We really enjoyed our boat tour, only on our night it wasn't the Carolina Belle, but another nice ship. I would highly recommend this experience to visitors to Charleston. A few observations that might help if you are considering going. The location where you board was kind of out of the way of any convenient parking, and I have an injured ankle, so we took an uber here, which we pre-arranged both the drop off and pick up for our Uber. for early arrivals for the sunset cruise, there was a shady area with some benches to wait the hour before the boat leaves. I noticed several people in addition to myself who were injured and either had walkers, in orthopedic boots, canes, etc. But at some point way too early in my opinion, a young man came out and asked us to "line up" to get on the boat. I think the boat tour was to start at 7:00 pm and we were asked to line up maybe at 6:15-20? So then we all had to stand in line in the hot sun. I ended up having to just sit down on the concrete because I simply could not stand so long with my injury. I thought making people do this was kind of dumb and instead they should add more seating and allow the people to wait longer before "lining up". I would advise getting there early to get on the boat earlier rather than later. We got a good seat on the open part in the middle area (of course we weren't on the regular boat, the Carolina Princess, so I'm not sure how that was configured). But we noticed virtually everyone who got on headed up to the highest part which was uncovered; only, there weren't hardly any seats up there and it got crowded so inevitably those same people would come tromping back down. I wonder why the boat company doesn't just put more chairs up there since that's where most people seem to want to be? Also, there is some interesting narrative but our guide kind of had a casual slurred (not drunk) type speech and I wish the narration had been a little louder and more distinct speech to better hear what he was saying. We sat on the same "floor" that the ramp takes you to, which was great, but when I asked about the restroom someone told me it was down the stairs and I didn't want to navigate those steps. But that is likely not the case on the regular boat. At any rate, this was a great wonderful evening, very lovely, and I highly recommend and wouldn't hesitate to do it again .