Many vacationers have found the gambling trips to be a fun excursion on their travels to the Myrtle Beach area. Since their arrival in the late 1990s, the casino gambling boats have been steeped in controversy, and bills threatening to ban operations failed to pass the South Carolina legislature, and the boats continue operating legally. The boats take their passengers on infamous 'cruises to nowhere' a few miles off the coast, into international waters, outside the USA jurisdiction, where it's legal to gamble. There are two Las Vegas style casino gambling boats in the Myrtle Beach area, docked at the historic waterfront in Little River, a quaint, unincorporated village on the northern end of the Grand Strand.
