Myrtle Beach oceanfront hotel targeted for closure. Here’s why

The Horry County solicitor is asking for a momentary injunction to close a Myrtle Beach oceanfront hotel that allegedly has grow to be a public nuisance.

Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said in the petition against the Twilight Surf Hotel, 1703 S. Ocean Blvd., that the hotel “has the general reputation for repeated acts of unlawful possession or sale of controlled substances and continuous breaches of the peace.”

Messages left with the hotel and who is believed to be the registered agent for SK Holding Group LLC, proprietor of the property, weren’t immediately returned.

A message left with the particular prosecutor in the case also was not returned by publication.

The hotel was bought in 2021 and since that time there was “little to no management or oversight of the business operations of the hotel,” the Oct. 20, 2025, submitting said. “In this vacuum, drug activity and breaches of the peace have become rampant.”

It is unclear how many instances police have responded to the hotel. The Sun News has requested incidents associated to the hotel.

The petition is asking for the hotel to be closed for one 12 months until a trial could be performed.

If granted, the hotel’s house owners and workers will likely be restrained from utilizing, sustaining and helping in the utilizing of the hotel and the Myrtle Beach Police division will take away all the furnishings, tools, fixtures and other property and put it in a place for safekeeping, the petition said.

The petition said that the furnishings, personal property and other fixtures situated on the premises have been used for “the purpose of furthering the public nuisance.”

The hotel was constructed in 1972 and has had three house owners since its construction, according to online county data. The ultimate was SK Holding Group in 2021.