Myrtle Beach Door 6: $10 Parking, $1.50 Buses, and Beating the Rental Car Reflex at MYR

Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR) is small, but the decision you make in the first ten minutes after landing is not. Step out of the Main Terminal at Door 6 and the airport quietly hands you a full menu: taxis, Uber and Lyft, a $1.50 Coast RTA bus, and a surprisingly broad spread of Myrtle Beach airport parking options, from a $10 Economy Lot to a $25 curbside valet that is a 1‑minute walk.

This is one of those airports where the numbers are clear enough that you can make a good choice in under 30 seconds.

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Quick verdicts: 4 days vs 7 days, parking vs rides, in one place

If you just want the answer, start here. I am assuming a mid‑range ride estimate ($25) for Uber/taxi into town and the airport’s own floor of $18/day for rentals.

1. Per‑person cost: 4 days vs 7 days, no rental vs rental

Without rental car

• 4‑day stay, 2 adults

  • Uber both ways at ~$25 each way: $50 total = $25 per person
  • One leg on Coast RTA Route 15S/15N at $1.50 per person: $28 total = $14 per person

• 7‑day stay, 4 people

  • Uber both ways at ~$25 each way: $50 total = $12.50 per person
  • One leg on Coast RTA at $1.50 per person: $28 total = $7 per person

Add two day‑trip Ubers at ~$20 each way (golf, outlets): about $80 total, or $20 per person for four people. You are still under $35 per person all‑in for the week.

With rental car at $18/day

From car rentals: prices “as low as $18/day,” with 10–20 minutes to most central Myrtle Beach areas.

• 4 days: 4 × $18 = $72 (before gas / hotel parking)
• 7 days: 7 × $18 = $126

Per‑person floor, ignoring fuel and any parking:

• 4 days, 2 adults: $36 per person
• 7 days, 4 adults: $31.50 per person

Now layer airport parking if that car sits at MYR at either end:

• Economy Parking Lot: $10/day
• Long Term Parking Lot: $12/day

Example, 7 days with car left in Economy:

• Car: $126
• Economy Lot: 7 × $10 = $70
• Total: $196 = $49 per person for four people, before gas

Seven days of “lazy” car ownership plus on‑airport parking is roughly a $15–20 per person mistake versus using buses and rideshares intelligently.

2. Myrtle Beach airport parking prices at a glance

From MYR’s parking pages and our own parking dataset for MYR, your core choices:

• Economy Parking Lot: $10/day, about a 10 minute walk
• Long Term Parking Lot: $12/day, about a 10 minute walk
• Short Term Parking Lot: $21/day, $3/hr
• Short Term Lot: $32/day, $1/hr, 5 minute walk
• Curbside Valet: $25/day, $7/hr, 1 minute walk
• Cell Phone Lot: $0/day

If you are leaving a car more than a few hours, the honest decision is $10 Economy vs $12 Long‑Term vs $25 Valet, not a vague “airport parking is expensive.”

3. Coast RTA at $1.50 vs Uber vs taxi from Door 6

At Door 6, MYR prices your choices very clearly:

• Coast RTA Route 15S / 15N: $1.50, tagged in our public transport data as the cheapest way into the city, with Route 15N at 25–35 minutes to central Myrtle Beach
• Uber from MYR: $15–30, 10–20 minutes to oceanfront resorts
• Taxi stand at MYR: $20–35, 10–20 minutes to oceanfront resorts

One person landing at a reasonable hour should feel slightly silly paying $25 for a 10‑minute car when Coast RTA Route 15S/15N is right there for $1.50.

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Best way from MYR to Myrtle Beach: $1.50 bus vs Uber vs taxi

Door 6 is the hinge between Myrtle Beach airport parking and ground transport. MYR lists the options cleanly, so I will do the same.

From public transportation:

• Coast RTA Route 15S

  • Mode: Bus
  • $1.50
  • Daily, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • Flagged as the cheapest way into the city

• Coast RTA Route 15N Bus

  • Mode: Bus
  • $1.50
  • 25–35 minutes to central Myrtle Beach

From Uber:

• Mode: Rideshare
• $15–30
• 10–20 minutes to oceanfront resorts

From the taxi stands:

• Mode: Taxi
• $20–35
• 10–20 minutes to oceanfront resorts

How it plays out in real life:

• Solo traveler, light bag, landing between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
  Use Coast RTA Route 15S or 15N at $1.50. Even if Uber landed at the low end, you are giving up maybe 10–15 minutes for a $13–24 saving. That trade is worth it.

• Two adults on a long weekend
  Uber at a mid‑range $25 is $12.50 per person. Coast RTA is $1.50 per person. If the bus stop is not wildly out of your way, the price gap is real.

• Three or four people, or anyone wrestling car seats
  Uber and taxis win on balance. One car at $25 split four ways is $6.25 per person. You will not match that convenience with bus transfers.

• Late‑night arrivals or ultra‑early flights
  Treat the bus as a bonus, not a promise. Rideshare or taxi are the default when the Coast RTA span does not line up with your schedule.

The missing piece here is psychological, not numerical. People default to “airport = rental” or “airport = taxi.” At MYR, the airport is explicitly telling you that the $1.50 Coast RTA Route 15S/15N is the budget play, and the pricing backs that up.

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Myrtle Beach airport parking prices: $10 economy vs $25 valet

Our internal data for MYR parking tracks a dozen distinct parking entries on and around the field, which is far more granular than the single “garage” blob so many airports rely on. That structure makes the tradeoffs at MYR refreshingly obvious.

Here are the relevant ones, grouped by what you actually pay.

Economy vs long‑term: the default for trips

From the economy and long‑term entries:

• Economy Lot / Economy Parking Lot

  • Economy Lot
  • Economy Parking Lot
  • $10/day, about a 10 minute walk

• Long Term Lot / Long Term Parking / Long Term Parking Lot

  • Long Term Lot
  • Long Term Parking
  • Long Term Parking Lot
  • $12/day, about a 10 minute walk

For any stay of a day or more, start here. The $2 spread between $10 and $12 per day over a week is $14 total. Choose based on where your flight times and walking comfort land, not imagined “premium” differences.

Short‑term vs valet: paying for proximity

From the short‑term and valet entries:

• Short Term Parking Lot / Short Term Parking

  • Short Term Parking Lot
  • Short Term Parking
  • $21/day, $3/hr

• Short Term Lot (separate entry)

  • Short Term Lot
  • $32/day, $1/hr, 5 minute walk

• Curbside Valet

  • Curbside Valet
  • $25/day, $7/hr, 1 minute walk

This is where the lazy tax shows itself:

• 4 days in Economy at $10/day: $40
• 4 days in Long‑term at $12/day: $48
• 4 days in Valet at $25/day: $100

Choosing valet over economy for a long weekend is literally a $60 premium for shaving perhaps 9 minutes off your walk. Sometimes that is defensible. Most of the time, it is not.

Cell Phone Lot and short‑term: smart pickups

The Cell Phone Lot deserves more love:

• Cell Phone Lot: $0/day

You sit there, you wait, you pay nothing. Pair that with short‑term’s hourly pricing if you want to greet someone inside rather than circling Door 6.

MYR’s short‑term areas are structurally simple:

• Priced by the hour, with flat daily caps at $21 or $32 depending on which short‑term entry you use

In practice:

• Use Cell Phone Lot while the flight is in the air.
• Hop into Short Term Parking Lot or the Short Term Lot when they text from baggage claim.
• You are paying a handful of dollars instead of committing to an overnight rate.

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Myrtle Beach airport (MYR) transport vs parking: which menu fits your trip

At this point the decision is “which part of the Door 6 ecosystem is mine,” not “do I take a taxi.”

Think in scenarios.

4‑day local flying out of MYR

You are leaving your own car, no one else to split costs with.

• Cheapest honest choice: Economy Lot at $10/day
  • 4 days = $40
• Convenience splurge: Long Term Lot at $12/day
  • 4 days = $48
• Absolutely necessary only: Curbside Valet at $25/day
  • 4 days = $100

You do not need an article to see where that is heading. Economy is the default, long‑term the gentle upgrade, valet the special‑circumstances tool.

7‑day visitor with a beachfront hotel

You are not leaving a car at the airport, you are just arriving.

• Door 6 to hotel, hotel to Door 6 at trip’s end:
  • Coast RTA Route 15S/15N at $1.50 each way
  • Uber at $15–30
  • Taxi at $20–35

Over a week, most guests are perfectly fine with:

• Coast RTA one way to feel smug about the $1.50 fare
• A car back (Uber or taxi) when the sunburn and luggage hit

Mathematically, mixing the $1.50 bus and mid‑range $25 ride is a sweet spot: $28 total for two legs instead of $50, without anyone being miserable.

7‑day rental car family

If you truly will drive every day, fine, own it.

• Car at $18/day floor: $126 for the week
• If you are a local leaving your own car at MYR at either end, tack on parking in Economy or Long‑term at $10–12/day

If that car will mostly sit in a hotel lot while everyone walks between beach and pool, the arithmetic is blunt:

• No rental + Myrtle Beach airport parking avoided entirely

  • Under $35 per person is easy over a week

• Rental + on‑airport parking + likely hotel parking

  • You are living closer to $50+ per person before fuel

The car should justify itself with actual daily use, not “feels easier” at Door 6.

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When a MYR rental car at $18/day actually beats Uber

I am not anti‑rental. I am anti‑reflex rental.

Use a car if your pattern looks like this:

• Daily tee times at courses not realistically served by Coast RTA or hotel shuttles
• A rental home set well back from the strip, without walkable groceries or dining
• A group that would otherwise be buying three or four Uber rides a day

From car rentals:

• Prices as low as $18/day
• 10–20 minutes to reach most central Myrtle Beach areas

Now ask a very boring question: “How many paid rides would we actually take without a car?”

If the answer for a 7‑day stay is something like:

• Airport roundtrip: 2 rides
• Daily dinner rides: 7 nights × 2 rides per night = 14 rides
• Plus 4 extra errand / golf / outlet runs: 8 rides

You are at roughly 24 rides. Even if you optimistically averaged $15 a ride, you would be staring at $360.

Against that, a car floor of $126 for the week is a solid deal, even once you add some fuel and possibly a bit of on‑ or off‑airport Myrtle Beach airport parking.

To be fair, last autumn when I was mapping out my own shoulder‑season trips, I had to remind myself that convenience is not a moral failing, it is just a line item. The constraint I would add, from too many years of watching people overbuy features, is simple: if your “no car” ride estimate is under ten rides for the week, MYR’s own numbers argue against picking up keys at Door 6. Coast RTA Route 15S/15N, Uber from MYR, and the taxi stand at MYR exist precisely so you do not have to.

The airport has done the rare thing of putting all the pieces of the puzzle in one place. Your job is just to pick the right ones. Where do you fall: $1.50 bus loyalist, or valet‑and‑forget‑it devotee?