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Portside at Grande Dunes

901 Portside Dr, Myrtle Beach, SC 29572

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9.2
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46 reviews
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9.2
Review score
46 reviews
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    63%
  • 4 star
    22%
  • 3 star
    9%
  • 2 star
    4%
  • 1 star
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Myra

Child of resident/client

4.0 out of 5 stars

Caring Community

My father says he is very happy at Portside at Grande Dunes. The people are extremely caring and responsive. Enjoys happy hour and exercise classes.

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Portside at Grande Dunes

Our brand new luxurious and colorful community caters to the needs of all seniors. From seniors desiring an empowered, active and independent lifestyle to those who just need some daily assistance with bathing or eating, we help seniors and their families seeking memory care across all stages of dementia. In our specially designed neighborhood for seniors with memory loss, we offer a uniquely progressive Montessori-based program called SPARK. This program emphasizes resident’s preferences, ideas and independence. There are no buy-in fees and we offer colorful activities for everyone including happy hours, coffee tastings, wine of the month club, and many more. Our staff is fully dedicated to providing quality care that fulfills resident’s mental, physical, social, and emotional needs. If you need transportation assistance, help accessing tickets to a concert, or making a dinner reservation, don’t worry! Our Lifestyle Coordinator or concierge team will be happy to assist with all of your personal needs and requests. After all, simplifying your daily to-do list is our number one goal.

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We value health and hospitality here at Portside. For fitness enthusiasts, our state of the art fitness studio and trained staff provides strength training, group classes, core fitness, and yoga opportunities for...

Senior living options offered

  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care
  • Independent Living

Portside at Grande Dunes

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for Portside at Grande Dunes

9.2 out of 10
Review Score46 reviewsWrite a review
Overall Experience
4.4
Cleanliness
4.7
Friendliness
4.7
Care Services
4.4
Staff
4.6
Meals & Dining
3.8
Activities
4.4
Value for Cost
4.2

A Place for Mom has scored Portside at Grande Dunes with 9.2 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 11 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, Portside at Grande Dunes has 46 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 4.4 out of 5.

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Last Updated: 10/16/25

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Myra

Assisted Living

Family/friend

October 16, 2025

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Caring Community

My father says he is very happy at Portside at Grande Dunes. The people are extremely caring and responsive. Enjoys happy hour and exercise classes.

Rudy

Memory Care

Family/friend

October 16, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Great staff, pleasant environment

5 for everything except food, 3 for food. What we like the most about the community is the great staff and the open, quality environment. Yes, we would recommend Portside at Grande Dunes communities to other families based on the experience so far.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

September 15, 2025

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
4.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Review for Portside at Grande Dunes

Staff is friendly, it's in a beautiful and ideal location, beautifully decorated, SC house calls and visits, activities for everyone, transportation to appointments, etc. It allows my Mom to be independent while still feeling safe. Everything has been wonderful minus the food really needs improvement

P. B.

Assisted Living

Family/friend

June 6, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Review for Portside at Grande Dunes

My mom (92) has lived at Portside for a year now and is very pleased with her choice. She first downsized from her house of 50 years in upstate NY to a two bedroom condo by the ocean for 6 years, but when she stopped driving, socialization became more challenging. Now she has a spacious one bedroom apartment in independent living that accommodates her baby grand piano, communal meals in a lovely dining room with restaurant style service, multiple activities and personal care services including physical therapy right in the building, a beautiful salt water pool on the grounds, as well as transportation to local shopping, dining, and entertainment. This is most definitely an upscale senior community. I live just 4 minutes away so am in and out all the time and always find the staff friendly and professional and residents warm and welcoming. I highly recommend Portside and frankly, think I should have looked into it sooner as my mom's mood and even cognitive abilities seemed to improve due to socialization. I also took my widowed group to tour and one gentlemen moved in right away. He seems happier and more relaxed. Living alone, eating alone, even watching movies at home alone takes its toll and then there is the fear many seniors have of a health emergency and no one around to help. I would urge people to go look sooner rather than later so they understand what options actually exist.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

May 1, 2025

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Best in the area

The overall facility amenities and activities were the reason we chose Portside at Grande Dunes. FYI of all the facilities that we visited in the Myrtle Beach area this was the nicest by a lot.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

April 1, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Review for Portside at Grande Dunes

This place was great. Convenient to hospitals and medical facilities. Wonderful staff

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

March 28, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Overall would recommend

I love the warmth of residents and staff. The concierge is a huge benefit and blessing to visitors and residents. The activities director and staff do an excellent job along with transportation to and from church, appointments, grocery stores and banking.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

March 11, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Review for Portside at Grande Dunes

My mom and stepdad have been very happy at Portside, they are very engaged and stay busy. Physical therapy is on site and they are staying mobile in the independent care side. So much better than being home alone with not much interaction. They are eating much better too! It has been a blessing for our family.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Resident/client

February 28, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Would highly recommend

The staff are great and very caring. The food is good for an institutional setting. Everything is kept very clean and transportation is available if I need it. I have a small apartment with kitchen, living area, bedroom and bath. A little over 600 square feet. I also. Am able to have my cat with me. I don't participate in a lot of the activities other than trips to local restaurants or grocery stores. There are art and calligraphy classes as well as games played through out the week . plenty to keep busy

Matthew Nelson

Independent Living

Family/friend

December 4, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
4.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Great place for my mother

Portside was best overall place for mom in Myrtle Beach, SC. From the start the staff at Portside Grande Dunes was excellent. No complaints at all with staff or facilities at Portside I recommend Portside Grande Dunes to everyone I talk with. Mom deserves the best in her later years.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

December 4, 2024

3.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
3.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
3.0
Care Services
3.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
3.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Review for Portside at Grande Dunes

We picked them because it was newer and more modern. I would not recommend it to anyone. The marketers on quoted a price and when I got there she charged me [amount removed]more. It was too late to make other arrangements. I was very unimpressed with her throughout the stay.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

October 16, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
3.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
2.0

Portside at Grande Dunes Review

The facility is pretty and well maintained. As far as the food goes, I noticed it's a rush. On the independent side they should have it cooked there not Reheated which dries the food out to the point that they leave because they are unable to eat it. Also quite a few of the weight staff are very rude. They just drop the plates in front of the resident. They are not trained.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

August 26, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Our experience

Most everyone at Portside at Grande Dunes seems happy. They have a good Church service there onsite each week on Saturday, mom and Frank seem to be very happy. The staff is continuing to push them with physical therapy of some type pretty much every week day which is so good for them. They have many options for physical therapy too

Anonymous

Independent Living

Resident/client

August 15, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
3.0
Care Services
4.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Portside Review

Portside is one of the nicest in the area... I looked at 7 or 8. It is a little pricey but similar to others I visited.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Resident/client

July 18, 2024

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
4.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

More pros than cons

Food sometimes good they are trying to improve. Some of the menu items are not healthy or not good. Friendliness and activities very good. They don't recycle yet not good. . will work on it. Staff is good. Facility attractive. I would like to see more people in Independent living who are not on walkers.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

July 12, 2024

2.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
2.0
Care Services
3.0
Activities
2.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

Great first impression/not meeting expectations

My mom has made friends there and she likes her little social group but she does keep to her apartment a lot lately because the communication has been so bad there. Many changes over the year, on the third exec director, and have had too many chef changes and some weeks without a head chef, food has been bad. She pays for the meals it is all included but instead she buys groceries and cooks for herself. They lost the cleaning crew and the regular cleaning schedule lapsed, also included in her monthly rent, they never communicated what happened or when it would restart. My mom moved in under a special rate, locked in for two years, it is almost [fee removed] for a one bedroom apt, it includes all amenities, meals, weekly cleaning and rides to appointments but as you heard, she is not using much of it. In one year I am sure her rate will skyrocket, other folks with a 1 bedroom pay over [fee removed]!! She won't be able to pay that, especially if things stay as they are! So many other little things, she is always calling and complaining to me. I had a long talk with the prior executive director but a week later she was gone!

Anonymous

Independent Living

Resident/client

June 10, 2024

2.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
3.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

Not recommended

I was previously a resident at Portside at Grande Dunes. I would not recommend Portside to anyone. The meals were very repetitive and not that good. The two of us were paying almost $[removed] a month and it is definitely not worth it.

Paul

Independent Living

Family/friend

June 4, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Portside at Grande Dunes review

Portside at Grande Dunes community is a wonderful place staffed by caring people, we would give them all 5 stars. Based on the experience we have had so far, we would recommend this community to others - my 90 year old mother-in-law is very happy there. There is also a 10% discount for military service.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Resident/client

May 15, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Recommended

I am currently a resident at Portside at Grande Dunes and most everything has been great for me so far. The move in process went smoothly. The staff is great. The meals give good alternatives if you don't want the listed entrees. The other residents here are okay, but some tend to be very cliquish. Overall, I would recommend Portside at Grande Dunes to others.

George R

Independent Living

Family/friend

May 10, 2024

3.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
2.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
2.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

Not living up to marketing materials

My Mom has been living at Portside since November, 2022. We've seen constant turnover across key management positions, poor food service quality, and two price increases. It's a beautiful building, but maybe their wage schedule isn't right for the area.

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