Company's Description:

Gray Line of Charleston offers a choice of guided mini-bus tours of the historic, charming city of Charleston, designed to give you a fun and informative look into the city’s well-preserved past.

Our comfortable, air-conditioned and heated mini-buses travel at a pace that allows you to see and learn about more than 100 points of interest within the city’s historic district. You’ll get an up-close look at old Charleston neighborhoods, pre-revolutionary and antebellum buildings, and gardens and parks that have survived earthquakes, fires, wars, tornados and hurricanes. Our licensed guides bring 300 years of history alive with a narrative that melds history, culture and humor.

Gray Line of Charleston also partners with Spirit Line Cruises and Fort Sumter Boat Tours to offer visitors land and sea packages with comprehensive, historically accurate and entertaining tours of the entire historic district and beyond. Gray Line Tours has been trusted by tourists for over 100 years and is truly dedicated to serving as the local expert in every city in which we operate.

HISTORIC CHARLESTON TOUR:
90 minutes

The Historic Charleston Tour is a one-and-a-half-hour city tour that includes at least 100 points of interest about Charleston history, with a stop at Charleston’s picturesque Battery for closer views of Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumter and Patriots Point. A great opportunity for waterfront photos, so be sure to bring your camera!

The Historic Charleston Tour departs every 30 minutes, starting at 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. March-November and until 2 p.m. December-February, from the Visitors Center located at 375 Meeting Street. Parking is available in the Visitors Center parking garage.

HISTORIC CHARLESTON & HISTORIC HOME TOUR:
2 hours

This tour adds the chance to visit a historic Charleston home to the end of the Historic Charleston Tour. Guests can explore the restored Joseph Manigault house, a National Historic Landmark constructed in 1803.

This tour departs every 30 minutes, Monday through Saturday starting at 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. March-November and until 2 p.m. December-February , from the Visitors Center located at 375 Meeting Street. Parking is available in the Visitors Center parking garage. On Sundays, the Joseph Manigault house does not open until noon. Parking is available in the Visitor’s Center parking garage.

HISTORIC CHARLESTON &
FT. SUMTER OR SPIRITLINE HARBOR TOUR:
3 hours

This tour combines the Historic Charleston tour with your choice of a cruise to Fort Sumter, where the first shot was fired in the Civil War, or a cruise around Charleston Harbor. Both narrated boat tours offer scenic views of the harbor and ocean, and insight into points of interest, including the new Ravenel Bridge, Fort Sumter, Patriots Point, Waterfront Park and the city’s busy seaport. The boat ride to Fort Sumter includes a stop at Fort Sumter National Monument, where historians provide detailed information about the Fort and its pivotal role in American history.

Location: Visitors Center at 375 Meeting Street

Phone: (843) 722-4444

Website

Also see SpiritLine Cruises and Fort Sumter Tours too!