Charleston Get Together

[lumberslinger178]

ok now were rollin.... lets keep it going, I'm going to pic a hotel this weekend.

[the daydreamer]

spare what marina are you looking at? is it city marina? we have put in there many times. charleston is a great place with alot to see and do.you can tour rainbow row at the battery(all the old victoren homes) see the martime musem were the hunley is go downtown to the slave market(at night they have street preformers much like malloey square in key west or go down on king st to jimmy buffetts or ride out to the old fort,or ride out past the isle of palms to bull island! i think in march it will still be a little bit cool. let me know as plans progress! THE DAYDREAMER

[spareparts]

I use Sea Breeze Marina, its not normally used for in the water slips as its a dry stack, but I know the manager and he will let us use the marina as a central point and use of its facilities. The marina doesn't lease out for wet slips. The marina is located at the old Jail House on the City Creek part of the Cooper River. It was right at the base of the old grace Bridge before they tore it down. It faces Drum Island with a view of the Yroktown from accross the harbour. Its right beside the Columbus Street terminal. Trailer parking may be an issue, but I'm working on it. You can actually see a glimps of the building before they renovated it during the movie Die Hard 2 in the scene where they pulled the Dodge truck off the bridge. City Marina is a nice place($$$), its mroe accomodating for in teh water slips, it also has a shuttle to the local sites, my old office was there right beside the Variaty Store Resturant. There is also Charleston Harbor Marina, right in front of the Hiton(figure Willy will be staying there), accross the harbor in Mt Pleasant. Ashely Marina is right beside City, and then The Bristol is right beside the Ashely. Ripley Light is accriss the water from Ashely. There are planty of otehr places to put in or more your boat, but having use of teh facilities for a gatehring may be an issue. Sea Brreze will be accomidating as long as we feed the manager

[spareparts]

heres the link to the SCDNR site for all boating and fishing regulations. It has maps of landings as well. http://www.dnr.sc.gov/boating.html

This site has a lot of links to various maps and information on it fpr teh Charleston area. http://www.charlestonfishing.com/

I highly recomedn looking at Google maps of the area to see just how much water there is around here. There is a lot to do around here

[lumberslinger178]

spare , can you recommend a place to stay its going to be myself my wife and 17 yr old so with the girls its going to have to be a nice place, and being that its going to be my one and only real vacation for the yr I'd like to splurge a little say any where between 100.00 /200.00 per nite?
If there are any links to there websites that would be great.

[spareparts]

just about anyplace down town will be nice. I'll look around and see whats what. The hilton in Mt, Pleasant would be sweet. It has its own Marina in front of it http://www.charlestonharborresort.com/. This site may help you http://www.charleston.com/ find a better place to stay. If any one has a question about a plpace, let me know where and I'll ride by and take a look,

heres part of the post on the other thread
"As far a lodging goes, just about anything in MT. Pleasant is nice(and expensive). Downtown Charleston is great(even more expensive) James Island is decent, North Charleston is hit or miss depending where you're looking. If anyone is going to be towing with a camper or motor home, there are several nice campgrounds around here. Folly Beach is pretty cool, has a ramp nearby, you may be able to find a cottage for rent at an offseason rate. Isle of Palms is $$$$, only Willy could afford to stay there. Goose Creek(where I live) and Summerville both have nice places to stay, but they are probably a little further away than most would want(I live 15 miles from Charleston Harbor). Monks Corner is too far away unless you want to do the tailrace/Cooper River. Anyone find a hotel and want a drive by to see if its decent, let me know "

If any of ya'll are coming from far away and have never been to Charleston before, you might want to think about making it a week vacation, two or three days isn't going to be enough

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguid...on_vacations-i

http://www.undercovertourist.com/uni...harleston.html

http://www.charlestoncvb.com/

[macojoe]

Need a date and see what money is like as time comes near, but will have no boat and need a ride

[garagenc]

Sounds like Wind Talker is awful needy, maybe his ol buddy ol pal CB can haul his butt down here.