| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Local embarrassed by quality of tour
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| Fri, Jul 10, 09 9:30 PM |
elaine5242 |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| My extended family from Texas recently came to visit Charleston for the first time. I was excited to show them around the town that I love and now live in. My husband and I had taken a different ghost tour a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. My family expressed an interest in taking a ghost tour so we decided on this one because it was a different route from our previous tour.
From start-to-finish I was disappointed in this tour. The guide tried unsuccessfully to make ghost-related jokes and was really just pathetic. Some of the stops he made were totally unrelated to the ghost story he was telling and the tour was uninteresting and relatively boring. Nearly every person in our group was wishing they were somewhere else and looking at their watches to see how much longer we had until the end.
I would not recommend this tour and anyone reading this review should find another tour. I wish I had listened to the negative reviews before booking our tour. I will go elsewhere the next time. |
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Fantastic Tour Guide
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| Mon, Jul 6, 09 9:30 PM |
Plaidmad32 |
Female |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| Ian was the best tour guide. We truly had an enjoyable time. He was extremely knowledgeable. The pace was great. Ian handled obnoxious tour members tactfully. Ian was very enthusiatic and made us want to know more about Charleston history. We would highly recommend this tour. We are very happy that we took this tour instead of all the tours everybody told us we should have signed up for. |
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Overall worth the money
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| Sun, Jul 5, 09 9:30 PM |
tiffanyjoy |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| I do think they took us to businesses to try and drum up more business for the places, but our tour guide was very entertaining. Older gentleman with glasses...I can't remember his name. I think if we didn't have him as a guide it would have sucked. I say it was worth the money because going into the graveyard at night was awesome. We had happened across the Unitarian Graveyard earlier in the day, so thats the whole reason we took the tour to be able to see it at night. My other recommendation is to go into the graveyard during the day. It was beautiful and interesting in that they leave it all overgrown and "natural" looking. |
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Excellent Tour and Guide
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| Sat, Jul 4, 09 7:30 PM |
aesposito |
Male |
50-59 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| Our tour guide, Ian, was fantastic. He was personable, energetic and very knowledgeable. The tour was both entertaining and informative. I grew up in Charleston and didn't know half of what he presented to us. He has the ability to take places that I just took for granted and present them in a new and interesting light. If you take this tour I hope you get this guide. Definitely worth the price. |
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So So
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| Thu, Jul 2, 09 9:30 PM |
elitz00 |
Male |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| It was interesting, but the guide was cheesy. We mostly stood in parking lots and talked about different stuff. When first meeting up with the group not really sure what was going on, seemed a bit shady. Didn't have to confirm anything with the guide, only the name. Even though they were sold out a few people hoped on at the last minute, which I think is why our guide was cheesy...for all I know the guide pocketed the new peoples cash and his buddy took over for the other half of the people that got bumped due to the new people coming on. I won't do another one of these tours again with this company, it was way too expensive for what I experienced. Having talked with other people that have done other tours, we drew the short end of the stick. The stories others told were far more entertaining than the ones we heard. In all honesty, if I was 9 it would have been great, but I'm not 9 and it wasn't all that good. |
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Fun even for the cynical
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| Wed, Jul 1, 09 9:30 PM |
kcwhbjr |
Male |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| I am not one who believes in ghost. I took this tour in hopes of a little fun and to learn more about Charleston's past. Both happened. The tour guide conducted the tour in a way that was fun, informative and respectful of those who believe and those who don't. |
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Not worth the money
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| Wed, Jul 1, 09 9:30 PM |
Ceharris55 |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| The tour was more walking than any stories. The 2 ghosts stories were given with too much acting like they should be spooky (the woo-woo's) but not any good meat to the stories. The tour was over booked and we had what was apparently a substitute guide. I have been on ghost tours before and found them interesting and have recommended taking the tours to my friends and family. This is not one that I or my sisters would advise. It left me dissappointed and not even interested in following up on anything (there wasn't any stories to follow up on). The last and worst part of the evening was that at 11pm we were left in an area of town that was not where we started the tour. The guide did give directions back to the original meeting place, but it was dark, not many people around and we weren't familiar with the city. Getting back to the car was much creepier than the tour. |
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A Ghostly Girls Night Out
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| Tue, Jun 30, 09 9:30 PM |
esnoopy |
Female |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| My friend and I decided to do the ghost walk to end our day spent in Charleston. Our guide was friendly and informative. At each sight that he took us to, he gave a brief and to the point history lesson. Then spoke of the tragic event that had happened and then gave a few examples of peoples ghostly experiences. The graveyard is dark, over grown, looks ominous, and holds a sad story...
Our guide kept my attention the whole time because he was not "long winded" and told 3 "to the point" stories (historic, tragic, haunting).
It was a nice ending to our day and I would recommend this tour to anyone looking to have a fun time and even learn a little history! |
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Everyone in our group enjoyed.
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| Mon, Jun 29, 09 9:30 PM |
kprinske |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| I believe the tour was mostly historical. Not as scary as I thought it would be. Our family of five, three boys ages 15, 11, and 9 were a little apprehensive at first, but everyone agreed that it was worth the time. The guide was extremely knowledgable about the history and places of Charleston. The swealtering heat of 90 at 9:30, made it a little hard to concentrate to every word he said. Over all, we agreed we were glad we went, the kids did not get scared out of their minds. It's mostly ghost stories told in alleys and a graveyard with a lot of history thrown in. This was our first ghost tour ever and were glad we did it in Charleston. |
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very accurate, more history than ghost
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| Mon, Jun 29, 09 9:30 PM |
stephpenn |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| I took this tour two years ago with a different guide and also read the book that the tour is based upon. History is one of my favorite subjects and our guide was definitley very knowledgeable on the subject. I would have appreciated more time spent on the ghost stories from the book and less time on local history, as important and informative as it is. The tour was supposed to last 80 minutes but it ended up being 2 hours. While I enjoyed hearing about our guides personal background, I think that if he had pared this down a bit, as well as some of the historical information, we would have had more time for addtional ghost stories and the tour would not have run overtime. Our tour guide was obviously well educated and interesting and would have been someone you would love to have a few hours with to learn all about Charleston, or history in general. I did enjoy going into the Unitarian Church graveyard, spiderwebs and all. I missed going to the Brewery and Poogan's Porch. I have taken another ghost tour and it did not compare to this one. I would say this is the best ghost tour in Charleston. |
