Things To Do In Downtown Charleston SC

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There are so many things to do in downtown Charleston! I’m sharing lots of places to eat, rooftop bars for cocktails, shopping, and more!

Hello beautiful friends and happy spring! Woohoo! We made it. :) We had a few gorgeous sunny, warm days last week but I didn’t get to enjoy any of them! I was sick, boo. Now that I’ve finally recovered, it’s back to being cold. haha!! Figures! But it’s coming soon.

Since I’ve been sick I haven’t really had a chance to do any new makeovers. (I was actually sick when I had to do our Trashy Treasures project last week, boo!) But I have some things planned!

Today I thought I’d share a little about the girl’s trip I went on the first weekend in March to Charleston, SC. We have family there but we don’t usually go downtown that often. So this was seeing Charleston in a completely different way.

I will share some of the places we went. Girl’s trip, so you know there was shopping and eating! ha!

Things To Do In Downtown Charleston SC

Let me show you the place we stayed first. It was in the perfect location. And it was an old home which so much fun to stay in.

I mean just look at those porches, off of the bedrooms upstairs and the living spaces below.

I took a bunch of pictures of the inside but I’ll just share a few of them and the listing. (as my post is photo heavy already)
Here is the listing to see the house and where it is in Downtown Charleston.

Like the original knobs on the doors. Gorgeous!

Pocket doors. Love!

I love staying in old homes. We stayed in an old home like this in Savannah years ago. Love the history of them!

We were almost across from the fire station.

Isn’t it pretty?

The home we stayed in was on Cannon St. Cannon is a family name for me so that was fun!

We got a shot with these heroes the first night there.

And waved hi to them every night as we walked past. They got a call right after we took this shot and had to race out.

It rained ( a lot) the first day/night there. But that didn’t stop us! We had drinks and snacks at several places.
Felix, The Grocery, Uptown Social.

All within a very short walking distance. We walked the entire time there.

The second day we walked all the way to downtown and then Uber’d back.

I don’t watch Southern Charm. Two of us did and two of us didn’t. lol So apparently Uptown Social is a regularly visited place by the “cast”.

So is this place apparently.

Republic

And of course, we stopped by Sewing Down South. (if you watch Southern Charm, then you know…I don’t so it meant nothing to me!! lol)

And guess what? Craig (who is on the show and owns the store) stopped in while we were there. My two friends got a photo of him but I and our other friend who does not watch walked on down the street. Sorry if you are a fan! ;)

Glazed doughnuts, yummy.

I love all of the pretty architecture in downtown Charleston.

(ignore my sunglasses, oops)

We had breakfast at Big Bad Breakfast one morning.

How creative are the colorful egg cartons up there??

We didn’t eat here, just peeked inside. Gingerline.

It’s down near the Charleston City Market. We went through there too but I didn’t get any photos of that.

I don’t remember the name of this restaurant but it was so pretty I had to snap a photo.(it was in the same area as above)

Carmella’s, oh my.

We waited in a LONG line for this…

And it was worth it!

Of course, we had to see the Pineapple fountain.

We did a little nightlife too. This place had a rooftop bar. Fun!

Bubbles from the rooftop bar above.

We ended up heading back to our house early as most of the people in line for these places were youngin’s!! haha!

We had a cute bagel/coffee place across from our house.

Holey City Bagels.

I had to take them to Shem Creek, Red’s.

Saw some dolphins playing in the water while we were there.

We had not had a proper dinner since we got there so decided to have dinner at this place my sister-in-law recommended.

Burwell’s. I don’t know what was in those deviled eggs but they were magical!

The owner (or manager?) made this light fixture. Very cool.

Of course, you must visit Rainbow Row. We did but I guess I didn’t get a photo. You must also visit the waterfront in downtown Charleston and all of the gorgeous homes down there.

Sullivan’s Island, Ilse of Palms, Mount Pleasant. So many places to see and things to do. But today it’s mostly about things to do in downtown Charleston.

Here are a few other posts I’ve written from past visits to the Charleston area:

• Charleston (and other places)
• Charleston & Mount Pleasant
• Charleston SC

It’s been many, many years since I’ve done this but another fun thing to do in downtown Charleston is to do the carriage tour through town. They tell you all of the history. It’s really fun and informative! We wanted to do this on this trip but ran out of time.

If you haven’t been, I hope you’ll plan a trip soon. It’s a great place to vacation.

Bye for now! (that’s the yellow house we stayed in the morning we were leaving)

I hope you enjoyed seeing a little of downtown Charleston!

xo