Tour Charleston, LLC

Having lived in Charleston for several decades and knowing quite a bit about local history I’m always apprehensive when going on any tour in the area. There’s nothing worse than being on a tour where the guide is giving false information and embellishing stories for entertainment purposes! My wife and I wanted to take a tour before moving out of state and I heard good things about Tour Charleston, LLC so we decided to go with their Ghosts of Charleston Tour.
When we arrived for the tour a good size group had gathered. We didn’t have to wait long before our guide showed up to get the tour started. As we walked the streets of Charleston our guide told spooky tales with great enthusiasm and even tied in some not-​so-​spooky local history about the places we passed along the way, which was appreciated. The guide was very personable, engaged everyone in conversation between stops and was able to answer questions from the group about the area.
In all, I was quite happy with our choice of Tour Charleston, LLC for our last outing before our move. I highly recommend the Ghosts of Charleston tour and can’t wait to take their other offered tours when we come back to visit!

It was a great tour! The tour guide is great. Knows so much about Charleston and its history. It was an enjoyable time. 90 min is perfect. I would take this tour again. I plan to bring visitors to hear the tour when we are back in town. What more can I say!

My boyfriend and I just returned from a wonderful trip to Charleston. We booked this company for a ghost tour and had a great time. Our guide, Anna, had just passed her tour guide test and was very eager to show us a good time. She had a lot of interesting stories to tell on the walk and was very enthusiastic. Just as the 80 minutes was up, someone on the tour asked about another ghost story that Anna hadn’t covered. Anna extended the tour another 20 minutes so we could pass by that spot and she could talk about that specific story. So nice of her! But make sure you arrive early; we came from dinner and arrived exactly at 9:30 but we received a call from the company at 9:25 asking where we were! It’s nice to know that they make sure all registered members are there!

I’m going to preface this review by stating that I’ve taken ghost tours in multiple cities, both domestically and abroad. That being said, «The Ghosts of Charleston» tour that I recently took through Tour Charleston was solid in content, but the delivery was horrifying for all the wrong reasons.
I initially learned about this ghost tour via a simple Google search and purchased tickets through the company’s online vendor. I was subsequently sent a confirmation e-​mail, which included instructions pertaining to the tour meeting time and location. The tickets I purchased were for the Saturday evening tour (9:30 PM), which cost $ 18.00 each.
We arrived at the specified meeting location fifteen minutes prior to the scheduled start time and managed to identify the tour guide, who the instructions said would be wearing a black shirt. In hindsight, it probably would have been easier to find the gentleman if he were holding some type of sign or lantern of some sort. Nonetheless, we were able to connect with him and he verified our names on his Smartphone. Unfortunately, everything seemed to go downhill from this point. A ghost tour being operated by a competing company happened to be making a stop near the location where we were meeting. After two members of our tour inadvertently joined that tour instead, our guide became visibly agitated and proceeded to verbally confront the other guide in front of the 25 attendees of his tour. Our tour guide then returned and proceeded to engage in a 2 minute diatribe stating that the company was violating the city’s regulation limiting tour groups to 20 individuals; he also denounced the competing tours as «bootleg» on multiple occasions throughout our tour. This may very well have been the case, but the situation could have been resolved in a more professional manner.
After a few additional minutes, all 10 members of our group had arrived and the tour commenced. Although our guide was clearly quite intelligent and knowledgeable about the subject, his presentational style was overly eccentric and incredibly difficult to follow. He spoke very fast, rapidly changed topics, and used vocabulary and terminology that most of the general population would not be familiar with. In fact, I have a PhD and even I had problems following him at times. Approximately 40 minutes into the 80 minute tour, four individuals from the ten member group declared that they couldn’t tolerate the guide anymore and decided to leave. Unfortunately for the them, things actually started to improve shortly thereafter. Tour Charleston is the only company with rights to take its tour participants into the Unitarian Church graveyard after hours, which proved to be quite an eerie experience.
At exactly the 80 minute mark, the tour guide bid us adieu at a different location from where we had started. Overall, I enjoyed the tour, but it certainly would have been more memorable (for the rights reasons) had it been led by an alternative guide.