Where to Stay in Charleston, SC: The Guide to Getting It Right

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.