| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Very Good
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| Thu, Sep 3 9:00 PM |
lizard3169 |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Our tour guide was very good. He (Glenn?) was very informative and patient with my 9 year old daughter, who asks alot of questions. I would recommend this tour to anyone visiting Charleston. |
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Lacking for price
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| Sat, Aug 29 7:00 PM |
christy83181 |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| First let me say our guide Susan was wonderful. However for the price we paid I expected a lot more than walking around the outside of the jail and then going in 2 rooms and a hallway. I was very disappointed. When we walked outside and she said ok I am going to let you go now a few people (myself included) said that's it? I would not go back and for the qualilty of what was classified on the website as possibly the scariest place you will ever go, I give it 2 thumbs down. |
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Great history & Fun Ghost Tales
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| Thu, Aug 20 7:00 PM |
RoseHaskett |
Male |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Individual |
| I went by myself while my wife did the Ghost & Dungeon Tour. (She was too scared of the Jail even when we saw it in the daytime). The Jail itself is beautiful in a foreboding and architectural way. The tour itself was very informative and a little spooky. No theatrics or spooky effects but our tour guide, AJ (?), did a great job. I applaud Charleston for keeping such a building alive the last 200 years. Would definitely recommend the tour. |
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Fun, interesting, and not TOO scary
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| Wed, Aug 19 9:00 PM |
Aulica |
Female |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| This was a great historical tour. I was a bit apprehensive about attending, cause ghost stories really creep me out, but my husband and I had a great time. It was just the right amound of history and haunting! |
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Good Tour.
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| Sat, Aug 15 9:00 PM |
galvindl |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| This was the best part of our visit to Charleston. We (my husband and teenage boys) enjoyed the tour and learned a lot about life in the early jails. |
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American College of the Building Arts.
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| Sat, Aug 15 8:00 PM |
SNShearer |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| I went into this tour expecting to see a lot more of the jail, but in reality you only see 3 different rooms. What they don't tell you is that the jail is now actually the "American College of the Building Arts" (google it). It is actually a functioning college and many of the rooms in the jail are now workshops and classrooms. In addition to being a functional college, they are working on preserving and stabilizing the building itself. As a result, you don't get to see much of the building and it is definitely a construction zone inside, but it is still pretty spooky. Our tour guide was a dramatic woman with blue / black hair, I'm thinking her name was Rebel. She did a great job of incorporating the actual history of the building into her tour and stories, and she actually cited research that had been done to debunk old myths and gave the new accurate versions. Overall it was a fun tour, not scary, but interesting for history buffs and ghost story seekers. As a side note, we did take a few pictures that had orbs in them. They are probably just dust, but I'm still anxious to have them developed to know for sure. |
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Most Memorable
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| Sat, Aug 15 7:00 PM |
Mbuckland |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| We have participated in many ghost tours throughout the country, and this ranks as one of the best ones we've done. The jail was impressive in itself, and our guide was wondeful! We learned a lot about the history of the area and the jail, and actually had a personal experience in one of the cel rooms. This was truly an unforgetable experience. |
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Good activity for teenage children
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| Thu, Aug 13 8:00 PM |
jaber9074 |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Teenagers really enjoyed this activity. Tour guide was very informative. |
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Fun with a large group
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| Thu, Aug 13 8:00 PM |
amcconvi |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| This tour was fun to do with our family and friends of about 15 people. The anticipation of the tour the whole week was just as fun as the tour itself. It was raining on the day of the tour, but it turned out to be ok. I thought we would see a lot more of the jail...they only showed us 3 rooms. And when it ended it was very anti-climatic. We had fun scaring each other within the group. I wouldn't do this with just your spouse or girlfriend or boyfriend...waste of time. Having a large group def. helped. Being in the jail is interesting and learning the history was cool, but it really wasn't very scary. Our tour guide was good...very dramatic and knowledgable. I would recommend to do one time, but if your looking for something very scary and haunted....this tour is probably not what you are looking for. I did have some weird "orbs" on pictures I took outside the jail in the dark. |
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Not spooky
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| Wed, Aug 12 8:00 PM |
mfkos1 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| This was definintely not spooky. The jail isn't abandoned. It's been turned into a college campus. There are classrooms in most of the rooms and lots of debris from building projects. It would have been much more believable in an empty (abandoned) building. The surrounding neighborhood isn't safe or somewhere I would normally venture. Drive your car to the jail - don't walk! |
