Tourism

How did COVID-19 change your travel plans in SC last year? We want to know

Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach MyrtleBeach

The second year of the coronavirus pandemic, 2021, brought a renaissance of travel to South Carolina’s coast. Restaurants were packed. Practically everything anyone wanted to do had a line. Last-minute vacations got a whole lot more expensive.

Plenty of people had to cancel, or modify, trips because of COVID-19. Some found out they were infected days before heading out. Others were exposed on their trips. Some even canceled trips because they feared getting COVID as we saw successive surges of the virus in the winter, summer and late fall.

How did your travel plans change in 2021? Did you forever change the way you travel? Do you drive everywhere instead of flying now? Did you retire early to travel more? Or sell your house, buy an RV and decide to live on the road?

We want to hear about it all. Travel isn’t the same as what it used to be, and it’ll never fully return to all of that. (For better or worse, QR code menus will probably never disappear.)

How was your year for travel? Normal? Strange? Stressful? Let us know in the form below. Or click here if you have trouble. Your responses will be used to inform future stories on how travel changed in 2021.

This story was originally published January 5, 2022 at 11:22 AM.

Chase Karacostas
The Sun News
Chase Karacostas writes about tourism in Myrtle Beach and across South Carolina for McClatchy. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 with degrees in Journalism and Political Communication. He began working for McClatchy in 2020 after growing up in Texas, where he has bylines in three of the state’s largest print media outlets as well as the Texas Tribune covering state politics, the environment, housing and the LGBTQ+ community.
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