Charleston Travel Guide
/We just got back from our babymoon in Charleston and absolutely loved it! I had a ton of you guys ask for our recommendations so I wanted to do a blog post and share everything we loved about the city!
First of all Charleston is the perfect place for a babymoon! Everything is very walkable, there are delicious mocktails on every menu (which is hard to find in Austin for some reason) and they had the cutest baby boutiques on King Street! Babymoon or not… I would for sure recommend checking out Charleston!
We got in Thursday and left Monday afternoon and we felt like this was the perfect amount of time for this city. We had 3 full days there and felt like any more time would have been too much unless we planned to do a beach trip with this visit.
The time of year wasn’t the best time to go in my opinion, it was pretty cold and windy pretty much everyday. The day we left it got up to 70 (of course) and was super nice out. Most days it was in the 50’s and to me that was a little too cold! I would say going later in March or the summer would be ideal!
We walked pretty much everywhere we wanted to go and only had to take an uber a couple of times. Everything was super easy to get to and very easy to explore the whole city by foot! I LOVED the location of our hotel. It was right next to 3 really popular restaurants (we tried them all) and a very easy walk to king street, and literally anywhere else in the city!
Hotels:
We stayed at the Mills House Wyndham and we loved it! It was reasonably priced and the location was AMAZING. We were right in the middle of everything and able to walk everywhere we wanted to go! The bed wasn’t super comfortable but I’m also pregnant so nothing is comfortable to me right now haha. That was really my only complaint. Overall I would definitely recommend staying here and would again, because you can’t beat this location in Charleston.
The Restoration Hotel, Hotel Bennet, and The Belmond Hotel also looked really cute, but our location seemed more ideal and the price was better at ours too!. We also looked at King Charles Inn before we went with the Wyndham.
Itinerary
Heres a little look at our itinerary and what we did while we were in Charleston! I will recap the must do’s and restaurants below as well!
Thursday
167 Raw for early appetizers (there is always a wait here so we went at like 2pm)
4pm Camellias for afternoon tea
Walk along King Street for some shopping
7:45pm Hank’s Seafood
FridayPrenatal Massage at The Spa at Belmond Charleston Place
1:30pm Husk for Lunch (make dinner reservations well in advance — we liked lunch better)
Ride bikes around Rainbow Row and look at the houses near the water
Go to the rooftop at the Citrus Club for a Mocktail with a view
Saturday
11am Poogans Porch for Brunch
1-4pm Uber to Boone Plantation (plan to spend a couple hours here because there a tours at certain times)
6:45pm 82 Queen for dinner
Carmella’s for Dessert
Sunday
Magnolias for lunch 1pm
Carriage ride around the city (could do this the first day instead to get to know the area)
We went back to Husk for dinner and put our name on the list at 5:15- They called us by 8 with an opening…overall we felt this restaurant was a little overrated but still good.
Monday
Biscuits at Callies Hot Little Biscuit for breakfast- You can download an app and order online if theres a wait!
167 raw for lunch again (it was so good! & no wait mid day on a monday)
We walked all up King Street before our flight this day!
Favorite things we did in Charleston!
Take a Carriage Ride (all the companies looked about the same, private ones were expensive)
Ride Bikes around the city
King Street for shopping
Market Street
Boone Plantation (such a great tour! Forrest Gump and The Notebook were both filmed here!)
Rainbow Row (worth a look but nothing really too exciting, just colorful houses)
Restaurants:
167 Raw books up super fast and doesn’t take reservations- we went for lunch twice and had no wait on Monday afternoon. You can put you name on a list and just walk around king street. Favorite Restaurant we went to!
Camellias champagne bar. This is the cutest place ever! Its beautiful and all pink inside.
Hanks Seafood for dinner was great!
We enjoyed Husk for lunch over dinner! Book in advance either way
The Citrus Club for Drinks and a View
Poogans Porch for Brunch
82 queen for dinner was great! They have the best She Crab Soup in the city!
Carmellas for dessert! They have a TON of desserts and dessert drinks too!
Magnolias for dinner or lunch
Callies Hot little Biscut
Other Places we didn’t get to try but had on our list:
The Darling Oyster Bar
The Ordinary
