Charleston’s cruise passenger terminal, home port to the Norwegian Majesty and the Carnival Victory plying the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean, is literally in the city's Historic District.
Charleston is today America's most beautifully preserved architectural and historical treasure, aptly called a "living museum".
It has notched up numerous and varied historic "firsts". The first decisive American victory during the Revolution occurred at the Battle of Fort Sullivan. The first regularly scheduled passenger train service in America was established here in 1830. The initial shots of the Civil War were fired on Union troops stationed at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. And the first golf course (Harleston Green) and golf club (The South Carolina Golf Club) in America were established in 1786.
The DASH Trolley departs regularly and provides a very affordable means of transportation to the attractions located in the Charleston's Historic District.
Some of the more popular attractions are White Point Gardens, (commonly called "The Battery") and the Waterfront Park. Other "must see" attractions include the new South Carolina Aquarium, the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon, the Gibbes Museum, the Charleston Museum and its Museum Houses, the Aiken-Rhett House, the Edmondston-Alston House and the Nathaniel Russell House.
Charleston offers a variety of accommodation options. Almost all of the national hotel and motel chains have properties here.
Charleston Hotels
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top Charleston attractions
Fort Sumter
Charleston Museum
Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture
Boone Hall Plantation
Cabbage Row
Old Slave Mart Museum
Old Exchange and Customs House
Gibbes Museum of Art
Fort Moultrie
USS Yorktown
Boone Hall Plantation
Drayton Hall
Magnolia Plantation
Middleton Place
South Carolina Aquarium
Audubon Swamp Garden
Cypress Gardens
Charles Towne Landing.
White Point Gardens (The Battery)
Waterfront Park
Aiken-Rhett House
Edmondston-Alston House
Nathaniel Russell House
nearest ports
Baltimore (Maryland)
Jacksonville (Florida)
Norfolk (Virginia)
Port Canaveral (Florida)
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