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| Last 3 months | 35 | 32 | 44 | 12 | 77% | 3.7 | ||
| Last 6 months | 50 | 52 | 68 | 16 | 80% | 3.8 | ||
| Last 12 months | 135 | 121 | 179 | 58 | 77% | 3.7 | ||
| All | 276 | 281 | 381 | 100 | 79% | 3.8 |
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(Each activity's ratings from the last 12 months)
(Each activity's ratings from the last 12 months)
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% Positive | Average Rating |
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| The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park | 115 | 76% | 3.6 |
| The Pirates of Charleston Walking History Tour | 6 | 100% | 4.3 |
| The Story of Charleston Walking History Tour | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
| The Ghosts of Charleston II - Specters | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
| The Ghosts of Charleston 2 - Specters | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
| Paranormalist Jim Callahan at Buxton's Theatre | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
| Marcus Dagan at Buxton's East Bay Theatre | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
| Ghost Stories at Buxton's East Bay Theatre | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
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Could be better The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Fri, Apr 27, 07 7:30 PM | JaimeP | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Couple on a Date | |
| It was a fun trip, but instead of saying all of this happened "in there", it would be nice if we could actually go into those places. Otherwise, it was a good experience. | ||||||
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A Nice Walk...through parking lots. The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Fri, Apr 27, 07 7:30 PM | flograce | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| This ghost tour was touted on the flyer as being the best in Charleston. Instead, it was a long, boring walk full of twice-told tales. The tour guide was a very nice guy but soft-spoken and tentative. We learned we were barred from residential areas and therefore paused in a lot of parking lots to hear the story of something that happened blocks from us. The tour guide provided no added value to the telling of a ghost story, seemed to tell it word for word from the book, and used vocabulary that the average tourist probably failed to grasp. I would have preferred a little more entertaining, a little less scholarly. We didn't hear, as promised on the website -- which I later accessed -- what has since happened to the handlers of the film purported to have captured a ghost in a graveyard. That would have provided added value. Everyone in my family was disappointed. And unless it was in fine print, the flyer didn't mention AAA, AARP, etc., discounts as I later saw advertised on the website. Thank goodness the weather was accommodating. | ||||||
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Lacking The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Thu, Apr 26, 07 9:30 PM | annelouise28 | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Couple on a Date | |
| The tour was shorter than 80 minutes and when asked about the white ghost picture in front of a grave that is on your brouchure, the guide said that is not this tour. I have taken your tour before and it told the story of the ghost on the cover before. | ||||||
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Just okay The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Thu, Apr 26, 07 5:00 PM | PaulaMartine | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| I guess I was expecting something more exciting. | ||||||
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informative but not delivered well The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Tue, Apr 24, 07 9:30 PM | RachelMedina | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| Hi - The guy who gave the tour is a young guy and was talking and walking way too fast for some of the older ladies in the group who had also enjoyed some after dinner drinks apparently. He didn't really have a great storytelling talent...spoke with the rapidity and patter of a used car salesman actually. There's an art to building suspense and tension with tempo and dramatic pause in the kind of tales he was telling. He needs to listen to really good storytellers and hear more than just the story. Had a feeling he was rushing through it to be done with it. He was a nice enough guy and the information itself was interesting. | ||||||
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fun stories The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Mon, Apr 23, 07 7:30 PM | thesheehans | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| learned a lot of obscure facts on Charleston. Whole family enjoyed, kids were 13,11. | ||||||
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I was disappointed. The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Sat, Apr 21, 07 9:30 PM | Elledon | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| I had heard good things about the ghost tours given in Charleston from other friends and family members-they all recomended we give it a try. Our tour guide took us on a fairly fast pace for some distance before he stopped and gave a few facts about the spot we stopped. He was a nice young man, but not much of a guide. In total, we did much more walking and very little ghost talking. We stopped maybe 5 times for a very few minutes each time. The guide did not even take us back to the fountain where we had started the tour. (Remember, we are not Charleston natives and are not familiar with the city in the dark!) This is what I had expected: A slower walk with interesting ghost or strange history tidbits. I expected to be taken at least in sight of where the tour originally started. I know these are just for entertainment, but I feel ours was not entertaining enough and would not recomend it or go on another. | ||||||
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History of the tour was top draw The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Sat, Apr 21, 07 9:30 PM | sduffee | Female | 20-29 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Couple on a Date | |
| The tour provided a great lesson in history about Charleston with some spooky elements. I expected some tour guide trying the scare us to death, but instead was pleasantly surprised. I felt like we got some "inside information" on some of the histoery that only a local would know about. | ||||||
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Stay Away from this Tour The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Tue, Apr 17, 07 7:30 PM | helenbbbbb | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| Since I have been on Ghost Tours before, I was quite excited to give this one a try. Our family of five adults were in a small group with three other tourists. (all elderly women). Our tour guide met us at the appropiate time. I will highlight the issues with the tour: 1. He spoke too low 2. He was NOT a storyteller and made the stories so boring, two people in our group wanted to leave. 3. His mannerisms were staged, yet not theatrical, so it came off as silly. 4. He literally stopped in mid-sentence to stare at a girl as she walked by, and then after several uncomfortable seconds looked back at us and said, "Well..." 5. We stood in several parking lots for our "stories" 6. One parking lot was grimy and rather scary and not in the ghostly sense. 7. We did a lot of walking and some of the elderly people were quite tired. If we were going to stand in parking lots, why didn'e he just allow us to sit at the waterfront. 8. We really never got the feel of Charleston or it's ghosts. He'd stand at a corner and say well way over there somewhere there was this ghost, etc. 9. Basically it was amaturist, and dull. 10. It was a complete waste of our money and time. | ||||||
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interesting aneccdotes The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Mon, Apr 16, 07 7:30 PM | gjeanwatson | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| We enjoyed the ghost stories on the tour, and our guide seemed to be having fun too. The kids in our party, ages 4, 5 & 8, would probably have preferred a shorter ghost walk, but they remembered some of the stories days later and shared them with other people who weren't on the tour with us. | ||||||
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Great!! The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Sun, Apr 15, 07 9:30 PM | stevo1 | Male | 20-29 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Couple on a Date | |
| Great job incorporating Charlestons history into the ghost storys. Great tour guide. | ||||||
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Our tour guide was really entertaining! The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Fri, Apr 13, 07 9:30 PM | lkmaddox | Female | 30-39 | Local | Couple on a Date | |
| Our tour guide was really entertaining and knowledgeable. My husband and I really enjoyed the tour! The most amusing part was the first ghost he talked about was one at our inn - The Battery Carriage Inn!! I would recomend this tour. We had a small group and asked lots of questions to which our tour guide was more than happy to answer. | ||||||
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Teenagers enjoyed/adults so-so The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Wed, Apr 11, 07 7:30 PM | gpatetta | Female | 40-49 | Local | Family With Children | |
| We were a group of seven. Four adults, two teenagers and one pre-teen. The kids really enjoyed our guide. He was a college student and I guess that was why. The adults were disappointed with the presentation itself. When we first started our tour at South End Brewery, I found the guide went on and on. Monotone. Got lost in his own thoughts. By the end of the tour he seemed to got better, but still had the moments of losing his train of thought. I expected a bit more "drama" for a ghost tour and our one teenager in the group (who read your book) said there were other stories much better than the ones our tour guide told us. | ||||||
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Fun and informative The Story of Charleston Walking History Tour |
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| Wed, Apr 11, 07 10:00 AM | workfun | Unspecified | Unspecified | Domestic Tourist(s) | Other | |
| Our tour guide, Danny McGee, was great! He was friendly, very knowledgeable, and had a wonderful sense of humor. I recommend him highly -- I'm glad he was our guide. | ||||||
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Quick and short The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park |
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| Mon, Apr 9, 07 9:30 PM | susanmcd | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| We arrived a little early at our designated spot. There were no signs or guides around and it was very dark so we were not really sure we were in the right place. Our guide did show up on time, but he was smoking a cigar and continued to do so for the next 20 minutes! There were only 6 people on the tour so it was a nice size group. The problem was that the guide (Brandon) who told us he owned his own tour company and was just helping this one out tonight as a favor, seemed to be in a big hurry. He walked and talked extremely fast. There were about 4 or 5 good stories. He seemed to know his stuff and could have probably given a very good tour except for the fact he seemed to be in a hurry. Our tour that was supposed to last 80 minutes only lasted 60, so we were very disappointed in that. When the tour was over we were about 6 blocks from our car and where we started so he gave us quick directions back and then disappeared. Overall it had the potential to be very good, but it was a let down. I would only recommend this tour to a friend after I had warned them first. | ||||||
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