The Darkside of Charleston Tour (Rated R)

WE HAD A GREAT TIME AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN ON ANOTHER TOUR!

Our guide, Lane, was extremely knowledgable about the historic and current City of Charleston. The tour balanced elements of historic past and local legend into a great story-telling adventure. The Darkside of Charleston provides a detail-rich, hands-on account of events that you cannot find in books; that is what makes it so intriguing. I would highly recommend this to any history enthusiast.

Our guide gave us so much detailed information, including names and dates of the events. A week later and I'm still telling my friends and family members stories. We'll be sure to book another tour on our next visit to Charleston.

Found the tour more realistic than many of the "ghost tours".

The tour itself and the tour guide were fine. It was just that our expectations were different. We got interesting stories and a history lesson on Charleston. But we were expecting access to places the general public does not have, along with "Ghost" stories on the "Darker side of Charleston". Ironically, there was not one mention of a Ghost ...

Found it very interesting to learn these bits of info that are not normally shared.

I have lived in mount pleasant for 11 years and this was my first tour. Our tour guide was very informative, he knew his history. He put out there he was open to any comments or suggestions. You could tell he really enjoyed what he was doing so overall he was a good tour guide to have. We learned alot of neat information. It was a different take on charleston. My only complaint It was very difficult to hear him. It was not that he talked softly, just the manner in which he spoke. He knew so much information that it was hard to follow and I really had to listen to him. He knew his history and that was good.

The Dark Side of Charleston Tour was absolutely awesome!!!! Our tour guide was so fun and she was very knowledgeable reguarding the history and facts pertaining to the tour! We also took two other tours which were great too, but this tour was defenitely my favorite! I would very highly recommend this tour if you are ever in the Charleston area....it was worth every penny!

However, was disappointed in the fact that the tour was limited due to city ordanence/restriction. Thought that the advertisement should of stated something about the fact that tours where not allowed into residental areas after dark. Spent a lot of time on street corners in the dark with the tour guide pointing down one street or another without really getting near what was being discussed. Tour guide very gungho on the topic - also bonus since he was a local.

The stories on this tour are somewhat interesting, but what was disappointing is that there weren't really "sites" to go along with the stories. We stood in a parking lot for one, on the street for another, in front of Sax 5th Avenue, etc...The most interesting site was at the tour's close--an old brothel. I think we would have enjoyed this tour much more with a different guide. Our guide--Rebel Sinclair--was very over-the-top. We are not prudes by any means. We don't care about cursing, about crudeness, and are not offended by anything. And we weren't offended by her at all. It was just that much of her cursing and crude talk was done to simply try to shock us, I guess--it was simply done for the sake of being crude. She even began to tell men on the tour how to "please" women sexually, which was just odd. She was just too cheesy for us. I think if we had it to do over again, we would have done a ghost tour b/c at least there are sites involved in that. She was a very enthusiastic guide and perfectly nice--just not very enjoyable. I would not suggest doing this tour in the August. It was miserably hot even at 10pm.