Charleston SC Group Tours & Trip Planning the Easy Way

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If you’re in charge of planning group travel and touring in Charleston, SC then you’ve come to the right place. In the group travel guide to Charleston we’ll go over things to do, what you can’t miss and how to come out looking like a rock star for planning the ultimate family reunion, school trip or corporate retreat. 

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Charleston SC Group Tours: Planning What to Do for Your Group

There are so many amazing tours and attractions in Charleston that it can be a bit overwhelming to figure out what to do. The main thing is ensuring that the tour operators have the capacity to get your entire group on a tour. The second is ensuring that the tour operator is reputable and provides an amazing experience.

Top Tours to Consider in Charleston

There are a number of tours that are must-do experiences when visiting Charleston. Below we’ll outline what we think would be the optimal Charleston experience for your group.

  • Fort Sumter Tour – Get on a large ferry boat and take a ride out to this island fort where the first shot of the Civil War took place. This is a fun and laid back tour that takes you out to this National Park where Park Rangers answer questions and explain the role of Fort Sumter throughout the history of America.
  • Harbor Tour – If you don’t want to visit the fort, a great way to experience Charleston from the water is on a harbor tour. Not only are these boats large, they can accomdate a large group. The tour will highlight different points of interest in the harbor. There’s also a snack bar where you can get alcoholic drinks if you choose.
  • Plantation Tours – We have a few different plantations that are included on Tour Pass Charleston such as Boone Hall, Drayton Hall and McLeod Plantation. These properties are not only beautiful, they will give your group a grasp on the role of plantations in our past, the people who lived there and worked the fields as well.
  • Carriage Tour – most carriages in Charleston can take 15 or so people on one tour. Experience 25-30 blocks of the historic district with licensed and experienced guides.
  • History or Ghost Walking Tours – with Tour Pass we have 6 or 7 of the best walking tours in the city. Everything from haunted graveyards to historic stories…learn it all on a walking tour.
  • House Museum Tours – There are a number of great house museums in Charleston that are worth visiting. Just show your pass for entry. Groups are permitted to enter 10 at a time in most homes. Before arriving, please call or contact the property so they’re ready to accept a large group.

Why You Need a Charleston Tour Pass

Stress-Free Touring is What We Do

We work with groups large and small all the time. Tour Pass provides your group with simplistic group reservation via our Mobile Pass.

  • Show one pass and admit everyone at once: You can put all people in your group on one pass…it’s easy! 
  • No need to fumble with paperwork…visit a bunch of website making reservations.
  • The Mobile Pass provides detailed info on all tours, maps and more.
  • Non-consecutive day use: If your group purchases a multi-day pass (2 or more days), your days of use can be non-consecutive if you want. There’s a 10-day window to use your days purchased. A day will not activate until you check-in or make a reservation.
    • For instance you can use your 2-day pass on Monday…skip a few days and use the second day on Wednesday.
  • Save money: You can save a significant amount of money touring with Tour Pass versus paying full retail gate prices.
  • Stress-free touring: We make it easy since only the top tours and attractions are allowed to participate. No bad tours or ruined experiences.
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How Charleston Tour Pass Works

  1. Visit our Charleston page and see what tours and attractions we offer on the pass.
  2. To see availability that each Featured Tour has on the dates you want to travel visit the Charleston Tour Availability Search page
  3. Decide how many days your group want to tour. We have 1 – 5 day pass options. Depending the on the number of day pass you choose, you get to choose the following number of tours:
    1. 1-Day Pass: Choose 2 Featured Tours + you can visit an unlimited number of Standard Attractions.
    2. 2-Day Pass: Choose 3 Featured Tours + you can visit an unlimited number of Standard Attractions.
    3. 3-Day Pass: Choose 4 Featured Tours + you can visit an unlimited number of Standard Attractions.
    4. 4-Day Pass: Choose 4 Featured Tours + you can visit an unlimited number of Standard Attractions.
    5. 5-Day Pass: Choose 5 Featured Tours + you can visit an unlimited number of Standard Attractions.
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Types of Groups We Work With

We’ve worked with the following groups when planning travel:

  • Corporate groups, meeting & conventions
  • Travel Professionals
  • Military reunions
  • Class reunions
  • Educational & school groups

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TourPass provides access and full admission to the top tours and attractions. After purchasing a pass, you can simply select what you want to do, make reservations and present your pass upon arrival. It’s not all about savings, convenience and ease of use should also be considered. Users can save a considerable amount of money and time by using TourPass. 

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Absolutely and we encourage this scenario since purchasing in advance will allow you to fully research and plan your vacation.

After purchase, when your ready, simply activate your pass for when you’ll be visiting and begin making reservations for that future date (can be today, tomorrow or months away).

No it doesn’t. After purchase on the app you select the activation date for when you’re visiting when you’re ready. Then it will ask you to book your featured tours in advance now for when you’re visiting. You don’t have to make tour reservations in advance if you’re not ready.

We give you complimentary refund protection for 30-days after purchasing. If you’d like to extend refund protection up to 1 year, you can purchase Trip Protection during the purchase process. 

No worries. Visit this page on our site tourpass.com/aggregator – select the date you want to tour and it will show you all of the available times for that day prior to purchasing. Now you can confidently  purchase a pass and book those times.

After choosing a day pass and checking out on our site, you’ll instantly receive instructions to install the app. On the app you can: 

  • Set your activation date (can use right away or set for a future travel date).
  • Make Feature Tour reservations now for when you’re visiting in the future.
  • Research what to do – detailed info on all tours.
  • Research landmark sites.
  • Use the interactive map to see where everything is located.

Yes you can skip days. Once activated, you have a total of 10-days to use however many days you purchased. For example, a 2 day pass activated on Monday….take a break Tuesday and then tour again Wednesday….pass expires at midnight on Wednesday.

Most Feature Tours do and reservations are easily made post-purchase on the app. To ensure tour availability before purchasing, visit this page and search the date you want to tour: https://tourpass.com/aggregator 

Standard Tours do not require reservations. Simply arrive and present your pass upon entry. Everything is paid for with TourPass.

Tours are designed to be visited 1x for the entirety of your pass. If for instance you’d like to do the Hop on Hop Off Trolley (Savannah + St. Augustine), then you could check-in on a second day which would use another of your featured tours.

Standard Tours can only be checked into 1x per person for the entirety of your pass.

Yes, we don’t restrict how many feature tours you can visit per day….we do restrict how many total you can choose which is determined by the # of days you select: 1-day = 2 featured. 2-days = 3 and 3-days = 4 featured.

Yes, after purchasing we instantly send instructions to install our app. On the app, you can select the upgrade option and add more days or people to your pass.

If so, go to our FAQ page which goes into more detail and provides videos. https://tourpass.com/frequently-asked-questions/

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