Do not go!!! This was our first and last time at this place. We stayed here on our way back home from Panama City Beach FL; we had tickets to a concert in Birmingham AL. We had reserved a Lake site, needless to say it was a pond site, the concrete pads was small, and no grass around ours, nothing but Alabama Clay. We never complained about any of that. One thing that was really a dilemma was the fact that children under the age of 14 couldn’t go to the pool alone. With the pool and the real lake was about ½ mile up the road away from the so called lake view sites, they were sites on the hill but no much to them either. Well, to the real reason for this review is that on Friday we were going to all get ready for the concert, I sent the girls (age 12) to the shower house to take showers, they came back and said that the water was brown and making weird noises. I seen one of the camp ground workers, (I had seen him riding by often in the grounds, real friendly man) so I flagged him down and asked about what was wrong with the water. He said that the owner, (Captain Jerry) had drained the water the day before to paint the inside of the tank. What I said, what am I to do. He said I could go up to the office and talk to the Captain’s wife. In the mean time he called on his radio and checked the water at the pool house and the reply was that they had clean water, so we got our stuff together and went on the hill to the pool house, by that time no water. Well, them we went to the office and I told her the problem, she acted like she was too busy to talk to us, (she had a motor home to check in and I am sure she did not want them to over hear us that we did not have any water). So she said that she called him and he will get to it. I asked if they were any where we could take a shower,(hopefully maybe she had a back up plan if something like this happened, a motel or something) she said that we could go to the holding tank and wait and see how long it would be to get water. We stopped at the shower houses and no water so I walked down to the holding tank while my husband was taking to one of the other helpers, When I approached the Captain, I knew it was him cause he was wearing a Captain hat, he had already had a attitude, he said he did not know what was wrong with it and I told him that we needed to leave for the concert, and in intolerable words, he said that they was nothing he could do, he was slinging his arms around and using a real loud tone towards me, he had me in tears, I told him he had no right to talk to me that way. And I never heard either one of them say that they were sorry for the inconvenience or any thing. He told us that if we did not like it we could pack up and leave the campground, if we were not already leaving the next morning we would have left then. If we did not leave within minutes we were going to be late for the concert. We went to the pool and wet our selves down with no shampoo or soap and went to the concert, sticky and I felt dirty the whole time. This was the worse camping experience we have ever had. I hope this man sells before this ship sinks.

A real quite and peaceful place, on dirt road. Friendly staff, float the river on tubes, paddle boats or canoe. Fishing pond, basket ball, and bean-o. A great place to get your self together.

This campground is one of the best campgrounds in Towmsend, that is not unless you want a site that has no hookups at all. The staff is friendly, pool is cleaned daily, and the staff really keep up with everything on the grounds. I noticed that some one was driving around to look at the campground and the staff used radios to make sure that the car was not "invading" any campers. That made me feel a little bit more relaxed about leaving home. The office staff was very friendly and helped answer questions about some of our mountain adventures we took while there, we were able to rent our tubes at the office. My 12 year old daughter is very active and she never once said that she was bored. They are many other campgrounds here but alot of them look like that they are hard to get in, no trees, or no pool.

We stayed Memorial Day Weekend.It was also Black Bike week. This was our second time camping here. It was as great as the first. We all had so much to do, we didn't have time to do the minauture golf. I have one daughter and took three more girls with us. I never feel that the girls are in any danger any place they are at in the campground. They got to try the rock climbing experience yesterday. I love that they have things to do for the children,(crafts, games, and fun.) The pools are always clean. I love the lazy river, it is so relaxing even though all of the tubes were in, it still was nice. I read one bad review on Pirate land about all of the teens and it being loud. When we rented the golf cart the staff told us that no one can drive that don't have liences. None of my girls drove it.. But I did hear alot of the bikes at the Campgroud next door at all times at night. The staff at Pirateland was friendly, the whole campground was clean. We have looked at other campgrounds in Myrtle Beach, none match up to Pirateland. It is a FAMILY ORIENTED CAMPGROUND!!! I found nothing wrong with any thing. We will go back again. If They had concrete pads I would rate it a 12.