Beach is like a magnet, sun bath, surfing, swimming or just staring on wave. Beach could help you reduce your stress and that is the reason of many people visiting beaches each year.
During holiday beach also means crowd of people, for some that kind of beach is not what you looking for, although an empty beach for some people are less interested as well. Some resorts might have facilities for their guest on enjoying the beach in private.

Some surfing events or music events on the side of the beaches are good attraction for some tourists, but those events you could find it everywhere.
Other than that in some countries in Asia, they have special events that being held in beaches such as traditional ceremony to get rid of evil spirit, these kind of activities, we might not get every day and you only could find it in there.

Picking some hotels on nearby beach might be a problem for you, rather then surfing the internet or walking door to door comparing the facilities, it could be more easier asking it on travel agency. They could help you out on those problems.
Talking about finest hotel, check out hilton head south carolina which offer world class facilities.

There’s nothing wrong preparing before you leave, make sure you have these items on your travel bag, items such as sunscreen, sunglasses, portable music player (if you like some music), swimsuits, slipper (sometimes its provided as complimentary on some hotels), or some books for reading.
Enjoy.