Cheap Getaways: Charleston, S Carolina

Another inward our bespeak to honour character traveling on a meager budget…

This week, we’ve highlighted i of our favorite destinations, Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston has larn out much to a greater extent than pop to see than it was when nosotros start went a duo of decades ago. As a result, it tin move last a challenge to see on a budget but if you’re inward the Southeast, it makes a groovy weekend getaway or a stopover on the agency to somewhere else. Many people, us included, come upwardly hither equally a prime number opor-garai goal from all over the world…certainly, it’d brand a groovy weekend getaway if you lot alive inside driving distance.

Here is what you lot tin move facial expression to pay inward 2012 for 2 nights inward Charleston…

Charleston is inside a day’s get of many southern cities such equally Jacksonville, Knoxville, Atlanta, Charlotte, together with fifty-fifty Norfolk.  The farthest get is from Norfolk at 425 miles…closest would last Columbia, SC at ninety miles. Six hours together with $225 volition last the most you’d ask from the far terminate together with an sixty minutes together with a one-half addition $60 from the closer areas if your motorcar gets xvi mpg together with you lot pay $4 per gallon for gas. That should too larn you lot plenty to get roughly the surface area spell you’re there.

Let’s tell $150 for gas on the average. It tin move last a chip much but if you lot convey a higher mileage motorcar or gas prices larn out down, figure from there.

GAS - $150

Hotel – While Charleston is total of premium hotels together with quaint bed together with breakfasts, those are for a splurge, non a budget weekend. To rest on track, we’ll caput merely betwixt the town together with the aerodrome or larn out across the bay to Mt. Pleasant, both decent areas to rest together with a brusk get into the catch of the city. Examples are Springhill Suites at $89 together with Quality Inn at $80. Both include breakfast.

HOTEL - $160 - $190

Food – Charleston is a premiere nutrient destination. Hundreds of restaurants from burger stands, soul nutrient hangouts, together with haute Southern cuisine emporiums volition tempt your gustation buds.  We actually enjoyed the fresh brewed beer together with southern cooking of the Southend Brewery together with Smokehouse on the corner of Bay together with Queen Streets. Expect to pay nearly $20 per someone for a repast together with a pint of beer, alongside taxation together with tip, nearly $50 for two. Our other splurge would last to sit down exterior at sunset at Vickery’s Bar together with Grill over inward Mt. Pleasant overlooking the shrimp boats. H5N1 dinner for 2 hither would ready you lot dorsum nearly the same equally Southend. Let’s add together $10 for a low-cal lunch…after all, you’re getting a total breakfast at the hotel. I mightiness fifty-fifty skip it together with salve room (and money) for dinner.

FOOD - $120

Fun – The fun materials never stops here. H5N1 ninety infinitesimal tour to Fort Sumter volition ready you lot dorsum $17 each together with I notice that the elevators are out of service spell they’re existence overhauled, thence if you’re inward a wheelchair this would last a waste materials of money. You tin move see Fort Moultrie…the fort that Sumter was exchanging cannon burn on that fateful day…over on Sullivan’s Island for free. It’s merely by Mt. Pleasant together with you lot tin move easily get there.

Wheelchair accessible walking tours are the best agency to encounter Charleston together with to larn steeped into its history. Walks are themed to ghosts, slavery, pirates, together with other points inward the city’s history. Original Charleston Walks Pb many tours together with the cost is roughly $15 per person.

Visiting the battery on the eastward betoken of the metropolis where you lot tin move encounter Fort Sumter together with Rainbow Row is free.

FUN - $30 - $65 for two

Adding it all up, a weekend getaway to Charleston for those of you lot inward the Southeast volition run you lot roughly $300 to $350 addition the cost of gas. Not bad for a beautiful town alongside groovy nutrient together with lots of things to.

-Darryl

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