Tell me about Charleston

Capital of WV. They make a mean chew bar.

If you've never been and can make it work, I'd suggest doing a long weekend in Charleston with just the wife and sticking to Charleston proper.

Nothing against family trips, but it seems like tackling it as a couple the first time would be most enjoyable.

What do you like to do? What are you looking for on the trip? We go yearly typically for our anniversary...will be back the first week in April.

For a first timer, I would say do Ft Sumter, one of the plantations (Magnolia is our favorite), walk the Battery and tour one of the houses down there.

After you do those, check out the ships at Patriots Point, go to Drayton Hall and make the drive out to John's Island and Wasawbaw to see the Angel Oak and the Tea plantation.

We stay at Isle of Palms for the beach. We stay near the pier, but the rental agency we use (Island Realty) also handles Wild Dunes. The staff is excellent, prices are great, never had a problem. We have eaten at the Wild Dunes marina before, and driving through it looked really nice.

There have been several threads on this board over the last few months about Charleston with lots of good info. I know I have posted in two or three. I'm on my phone or else I would link. Search my post history to find them.

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Back on point, when are you going?

If you go during baseball season, go to a Riverdogs game and hit up the food at the game.

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Thanks for the info.

Stay at the Vendue Hotel. Eat at SNOB, FIG and the Peninsula Grill. Go to Ft. Sumpter. Great city to just spend hours walking the streets. It is a great restaurant city. When I travel, I judge a restaurant by whether I would go there if it were in New Orleans. They are many restaurants in Charleston that meet that criteria. It reminds me of a clean, safe and much less exciting version of New Orleans.

Wife, kids and myself just looking forward to relax on the beach and eat some great food. Sounds like a perfect spot for us. Thanks for the info all.

Here now. Staying at the Dewberry...so far we've eaten at The Darling Oyster Bar, Obstinate Daughter and PIE Bake Shoppe. Dinner at FIG tonight and Husk tomorrow night. Food so far has been great.

Took a car out to Ft. Moultrie today and walked along the beach on Sullivan's island. Did quite a bit of damage to the wallet on King Street.

City Market and Rainbow Row/home tours tomorrow.

Charleston is beautiful but no one seems to get in a hurry to do anything around here.

Nashville is a great city, but if you are looking for history/architecture, I would say Charleston is what you are looking for.

You will certainly find things in Charleston that are similar to NOLA, but the differences are enough that I think you will be happy with the trip.

From the history aspect, as I said earlier in the post, be sure to go to Fort Sumter, and also check out Fort Moultrie as well. If you are in town over a weekend, go see the Hundley - this is a piece of Civil War history that you can't find anywhere else. If you are into military history, the ships at Patriots Point are a good thing to visit as well - very few places allow you to tour an aircraft carrier.

From the architectural side, be sure to go to Drayton Hall. Built in the 1750s, it is the only plantation house in the Charleston metro area to survive the Civil War. The most "recent" renovations were done in the mid-1800s and there is still no indoor plumbing or electricity. The houses at Boone Hall, Magnolia and Middleton are not original and were all built after the Civil War, but the architecture is still worth looking at. If you are there in the spring, the gardens are beautiful. Magnolia's collection of azaleas and camellias is absolutely amazing.

The houses along the Battery at the tip of the peninsula have amazing architecture as well, and several of them are open for tours.

Being from NOLA, I think you will like low country cuisine. It will be similar, with shrimp and crab, to what you find in Louisiana but different enough to not seem the same.

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Does anyone know if Charleston dresses up nicely for Christmas time?

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Yes, extremely nice. I'm from Charleston and still reside here (moved away several times but the city always draws me back).

To the Auburn poster that mentioned only 1 plantation house in the metro area... that is flat out wrong. I can think of at least 8 within 15 miles of the peninsula. If this is your thing, just reply and I'll list them out.

Check out CofC's campus also. 13th oldest college in the nation and founded in 1770 (obviously prior to the US). And I'd put the city of Charleston as having the hottest per capita girl situation in the US (hell the city has been ranked that twice in the last 5 years).