The resort features two 90-foot long, outdoor heated swimming pools, one for families and another, 50 yards away, reserved for adults. A seasonal children's club provides supervised activities for the kids (surcharges may apply). A wooden deck, sheltered by sand dunes and overlooking the white-sand beach, contains 2 six-person spa tubs.
The resort rents adult, child, and adult-child tandem bicycles suitable for beach and Hilton Head Island's hundreds of miles of bike paths. Also available for rent are beach chairs, umbrellas, beach toys, and boogie boards. An independent operator on the beach also rents beach chairs,umbrellas, and boogie boards, as well as AquaBikes, sailboats, and low-slung three-wheel beach buggies.
The 2,000-acre Palmetto Dunes residential/resort community, of which the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort is a part, offers three golf courses: the Robert Trent Jones Oceanfront, the George Fazio, and the Arthur Hills. Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center offers 23 clay and 2 Nova ProBounce courts. (Eight courts lighted for night play.) Instruction is available.
Palmetto Dunes includes 11 miles of lagoons, with rental kayaks, canoes, and pedal boats available at Fish Creek Landing one mile from the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort, along with bicycles, adult-child tandem bicycles, kiddie carts, and rollerblades.
Set on Broad Creek, an estuary running through Hilton Head Island, Mediterranean-village-style Shelter Cove Harbour 1.5 miles from the resort offers deep-sea and inshore fishing charters, sport crabbing, sailboat and power-boat rentals, sightseeing and nature excursions, and dinner cruises.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.