Portside at Grande Dunes

Gisela

I toured Portside at Grande Dunes. It was great. The people are very caring and very nice. The place itself is beautiful. A very nice place. They had meals and once a week cleaned the apartment. They have a lot of amenities. Saltwater pool and it's a warm pool. They have all kinds of activities. They have craft and exercise training.

Donna

Portside at Grande Dunes was beautiful. It was very clean and all the amenities were nice. The apartment was also beautiful. Everything was brand new and spacious. Lauren was very helpful and very knowledgeable. There were plenty of activities. They take trips to the food store/Target/Walmart, they have happy hour three times a week, reading clubs, and movies. It's unbelievable. You can order off the menu and it looked like they had a whole lot of different selections.

Kim

Portside at Grande Dunes was beautiful, bright, cheery, and clean. Our tour was very nice. All of our questions were answered. It was a very thorough tour, and we were just very pleased overall. Everybody was very friendly, attentive, and very nice. We saw the beauty salon, the activity room, and the exercise room. We saw the entire facility. Everything was just very nice. We were very pleased with what we saw. We saw the dining room.

Mary

I visited the independent living at Portside at Grande Dunes but was given information about the assisted living option. The person that showed us around did a great job. I was able to give her a heads up on the kinds of things that my dad could use extra information on, like kind of understanding the difference between independent living and assisted living. She did a great job of explaining that and how that works. One of the advantages of Portside is that people, depending on their needs, can start in one place like independent living, and then if the need arises, there is another level of care that they could move to within the complex. We met several people along the way, and they were very friendly and engaging. They seemed very nice during the time that we were visiting. My dad got a copy of the menus, but we did not stay for a meal. It's fairly new, so it's very beautiful inside. There were nice seating spaces on the first floor and there were residents that were seated there, kind of chatting. It seemed like people were very engaged. The nice thing about Portside is each of the independent living units has a small balcony off of the living room. It's got like a French door that goes out to a balcony and it's really nice that my dad could go out and have his cup of coffee outside without having to go down outside of the building. It's right off of his own living room if he chose to live there. They had a very nice courtyard off of their luncheon area. They have a heated pool that we were able to see. They had very nice amenities throughout.

Stacie

Mandy toured us around Portside at Grande Dunes. She was very knowledgeable and friendly. She made sure that she spoke to my aunt asking what she wanted versus what we wanted. She was very friendly and accommodating. It's a brand new place, so it was really pretty. I enjoyed looking at it. They have activities, outings, a beauty shop, a walking area, and a kids zone area if you have kids visiting with you.

Jason W.

My sister and I toured this community at Portside at Grand Dunes. The name Grand Dunes is a luxury name within the Greater Myrtle Beach area. We except the same when going to tour this community. Grand Dunes name says it all, unfortunately so does the price tag, over $7k for my Mom if she lived in the Assisted Living and if lived in Memory side closer to $9-$10k. Wow… guess paying for all the bells & whistles. Honestly, all the amenities appealed more to us as kids, but my Mom “kept saying that was nice, but she would NEVER uses those amenities, especially cause all of the extra fees associated with the amenities. We asked about flooding due to the closeness to the beach and before this neighborhood was build, this area flooded every time it rained more than 2” inches of rain. They said it never flooded. Don’t believe that, all of their generators are build up 16 feet… don’t believe them. Now if your a millionaire, definitely the community for you. We will be looking elsewhere for a more affordable community.