listing states, checked September 2026. Event dates per Ripken Baseball and the Visit Myrtle Beach sports calendar.

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