| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Good comments
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| Fri, Jun 13, 08 7:00 PM |
mmtd4ever |
Female |
Under 20 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| This tour was a good tour and the group had a very good tour guide who told us stories with enthusiasm and made the tour mysterious. It seemed as if the tour wasn't based around all that many ghostly experiences but on urban legends and the histories behind one time occurances. All that is interesting and all but the tour could benefit from more mysterious ghostly happenings like people getting scratched or things flying across the room. Obviously you can't make those things occur on demand but even just telling the groups about them having happened in the past adds a bit of apprehension to the tour.
Overall my group had a wonderful time and we really enjoyed the rich history and architechure of the city. You've really got a good tour business. |
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Informative tour guide - dungeon was disappointing
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| Thu, Jun 12, 08 9:00 PM |
tnbjf8436 |
Male |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Tour guide (Janice) was very knowledgeable about Charleston history and ghost lore. Overall tour was good but the dungeon was less than expected. |
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Enjoyed Dungeon Tour
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| Thu, Jun 12, 08 7:00 PM |
WendyRAllen |
Female |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
| We enjoyed the walking 'ghost' tour and dungeon tour. We would recommend it to others. |
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Enjoyable, Entertaining, & Educational
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| Tue, Jun 10, 08 7:00 PM |
DeeDee11 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
Combination |
Family With Children |
| I am from Charleston and had good friends with their children visiting from Kansas City, Missouri. We all found our tour guide to be entertaining, pleasant, and informative. It was a great walk through some areas I had not been through myself.
The children in particular enjoyed the dungeon part of the tour.
I would use this tour group again to entertain out of town guests. |
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Interesting history and stories; good dungeon tour
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| Tue, Jun 10, 08 7:00 PM |
jgd1961 |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| We really enjoyed Barbara's stories and the history of Charleston was very good and entertaining. We enjoyed seeing the Provost's Dungeon.
(We would have liked to have seen more sites and buildings on the tour.)
Considering the focus of the tour, overall I'd rate it as very good! |
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Great Tour
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| Wed, Jun 4, 08 7:00 PM |
gsmckee |
Male |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Individual |
| Several years ago I visited Charleston for the first time. One of the main things that I like to do in every city that I visit is to take walking tours. I love history and ghost tours. I've taken them all over the world and can say that the tours offered by Bulldog Tours are among the best I've been on. The last time I was in Charleston I took the Ghosts and Gravestones tour and absolutely loved it. I was fortunate enough to have Tad Legare as my guide on that tour. I was pleasently surprised that when I returned to Charleston this time and had Tad as my guide for the Ghost and Dungeon tour. He is great. He is an interesting speaker and doesn't sensationalize the stories too much.
This tour covers a few sites along the Cooper River waterfront before actually getting to the Dungeon. These sites were interesting but of course the focus of the tour is the Dungeon. That was very interesting. I don't want to give it away but the dungeon is reported to have some ghost activity actually happen during the tours. I was on an early tour so I wasn't really expecting anything to happen while we were down there. I was surprised when things did happen. One of the things that happend is that objects began to move. We spent some time actually talking about logical explinations for what was happening. I walked up and was standing next to a chain that was intended to keep people from heading into an area. I was the only one standing by the chain and it was about 3 feet away. I was looking into the corner and when I looked back the chain was moving.
This chain is secured to the wall and I felt the wall to see if there were any vibrations - possibly from a vehicle or something on the street next to the dungeon. I felt no vibrations. As I was looking at the chain I noticed that it's movement was not a simple back and forth but it appeared to move as if someone was picking up a link about a third of the way along then letting go of it again. I actually reached out and felt around the chain. Perhaps it was rigged in some way with a fishing line but I couldn't find anything except a cold spot directly above the point where the chain was being lifted up. I stopped the chain's movement and then watched as it began again a minute later - this time a bit more forcefully.
I don't know what it was. Was it a ghost - perhaps. I couldn't find a rational explination for it myself but it was facinating.
I'll take more tours with Bulldog the next time I'm in town. Luckily I have a relative that just moved there so I'll be back much more often now. |
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Interesting but not really scary
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| Tue, Jun 3, 08 9:00 PM |
Bibs0605 |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| The stories were good but I expected a ghost tour to be scarier. |
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Very Informative and fun!
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| Tue, Jun 3, 08 7:00 PM |
dml013 |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Loved the stories about the history and tragic deaths. Brooke our guide was very informative and knew her history. The length of the walk was just right. I personally have leg problems- I didn't have any problems. A wheel chair won't work though. Too many cobble stones. We ate at a near by restaurant around 5:00 and the tour was at 7:00. The timing was just right for a relaxing evening! |
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Stories
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| Fri, May 30, 08 9:00 PM |
shanrain |
Female |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Other |
| This tour was ok. we took the ghost and graveyard tour last year and the stories were the same. |
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Very interesting tour
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| Thu, May 29, 08 7:00 PM |
JIMWEAVER |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
| My boyfriend has been there many times, but this was my first trip to Charleston, and this tour provided me with a unique way to see things I otherwise wouldn't have seen. Our guide, Jim T., was very informative, and a great story teller. The dungeon was great if for no other reason than the architecture, but it also had a rather scary and eerie quality to it. It was a good time. |
