This is really sad. Those carriage drivers are not some lowly illegals whipping old nags up and down the streets. I’ve taken at least three of those tours and the drivers are historians who beautifully connect the locations to American history. Revolutionary days, Civil War days. They place everything in historical context and give visiting Charleston so much meaning. I would definitely INSIST anyone visiting take at least one. The routes and the stories are different. And the horses are well cared for and beautiful.
I did the harbor tour and carriage ride package. Worth every penny. Your observations of the carriage rides was spot-on with my experience. Cute little blonde driver, that knew her stuff, and didn’t shy away from making a wise crack about the Clintons. She won my heart with that joke.
Being a landlubber, I’d never seen a port or the big ships(and the margaritas on the boat weren’t all that bad either).
My niece and her husband teach at the University of Charleston, so I swung through there after taking my daughter to college in Gainesville. My first real vacation in 20 years.
Had planned to stay a couple more days there, but my father had a stroke while I was gone and I had to head home pronto.