Make the highlight of your visit to Charleston a step back in time with this tour of Magnolia Plantation combined with a tour of the City of Charleston.. Take the Plantation Nature Tram, visit the house, and peaceful and inspiring Biblical Garden. Then, it's on to the City Tour to see the French Quarter, the Rainbow Row of incredible homes in pastel colors, the Market, Old Citadel, and stop at the famed Battery overlooking Fort Sumter (where the first shot of the Civil War was fired).

There will be a stop in the historic market for shopping and lunch (on your own). The City Tour portion of the tour begins around 3:15 pm. Enjoy the added benefit our shuttle service..a great alternative to locating an all day parking space!

Magnolia Plantation & Charleston City Tour Length: approximately 7 hours  Prices - including tax Our Adult Retail Rate: $72.95 Our Adult Internet Rate: $67.95 Savings: $5.00 Our Child Rate (ages 4-11): $33.95 Time: Monday through Saturday at 9:45 am & 10:30 am   Summary: Tour includes free hotel pick-up and drop-off from most Charleston hotels. Child rate applies to children ages 4 to 11; children 3 and under ride free in an adult's lap. Please reserve online, or call us toll-free at 888-651-1125. ** You will receive an E-Ticket for your tour/activity. We attempt to provide your E-Ticket within 72 hours (if your tour/activity is in less than 10 days). If your tour/activity is within the next 72 hours, your E-Ticket will be processed as quickly as possible. You will need to print your E-Ticket at www.reserve123.com/tickets; you must have your E-Ticket, or you will be charged again with no refund. There is a $3.95 processing fee per order. This is a flat fee regardless of the number of tickets or tours purchased on an order.

Held by the Drayton family for more than 300 years, this estate maintains over 50 acres of landscaped gardens. Magnolia Plantation offers the oldest major public garden in America and is also America's oldest man-made attraction, having been open to the public annually since the late 1860s. Considered by many experts to be "the most beautiful garden in the world" for over one hundred years, its reputation today is maintained by the plantings today which offer the maximum color possible during every season. There is beauty everywhere!

Magnolia Plantation is home to a herd of miniature horses who graze the lawn behind a split-rail fence, ducks and geese that glide through the lovely waters, peacocks who strut the walks, and other fowl that move among the shrubs in the garden.

Some of Magnolia Plantation's other areas of interest are:
~ a Biblical garden which was pictured in Time Magazine
~ a street of antebellum cabins
~ a petting zoo of plantation animals
~ a restored pre-Revolutionary War rice barge
~ an enclosed Barbados tropical garden
~ a topiary garden
~ a large Indian burial mound
~ an extensive gift shop and art gallery
~ a plantation workers' graveyard
~ a wildflower garden

The curtain rises on the Story of Charleston. Sometimes a drama... Sometimes a comedy... Always an adventure.

Introducing Your Cast of Tour Guides:

~~ Jane: "A true southern lady" - "If you want to know Charleston, you need introductions, and Jane, who came to seem like an old friend, knows everyone and everything," so said the late Charles Kuralt, renowned CBS journalist, author and travel writer.

~~ Bill: "A true southern gentleman" - A tour guide with a dash of devilishness to delight you with his insight into the heart of Charleston. He knows how to show that real "southern hospitality".

~~ Bonnie: "A Charleston Original" - Graduate of the College of Charleston, degree in history (Southern, of course) a professional tour guide for 14 years and an abiding love for all things Charleston. Be prepared to fall in love with her tour.

~~ Leroy: "Mr. Southern Hospitality" - Charlestonian by birth, Leroy "rolls out the red carpet" for our guests when he picks them up at their hotels. Shuttle driver for many years and comedian too.

~~ Randy Lee: "Paints Pictures with his Words" - Be prepared to be dazzled. A South Carolinian, one of Charleston's finest artists. He presents his tours with that artist's interpretation of our sophisticated, sultry and sometimes sinful heritage. A proud southern gentleman, his tours are factual, eye-opening & pure entertainment of the highest quality.

~~ Robert: "Be prepared to be blessed on this tour" - Robert is a cheerful soul. Great tour guide with vast knowledge and an episcopal priest too. Our guests depart his tour with a smile on their faces.

What Our Guests Say:

~~ "We took your tour and just wanted you to know how much everyone enjoyed it. You kept us in stitches the whole time and were very informative." - Lynda and Mike G.

~~ "You extended such "Southern Hospitality and Welcome" that even the coldest one of us Yankees went away with a warm and fuzzy feeling and we want to come again to Charleston!" - USS Haddo

~~ "This is a tour I would recommend to anyone. Great!" - Holly S.

Tour includes free hotel pick-up and drop-off from most Charleston hotels. Child rate applies to children ages 4 to 11; children 3 and under ride free in an adult's lap. Please reserve online, or call us toll-free at 888-651-1125.