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  Tour Charleston, LLC
Ratings Summary:  Rating: 3.76 (119)
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Last 3 months 35 36   42   6 83% 3.7
Last 6 months 62 65   84   19 82% 3.8
Last 12 months 117 119   160   41 80% 3.8
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The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park 113 80% 3.8
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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Rating: 5 tour was the greatest!
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sun, Jul 29, 07   9:30 PM judysas Female 50-59 Domestic Tourist(s) Family With Children
  During our first visit to the area, we decided to take the Ghost tour on a sunday evening. A full moon lit our way through the city and our tour guide , Ben, was superb! We came back to Charleston the next day to visit several of the places on the tour and to enjoy lunch at Magnolia's. We fully intend to visit your city again, largely due to the enjoyable tour we had on a warm Charleston Sunday evening with a talented guide and entertainer!!! Keep up the terrific work!
Rating: 3 Okay
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sun, Jul 29, 07   7:30 PM LISAMJ Female 40-49 Combination Other
  Loved the book. The guide was nice but not a GREAT story teller so that was a little disappointing.
Rating: 4 Mysterious History
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sat, Jul 28, 07   9:30 PM oneforpax Female 30-39 Local Family With Children
  This is an enjoyable tour that allows you to see Charleston in a different light: an evening view with a touch of mystery and romance! Thanks, Julian, for an enchanting evening . . .
Rating: 5 Great Tour!
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sat, Jul 28, 07   9:30 PM blvermillion Female 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Family With Children
  Loved the enthusiasm of our tour guide. The ghost stories & the history are very interesting. We will be coming back to Charleston to take other tours in the future.
Rating: 5 Highly Recommend
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Fri, Jul 27, 07   9:30 PM Sunbird21 Female 50-59 Domestic Tourist(s) Family Without Children
  This was my very first ghost tour, but my daughter has been on quite a few in different places. We both felt that this was a very interesting and exciting ghost walk to go on in Charleston. Our tour guide, Ben, was quite good at story telling and provided lots of details and enthusiasm. He held everyone's attention throughout the entire walk. I would highly recommend this ghost walk to visitors in Charleston...and I would definitely go on another one in the future. The price was very competitive, also.
Rating: 4 Interesting, fun tour
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Fri, Jul 27, 07   5:00 PM cappe1jj Male 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Unspecified
  Guide was friendly and did a good job
Rating: 5 FUN !...FUN !
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Thu, Jul 26, 07   9:30 PM kyleyoung Male 30-39 Local Couple on a Date
  Ben was a great enthusiastic tour guide !
Rating: 2 Over acted
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Thu, Jul 26, 07   9:30 PM markreyland Male 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Family Without Children
  I fully understand that the focus of such a tour is entertainment. However, try as hard as he did...Ben, simply over acted the part. It was really more a gore tour...than a ghost tour. More of the city ghost history and less of the ghoulish stories of fingers falling off would have made it a better experience. I think people wanted to believe they could see a ghost on the walk itself....not just stories of death in over acted detail. The other issue was with the facts, as presented, many of the facts were simply lies. The seats in the theater are not from the early 1800's. These stories were obviously designed to enhance the experience, but in fact they insult the listener by asking him/her to believe something that's obviously not true. Overall I Ben did a really enthusiastic job....and he clearly loves what he does....but his tour should be a bit more about ghost sightings...and a bit less about ghost stories. I can't say I would go again....we've been to many around the country and yours isn't in the top 10, but with Charleston to work with, and some focus, it could be.
Rating: 1 very disappointed, waste of time and money
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sun, Jul 22, 07   9:30 PM cdistefano Female 30-39 Domestic Tourist(s) Group of Friends
  Our "guide" was a terrible story teller and told brief ramblings of his interpretation of the history of Charlotte. Never any mention of ghosts or "spooky stuff" we had hoped to hear. We basically walked around downtown Charlotte, stopping every once in a while on a stoop and listened to his bad stories. I would hardly call it a tour. At one point we found ourselves in a bank parking lot listening to his bad jokes. We were then guided to their "theatre" for what we thought was the big finale but instead we watched him try to light a candle for ten minutes until another group arrived. Then we were just sent on our way. I sort of feel scammed. Huge disappointment.
Rating: 1 BORING!
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sun, Jul 22, 07   9:30 PM shelldog Male 30-39 Local Group of Friends
  Words can not say what a waste of time this was! Please Please Please take my advice and try a different tour! I truely believe in ghost and I had a very hard time believing anything that was told to us. The only interesting story that we heard was about a place we didnt visit! A total waste of time! The guide even yawned while he told the stories! I wish I could get my money back!
Rating: 1 Ghost tour 7/21/07 at 9:30 PM
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sat, Jul 21, 07   9:30 PM Jenifer Female 30-39 Unspecified Unspecified
  Saturday evening I took the Charleston tour with 8 of my family members. Six tickets were purchased under Gerlich and two were purchased under Britting. We were greeted by Robert our tour guide. Our family was very disappointed with the tour. We spent most of our time listening to the ghost stories in several parking lots. We were no where near the homes and graveyards of the stories being told. Needless to say, we were not entertained. We were robbed of the experience we had expected. The tour would have been more effective if we were actually brought near the Inn where the torso ghost has been seen. Brought to the home of where the woman saw the friendly ghost and to the outside of the Circular Congregationalist Church. It was also stressful when we went to Poogans Porch and at least 5 tours were congregated to the same area. It was difficult to hear the story and focus on the tour guide. I recently moved to the Charleston area and in good conscience would not be able to recommend this tour to visitors of the area. I think the firm my have to reassess the flow of the tour. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at any time. Warm Regards, Stacey Felenczak
Rating: 1 2 BLOCKS AWAY TOUR
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sat, Jul 21, 07   9:30 PM NASAMSON Female 40-49 Domestic Tourist(s) Group of Friends
  FRANKLY, MY SISTER AND I WERE DISAPPOINTED BY THE TOUR. SHE HAD BEEN ON ONE IN BOSTON (A GHOST TOUR) AND HAD ENJOYED THAT ONE. BY THE END OF THE TOUR WE WERE CALLING IT THE THE 2 BLOCKS AWAY TOUR BECAUSE EACH TIME WE STOPPED THE GHOST WAS AT SOME POINT 2 BLOCKS AWAY. I THOUGHT THAT HALF THE FUN OF A GHOST TOUR WAS TO MAYBE GET A LITTLE SCARED AND HEAR GHOST STORIES. THE TOUR GUIDE WASN'T THE GREATEST STORY TELLER AND NEEDS TO LEARN TO HOW TO TELL A STORY SLOWLY AND WITHOUT SO MUCH JUMPING AROUND. IT DISTRACTS FROM THE STORY. I ALMOST THOUGHT THAT MAYBE THE TOUR GUIDE WAS USE TO GIVING ANOTHER TYPE OF TOUR AS WE STOPPED AT NON GHOST SITES MORE THAN GHOST SITES. THIS WAS DEFINITELY A THUMBS DOWN TOUR AND GIVES ME ANOTHER REASON TO SAY THAT TOURS ARE NOT WORTH A GRAIN OF SALT. I WILL READ THE BOOK BEFORE I GO NEXT TIME. MY SISTER AND I ACTUALLY RETRACED OUR TOUR AFTER IT WAS OVER TO FIND THE CHURCH WHERE ONE OF THE GHOST WERE TO HAVE BEEN AND THAT WAS THE GHOST ON THE COVER OF THE BOOK. DON'T RECOMMEND THIS TOUR AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 3 Ghost tour could be better
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Sat, Jul 21, 07   9:30 PM pirty792000 Female 20-29 Unspecified Family With Children
  I really liked the tour guide, very knowledgable, but i was not impressed so much with the tour. For all the walking that was involved, we didn't get to actually "see" anything. I'm not saying ghosts, necessarily, but we never went inside anywhere. We walked around, heard all the stories that we (my son and I) had read about...but never went anywhere but the sidewalks. I was not impressed. We would like to go on other tours, but are they the same? Because if so, I'm not spending $40.00 for the same, disappointing trip.
Rating: 1 Disappointment
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Fri, Jul 20, 07   7:30 PM Farmer5207 Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified
  The web site made it look as if this were the best tour in Charleston, and that spaces were so limited you'd need to purchase tickets far in advance in order to get in on this tour. My family has gone on ghost tours all over the south, and this one was the worst by far. We were the only people in our group, our tour guide was less than enthusiastic, and the stories weren't so great, either. They could have been made better if the guide had felt more like putting effort into it. I suspect that the small group (of four) was disappointing to him as well. Never again.
Rating: 3 Okay, not sure I would go again
The Ghosts of Charleston Tour - Waterfront Park
  Thu, Jul 19, 07   9:30 PM jedwards Female 30-39 Domestic Tourist(s) Group of Friends
  The tour was okay but I am not sure I would go again. The tour started late and our guide person did not show up, so we had to go with another tour. The guide did a good job but he was hard to hear, I thought he would wear some kind of microphone but he did not. According to the reservation, he would be wearing a black shirt and carrying a book. He had on a white shirt and the book was not easily accessible. We finally had to ask if he was the ghost tour guide. We also thought the tour would be a little bit spooky but it was not. Just a walk through the city with a few stories.
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