Boone Hall Plantation: Historic Charleston Tour Experience

Step back in time with a 4.5-hour visit to Boone Hall Plantation, one of America’s oldest working plantations. Experience a guided house tour, Gullah Theater, and more.

Duration: 4 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Your visit to Boone Hall Plantation starts with transportation by climate-controlled bus from the Charleston Visitor Center. Your gate fee is included in the price of the tour.
Founded in 1681, Boone Hall was built when Englishman Major John Boone came to Charleston and established a home on the banks of Wampacheone Creek. When you arrive, your tour…

What's Included
  • Self Guided Garden Tour
  • Historic slave cabins
  • Pickup and drop-off from a designated meeting point
  • All gate fees included
  • Transport by air-conditioned buses
  • Gullah Theater presentation by costumed performer
  • Availability-based Tram Tour
  • Guided Plantation House Tour with guide in historical dress
  • Expertise of a professional driver
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Travel back in history for a 4.5-hour excursion to one of the oldest operational, living plantations in the United States. Arrive at this significant location with a professional driver in a cool, cozy mini bus. Boone Hall Plantation has earned the title of #1 Plantation in the Charleston area by USA TODAY. The tour package includes two-way…

Location
375 Meeting St
Meeting Street
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Sunshine65754
Apr 7, 2026
Boone plantation tour - Great tour. Plantation was beautiful and the oak trees were very impressive. History of the place were interesting
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Dianaaw8243vh
Apr 2, 2026
Boone Plantation - Beautiful historical plantation. Learned of enslaved workers. Different activities throughout plantation. Azaleas were in full bloom.
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Ronnie_r
Mar 31, 2026
Everyone was very... - Everyone was very knowledgeable. The grounds were so beautifully kept. Definitely a must see. Make sure to see it all, so much history and knowledge being shared.
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Martine_p
Mar 30, 2026
This is probably one of... - This is probably one of my favorite tours in Charleston. Greg was such a great host/driver. I was able to learn so much throughout this tour and met some amazing people and just had a great time.
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X5364njsusanf
Mar 26, 2026
Must do - Great experience. Definitely filled our 3 hours. Van driver was very fun and informative
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Tc8322
Mar 25, 2026
I highly recommend this tour with the company Adventure Sightseeing - The tour was booked with a company that picked us up downtown and gave us round trip transportation. Our driver was Anderson and he was GREAT. Funny, smart and just a happy guy that loves his job. We were at the plantation for 3 hours and it went by very fast. We did the House tour, heard the talk on slavery, history of the plantation and the Gula talk. All were great. I might suggest starting with the history talk of the plantation so that you know more when you see things and hear other stories. This is the company that we used Adventure Sightseeing +18437620088
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Mark_h
Mar 31, 2026
Good tour and worth the trip - Very nice tour. We toured the main house, stable, did the farm tour and the Gullah presentation. We also wandered through the cabin displays and garden. We were there about 3 hours and fit it all in with careful planning. We liked the farm tour with the tractor the best and the Gullah presentation the least. We could barely hear the speaker of the Gullah presentation and she wasn’t very engaging.
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Paradise49479486258
Mar 28, 2026
A very worthwhile experience. - The plantation excursion was great. Our driver Greg, was fabulous and gave us so much information about areas in the city, as he drove to the Plantation. Boone Hall itself is beautiful, the property, gardens, and the house. The only disappointment was that we only got to see 3 areas (rooms) within the house. I thought there would be more.
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Omaawattie_s
Mar 25, 2026
Tour - Driver had so much knowledge and overall was great experience .living out my notebook story and the place is just breath taking
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Katja_p
Mar 28, 2026
Disappointing if you actually want to learn about slavery - Spent three hours there on a group tour, attended every aspect of the property, and left learning almost nothing about slavery. Heard the presentations about various owners of the property, toured the gardens, watched the videos about all of the Hollywood productions filmed there, learned about the cotton gin in the little museum, learned about the animals and the crops they now sell when we went on the tractor tour, and saw the bride and groom walking around because it’s wedding venue. The only bits we got about slavery were the 20 minute slave experience talk that focused on where they think the slaves lived, got to walk through the nine slave quarter buildings which gave very basic info, and heard a presentation from a Gullah woman (best part of the day) which talked only a bit about slaves being captured and transported and focused more on the natural healing properties of the local plants they had to use for medicine. We left feeling like it was a completely sanitized retelling of the past and instead a promotion of what is actually a very beautiful property. Will have to go to the old slave Mart museum to actually learn something.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).