The show is the third of three
Art in the Park runs Saturday 14 November and Sunday 15 November 2026 at Valor Park in The Market Common. Both days run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild hosts, and the guild lists three weekends for 2026: 18 and 19 April, 10 and 11 October, and 14 and 15 November.
The guild dates itself to 1969 and the show to 1972. Its events page calls this the 53rd year of the show.
Two free days, twelve show hours
The district calendar carries a cost field that reads Free. The guild page carries no admission line and no ticket link. A visitor pays nothing to walk the park.
Twelve hours of juried art sit inside one weekend, six on Saturday and six on Sunday. That is the draw a property is being asked to price against.
The guild publishes what an artist pays
The guild publishes the booth fee at $140 for non-members and $125 for members, with a $10 judging fee for an artist new to the show. Fees are not refundable, and the guild tells a new artist to pay the $10 first and hold the booth fee until an acceptance arrives.
The same page sets a display rule of 40 lbs per leg. Contact runs through JoAnne Utterback at jutterback@sc.rr.com on (843) 446-3830.
The fair publishes its cost side in full. The room in between is the only unpublished number in the weekend.
The district publishes no room and no shuttle
A search of the district site for lodging returns zero records, for shuttle zero, and for hotel one record, a film title in a summer movie series.
One free service is worth knowing. The management office at 4017 Deville Street holds bags at no charge with a valid ID, Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and no reservation. Every other hour routes to a 24-hour property ambassador on (843) 602-4181.
14 November is a Saturday. The weekend falls outside the no-reservation window, so the ambassador number is the route.
The published rates beside the park
The visitor site's hotel panel on the event page sorts properties by distance from Valor Park. Crown Reef sits 1.53 miles out, Compass Cove 1.79, Paradise 1.87 and Breakers 4.54. The deal cards on the same site publish Paradise ocean view rooms from $60 a night and Breakers oceanfront one-bedroom suites from $89 a night. The Crown Reef card prints no rate, and every figure is a starting rate before tax and fees. Read 24 October 2026.
Two nights at $60 is $120. Two nights at $89 is $178.
Which two nights
A Friday arrival on 13 November and a Sunday departure on 15 November buys both show days on paper. Noon checkout on Sunday cuts the second day at noon, which leaves four of the twelve show hours.
A Saturday arrival and a Monday departure covers both days whole. The ask that follows is direct: quote the Saturday to Monday pair at the Friday to Sunday rate, or hold the room to a 3 p.m. Sunday checkout.
The ask, in numbers
The published floor is $60 a night, and the two-night bill at that floor is $120. Put a $25 resort fee and a $20 parking charge beside it and the extras come to $90 across two nights. That is 75 percent of the room bill, added after the rate conversation ends.
Ask for the fee schedule first. Then ask for a rate at $60 with the fees waived, or a quoted total that names every fee. A property that answers with one combined number gives a buyer something to compare.
South Carolina sits outside the restricted set on the hotelhaggle seller of travel page, so the request routes through the platform. The service sends one offer to 50 or more hotels, returns responses inside 24 to 72 hours, and adds no markup.
What to get in writing
Six items close the file. The nightly rate for 14 and 15 November. Every mandatory fee, named. The cancellation date. The checkout hour. The bag hold, because the Sunday show ends at 4 p.m. The parking position at the property.
The fair hands the city two free days. A buyer who arrives with the booth fee and the twelve show hours in hand is asking a property to price a weekend that already costs the guest nothing at the gate.
