This is the installation close to beach marker 81 and nearest to the Disney Beach House section of the beach by marker 80. We have enjoyed this section of the beach for four seasons now and appreciate the friendly folks who not only rent/set up beach chairs & umbrellas but also patrol the beach and perform lifeguard duties. This is a great beach and super attentive group that helps make a day at the beach way more comfortable and safe! read more

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We have used Shore Beach Service the last 3 years and always have a great experience. We like that they are life guard trained as well and have been great to answer questions. This year Hope and Joe helped us. They were willing to set up our chairs/umbrella where we requested and were friendly. We rented for 4 days and the chairs and umbrella were ready for us each morning. Much easier than schlepping our stuff to the beach. read more

Shore Beach Service - Beach Equipment Rentals Near Me - Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Shore beach service provides lifeguard service and beach rentals for Hilton Head's 13 miles of beaches. Their website says they have been serving Hilton Head since 1974, and that they are the island's premier beach equipment rental service, providing the rental of umbrellas and chairs anywhere on the beach. They are the only company on Hilton Head Island that sets up the equipment for you daily, and seem to have a beach monopoly as we were unaware of any other options. Even the resort hotels seem to use them to provide chairs. We met our lifeguard Julio each morning, who was very professional, polite and helpful. Our chairs and umbrellas were always set up for us and ready when we arrived. So, the service was very good. However the lounge chairs look old, they are wood framed and quite small. They are not very comfortable. Shore Beach Service charges $60 for one day for two chairs and two umbrellas. If renting on consecutive days, there is a price break. If the chairs were more comfortable, we would have been much happier with the rentals. read more

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have used Shore Beach Service for several years. Our attendant Joe Anthony this year was the best! very attentive and friendly.

the lifeguard Joe at Windsor Court provided great service and was very attentive. He checked up on us every day and even allowed us to move chairs when the group next to us got rowdy. See you next year read more

As a former employee, this place will forever be home to me. The work environment is amazing and truly was a home for me over the summer. Sure the hours are long, but you're spending them on the beach with your best friends. This company creates summers to remember along with high quality equipment meant to help vacationers have a memorable experience in Hilton head! read more

$40/day for two beach chairs and an umbrella on Coligny Beach. Cheaper for consecutive days. Come early (before 11) for open chairs. Just find an open one and wait for the beach patrol to come write your credit information down (CC or cash). Nice to be in the shade but pricey in my opinion read more

Worst rental service and worst staff I have ever encountered in my life. Witnessed them be hostile to a physically disabled man from his beach rental at 4:58pm because some teenager employee wanted to make happy hour with his friends. Besides for kicking you out every day at 4:59pm, the staff is rude, not reliable and gives your seat to other guests if you don't arrive on the beach each day early. Please find another local beach rental service or buy your own umbrella or chair which is cheaper in the long run. read more

In addition to functioning as the Lifeguard service on many public and privates beaches of the island, Shore Beach Service also sets up and takes down the rental beach chairs all over parts of Hilton Head. The rental chairs can be reserved in advance, or they can be rented day-of by talking to the lifeguard. Your rental includes two folding beach chairs with optional foot rests and an umbrella that's large and provides good coverage of the two chairs. The folding beach chairs do not fold down to a flat surface, but they go from 90 degrees to 130-ish degrees. There is no flat surface or cup holders for the chairs. PROS: -The lifeguard/chair rental guy was super friendly. He checked in at the beginning of our week, and he'd wave to us when he saw us in our chairs on other days. While patrolling the beach, he stopped by and mentioning that one of our party members was getting a bit red and might want to reapply sunscreen. He just generally seemed like a friendly guy. -Chairs were comfy. Chairs are pretty comfortable - especially with the footrests. They were easily something I'd be happy sitting in for the entirety of the day - especially as the chairs backrest angle adjusts easily. As the sun changes throughout the day, you might have to move the chairs around a little bit to stay under the umbrella's shade, but it's not nearly as much as you might think. The umbrellas provide a good amount of shade. -Umbrella stayed in the ground really well. We have pretty decent winds every day (15+), and the umbrellas didn't move an inch. CONS: -I'm surprised that there's no table or "flat surface" anywhere near the chair and umbrella set-up. I've seen that at other beach rentals I've gone to. There's really no where to set my sunglasses, book, water, or anything else. We had to bring our own table - and bringing our own furniture starts to defeat the point of renting the chairs to begin with. Even a small table ledge that attached to the umbrella would be helpful. -Chairs are taken down at 5PM. While they were really good about only doing it at 5PM on the dot, 5PM still felt pretty early. We regularly would want to stay out past 5PM - but our chairs just weren't there to stay with us. -Unsure who's responsible for "combing" the beach near Villamare, but the chairs were set up right in front of the line of sticks/twigs that had washed up from the ocean at high tide every day. These sticks were never removed during off-season (maybe they are during peak season?). This meant that anyone who wanted to lay out or play near the chairs had to do their own groundskeeping before they could throw down a towel or chair. read more

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These are the lifeguard, and chair & umbrella services you see on the beach. Although we've used them on and off for several years, this year's rental of chairs & umbrella will be our last. To start, some of the staff are plenty friendly and helpful. Having the chairs and umbrellas taken care of so you just need to bring a book & a towel are very convenient. By it ends there. We rented chairs for two weeks- two setups, and our cost was $630. That's a chunk of change for renting chairs on a beach. I was on the fence about this and now have buyer's remorse because so many people come out with pretty comfortable looking Walmart specials and set themselves up. Today was a final straw when basically we were unkindly told at 5:00 "folks we need the equipment back now, it's 5." That was a tad offputting. We know the rental ends at 5:00 but this kid just was not trained (or perhaps should not be dealing with the public). There were more than half the chairs empty and he just could've been more pleasant and gone fore the vacant setups first. Does this sound like somewhat adolescent? Well it would be if he hadn't flipped someone's towel off a chair 2 minutes later which through their music speaker onto the sand. They got really mad and he just was not equipped with the attitude to apologize. My wife called to complain, in detail, about these incidents, and from the other end of the phone, she was told "we'll talk to the staff." Beach Patrol... I don't pay hundreds of dollars to be treated rudely. It's a service. We're the customer. BUH BYE! read more

These negative reviews sent me to use a rental company for beach gear; that was silly. Chairs and umbrellas out as early at 8am , sometimes earlier, and picked up by 5pm sometimes later. Staff checked in to be sure they were in the proper location. I am not sure what all the gripping is about; this is one way to avoid dragging 50 lbs of stuff down the beach path. read more

Nasty customer service experience when canceling one day of our three day rental due to weather. I hope you don't have to call them for a refund. Not friendly, at all, or professional. I just wanted to cancel one day. I may not ever see my refund based on the exchange I had with customer service. Also, when you rent chairs and umbrellas, there is a different charge for executive days. It was $94 for three days. My refund is $27. Should be $31.33, correct? This was not explained when we rented. Just a couple dollars, but..... read more

Negative experience - never renting again. We rent an umbrella/chairs every year for as long as we have been vacationing in Hilton Head. Long story short: one day we were on the beach next to a large group of people playing their music at an extremely loud level, to each their own they are on vacation as well, so we just moved our chairs, no big deal. Or so I thought. The next day I see the woman setting up chairs and kindly asked her if today she could set them up in a different area (mind you this was maybe a 50 yard difference) as we moved them the day prior and and gave the reason. She aggressively then proceeded to lecture me how she rode all over for 15 minutes looking for the chairs as she thought they were lost and that if we move them again to let someone know. Okay lesson learned, we had no idea we had to do that, no like we moved them off the beach or something. We saw where she set them which was right where the big group of people set up their things, we decided to move them to our desired location and then would give her a heads up so she knew where they were. As my husband was in the process of moving them, this woman speeds over like a bat out of hell and proceeds to yell at us "ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS LET ME KNOW!?" in which I told her we were going to after they were moved... Then proceeded to give us attitude about how she is liable for lost equipment, it's part of her job then how our chairs weren't near any others....well no kidding as this was before 8am. I tried to tell her we were going to inform her after we moved them, but this miserable woman clearly was too far gone. Feel sorry for her actually. I understand these workers are short staffed, overworked and dealing with a huge influx of vacationers has to be frustrating (clearly for this woman to be that miserable at 7:55 am) however as my husband and I both deal with the public every day for our occupations there is a certain level of professionalism that one must maintain while on the job especially towards clients/guests. I have never in my life been spoken to in the manner that we were spoken to let alone when I am on vacation paying over $250 + a TIP for services. Needless to say we called to cancel our rentals for the rest of the week, decided we would rather drag our own stuff down to the beach than be berated for moving a chair 50 yards. The manager (Mike) was very understanding and apologized for this woman's behavior. Moral of the story: If you are going to rent the chairs go for it, it's a great treat, but if you move them and don't tell anyone be ready for a scolding from Beach Chair Patrol Karen. read more