Charleston hotels are as stunning as the city, think antebellum mansions turned boutique inns, rooftop pools overlooking church steeples, and grand historic properties on the waterfront. Stay downtown for walkability or beachside at Isle of Palms for sand at your door.
Charleston just closed a chapter. For over a decade, Carnival Sunshine turned Union Pier into a floating small city every few days. Passengers rolled suitcases past cobblestones and disappeared onto gangways. That scene doesn’t happen anymore, and as of this summer, it’s not happening at all, even for quick stops. Let’s break down what actually … Read more
Charleston, South Carolina is one of America’s great golf cities, with courses ranging from a $20 muni walk-on to the toughest layout Pete Dye ever built. Here’s where to tee it up, when to go, and what the tourists miss. Is Charleston a Good Golf Town? To ask the question is to answer it, but … Read more
Charleston is one of those cities where your choice of accommodation genuinely makes or breaks the trip. Stay downtown and you walk cobblestone streets at night, eat at James Beard-nominated restaurants, and absorb 300 years of American history at your own pace. Stay at the beach and you wake up to the Atlantic, bike the shoreline, and drive into one of America’s greatest cities for dinner. Stay somewhere in between and you get a diluted version of both.
Nobody warns you about this before you book. So let’s fix that.