The Marriott Hilton Head Golf Resort draws thousands of vacationers a year to Palmetto Dunes, the 2,000- acre South Carolina residential and resort community where guests will find three championship golf courses, 25 tennis courts, and tons of fishing, sailing and beachside fun to keep them busy 24/7. Families can rent resort bikes for riding the beach and Hilton Head's hundreds of miles of paths. In the summer, children 3-12 can participate in supervised activities. Water lovers can rent kayaks and canoes for navigating 11 miles of lagoons. On the beach, entrepreneurs rent chairs, umbrellas, boogie boards, kayaks, sailboats and buggies. Deep-sea fishing charters, crabbing, sailboat and power-boat rentals, nature excursions and dinner cruises await guests at Shelter Cove Harbour near the Marriott.

All this activity surely will make guests hungry, so they can enjoy Conroy's, the resort's restaurant named after South Carolina author and frequent guest Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides, Lords of Discipline). The restaurant dishes up meat, chilled seafood platters, cornmeal-crusted oysters, she-crab soup, lobster, horseradish-crusted salmon and other delicacies. Quinn's II and The Caf� also serve their own brands of American fare.

The Hilton Head resort includes an outdoor Olympic pool, children's pool, indoor heated pool, whirlpool, sauna, and massage, reflexology and facial treatments. Corporate travelers can get their work done in the business center.

The 512 guestrooms feature complimentary coffee, wet bars, safes, work desks, refrigerators, Internet access and balconies.

Travelers flying into Hilton Head are four miles from the local airport and 44 miles from the Savannah (Ga. International Airport.

Throughout the country, there are resorts - and then there are the quintessential resorts like the Marriott Hilton Head Golf Resort for families, couples on romantic getaways, groups, other leisure travelers and corporate types from throughout the world.