My husband, 18 year old daughter and I took a day out of our vacation to do a day trip to Charleston. It takes about 2 hours each way and traffic is pretty congested along 17. The trip home was longer than the trip to. The trip itself was really good. I'll start at the beginning. Make sure you get there 15-20 minutes early. They meet at Broadway at the Beach. Our driver called us at 6:50am asking if we were still coming. We were 5 minutes away and the last people to board. They were waiting on us and departure time was 7:00am. It was a pleasant ride there, very quiet bus with a short Charleston video about 45 minutes from arrival. Our horse and buggy was waiting for us and we quickly got started with a street tour of homes and places of interest. Our guide was really good. He dropped us off at City Market and we had around an hour to shop. We met the charter bus back at our drop off location and he took us to our harbor tour. We had our lunch waiting and were able to eat downstairs in the air conditioning and still have great views. The lunch was good-sandwich, fruit, drink but the sourdough bread was very tough to chew. The narration again, was very good. After that leg of the tour, we got back on the bus to the short drive to Boone Hall Plantation. We saw three rooms of the house, took a ride around the plantation, and had time to quickly run in one of the nine slave cabins. We really needed another half hour to 45 minutes to see everything. The Avenue of the Oaks is absolutely breathtaking. When they made our way back to Charleston.