4 Days/Nights in Charleston

Kiawah Island is worth a visit. Lunch at the Ocean Course Clubhouse is great. Lunch/Dinner or just a drink at the Sanctuary are all good options too.

Toast was good for breakfast
Firefly distillery did a tour tasting that was pretty good. Their sweet tea bourbon is really good

Lewis BBQ is very good. Much better than Rodney Scott. Fun atmosphere as well.

Drayton Hall is the best house to see outside the city. I’d skip the others. The 2 art museums downtown are decent, small and easy to tour. Poogan’s Porch restaurant is good. The Custom House museum and dungeon tour is very good.

Second Halls

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Ft Sumpter tour

Firefly distillery, they have live music from time to time as well.

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-Some of the places for dinner include SNOB, Husk and Tavern & Table. Any reviews on these places?

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SNOB is great, you can do better than Husk and Tavern & Table. Though I do strongly suggest checking out Shem Creek around happy hour or on a Saturday. We love Red's Icehouse (were just there yesterday after the beach ). If you have the time, do the sunset sail with the Palmetto Breeze, which leaves from right there.

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--Lunch includes Fleet Landing. What are some other good lunch spots?

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Bodega is good, Heavy's if you like smash burgers, Magnolia's and 167 Raw for a more expensive lunch. Some of the bars have pretty good food as well, Dispensary, Prohibition, and Blind Tiger (definitely want to be in the beer garden) to name a few.

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--We plan to do the Charleston City Market, Waterfront Park, King Street, Rainbow Row.

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Keep going past Rainbow Row and walk The Battery and check out White Point Garden. Views and homes are awesome, though it's a bit blocked at White Point Garden because they're redoing the battery wall at the southern tip of the peninsula.

Lots more to do in the area outside of downtown though.

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Any ideas or places your really enjoyed are greatly appreciated.

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The plantations are pretty cool and very pretty, but can be a bit of a drive. Given where you're staying, if you have enough time, I'd recommend the Morris Island Lighthouse tour with Charleston Outdoor Adventures LINK. You can bring your own beer, and once you reach the island they give you about an hour to drink, explore, swim, walk around and collect shells, chat up the people who have beached their boats and are partying.

I'd also recommend doing a carriage tour your first day to get the lay of the land and history of the area which will make the rest of your trip more interesting. We like Old South.

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For Breweries..I'd suggest Revelry #1.

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We love their upstairs deck bar. Cool views of the bridge and walkable to a bunch of places (Home Team, Lewis BBQ, Red Palm, etc).

Other breweries worth a visit:
- Edmund's Oast..best beers and a great vibe in the courtyard area by Rancho Lewis; the Edmund's Oast restaurant has a nice outdoor area and the best tap list in town
- Palmetto, which is a a little closer to downtown
- Holy City, large and a really pretty area, just a bit further out

The Revelry outdoor tap room on Folly is a great spot as well for a beer after the beach (get Chico Feo's for lunch!)

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Also, if you like podcasts, check out the Charleston Time Machine. It is done by an archivist at the SC Historical Society. There are hundreds of episodes but I would suggest the ones on the Battery (episodes 37 & 38), hurricane impacts (3 & 4), and the city in the Revolution (61 - 64 among others).

Episodes are typically 30 minutes or less.

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Thanks for the heads up on this. One of the things I love most about Charleston is the history of this area. I'll be going way down this rabbit hole.

I'm going to seek out some of the civil war episodes after getting through the first ones you noted.

I enjoyed the carriage ride tour of the historic area...

For breakfast, try the Palmetto Cafe inside The Charleston Place.

We walked to the Custom House to the Battery and through all the streets in the south of Broad, every day...rented bikes one day too. Loved seeing all the homes in that area.

Got massages in the Charleston Place spa one morning, which was nice.

We also did drinks/appetizers atop the Vendue Hotel...

Have fun...

I just went during Mardi Gras for the first time with my wife. We stayed at the Andrew Pickney Inn, which was in a great location. It was walkable to most things that we did.

First day we grabbed lunch at Ruru's Tacos and Tequila then walked around doing all the sight seeing (City Market, Waterfront/Pineapple Fountain, Battery Row, King St and Broad Street)

Second day we grabbed a late brunch at Miller's All Day, hit some bars (Griffin, Vendue Rooftop, Market Pavilion Rooftop bar) and ate at Hank's Seafood for dinner.

Third day we went to Mt. Pleasant/Shem Creek and then Ubered over to Sullivan's Island and ate at Poe's Tavern. Later that night we ate at Hall's Chophouse.

The final day we ate lunch at Blind Tiger Pub before we left.