French Quarter Charleston: Self-Guided Solo Tour

Embark on a self-guided solo tour of the historical French Quarter in Charleston. Explore at your own pace, on your own schedule, and discover the captivating stories of its alleys, buildings, churches, and more. Download the WalknTours app and start your adventure today!

Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Charleston City Market - Originally built in 1841 and it was modeled after the Temple of the Wingless Victory in Athens, Greece, the Charleston City Market is a must see. And great place to find a bite to eat. \n\nHere you’ll discover the City Market and hear the story of the confederate museum. We will not go in. \n\nIf you take the tour between…
What's Included
  • WalknTours Smart Phone guided solo tour
  • ‘Virtual Walk’ unlocked post-tour for anytime listening
Additional Information

Visit the historic French Quarter of Charleston and unravel its narrative. Navigate at a speed that suits you, at a time that best fits your agenda and in a manner entirely up to you. It’s akin to having a personal tour guide, but on your mobile device: more accessible and engaging.
The WalknTours app guides you effortlessly through the French Quarter,…

Location
73 N Market St
North Market Street
The tours starts at the front of the Charleston City Market, just next to Meeting Street
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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David_b
Jul 14, 2024
Great alternative to guided tours - I lived the flexibility of this self guided tour. The locations were accurate and the dig deeper option was really useful. I’ll always look for these type of self guided audio tours from now on. Especially when I’m travelling solo
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Beckybt8676un
Apr 23, 2024
Great value - Great overview of the French quarter. Lots of information but not too much. Well paced. We liked being able to stop and go deeper or press the “dig deeper button” where things were of more interest.
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Heather_s
Mar 29, 2024
Great family self-guided tour - This was the best little tour for our little family. Incredibly informative, flexible for longer stops and "deeper digs" into the historical sites. The only thing I would love to see added is Rainbow Row.
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N7218vtdougs
Mar 10, 2024
Charleston - This was a great solo tour- easy city to navigate and so much history. Sunny beautiful day so that helped. Incredible food along the way also.
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Penny_d
Mar 8, 2024
Great tour - Great self guided tour . It was a little confusing downloading but we got it . Couple spots where the horn or whistle would repeat so not sure if we missed anything .
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Rebecca_l
Mar 4, 2024
Best Walking Tour Ever! - My daughter and I came down to Charleston for my birthday. My daughter is 21 and I really didn’t think she was going to enjoy this tour very much but she said it was one of her favorite things that we did while we were here. For both of us, having the freedom to stop and go as we wanted and having the tour recorded where we could rewind it, and we each shared an AirPod made it very engaging for us. we also enjoyed being able to walk at a faster pace how much we were going to eat later that day lol we are planning on coming back and doing the tour again and a slower pace though and when some of the other places are open so we can go into them. we had a kayaking tour booked that we had to make it to so we had to stay on schedule, but this was just an amazing tour definitely in the top things that we did for my birthday that weekend! We did take heed from the other reviews and we made sure everything was downloaded before we left our hotel and everything was seamless. We had no problems at all and I definitely think the self guided tours are the way to go.
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Michael_s
Feb 28, 2024
Fun walk - Highly recommend for a solo tour. We were really impressed with it. Quite informative. You can go at on pace. We had to stop cause my phone about died about half way thru it. Had to go back to car and charge it up and we went right back to where we stopped tour at and continued
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Amy
Mar 22, 2024
Entertaining & Historic - After I got past the “Howdy partner “talk, I was able to listen, and really enjoy the history of this tour. Charleston is a beautiful city, and the stories that were told during this tour were extremely interesting and historically based. Great little quick tour of Charleston’s historic & iconic places!
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Sandygt499to
Sep 3, 2024
Light on historical information - I like the concept of a self-guided tour and it was well paced. The historical information was superficial and the background noises were distracting. The exaggerated southern accent was unnecessary.
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Devin_p
May 2, 2024
Not worth it. - The app you need to install is very tied to your location, if you want to stand 20 feet away in the shade while listening, it won't let you. Most of the time. It's hit or miss. It's not very user friendly, and the tour gave about 30 seconds of information per stop. After battling with it for 15 minutes, we gave up and read plaques instead. Glad it was cheap.
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up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).