Word on the street
What locals are saying
The oldest family-owned carriage company in Charleston — running since 1983 with French Percherons and Belgians that spend their off-season on a 65-acre Johns Island plantation — Old South Carriage carries real institutional weight. The Red Sash on the guide is the calling card, but the experience lives and dies by who's holding the reins: a sharp storyteller turns 30 blocks of cobblestones into something genuinely memorable, while a repetitive guide can flatten the city's deep history into recitation. The haunted evening tours draw consistent crowds but split opinion on whether the ghost content earns its billing.
guide personality makes or breaks the hourBelgian and Percheron horses, Johns Island off-seasonRed Sash as the house identifiercity-assigned routes — no guaranteed path at bookinghaunted tours popular but unevenfamily-owned institution since 1983
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