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Hotel Information: Although it's across the street from the busy City Market, the hotel supplies a tranquil ambience inside for leisure and business travelers wishing to be in the center of Charleston's lively day and night scene.
Amenity highlights: Featuring 18th-century French decor, the spacious lobby of the French Quarter Inn offers conversation areas with overstuffed seating, a gas fireplace, and complimentary, 24-hour self-service that includes coffee, lemonade, fruit-flavored iced teas, and candies; a walled terrace off the lobby provides wrought-iron seating for enjoying the hotel's deluxe Continental breakfast each morning amid a tranquil ambience of flowers, plants, and fountain.
Rooms
The French Quarter Inn offers 50 guestrooms in a four-story, restored 19th-century brick building containing a round skylighted atrium. Triple-sheeted beds are supplied with plush-top mattresses, down blankets, and white matelassé bedspreads. A pillow menu offers six choices, from buckwheat to down. Waffle-weave bathrobes supply lounging comfort. Ceiling fans furnish a cooling option to rooms' air conditioning.
Bathrooms include gilt-framed mirrors, black-and-white-tile checkerboard floors, shower/tub combinations, and Gilchrest & Soames English toiletries. Conveniences include complimentary high-speed and wireless Internet connections, and two telephones, one cordless. The hotel's gift shop includes a CD lending library for rooms' CD player/radios.
Decor and furnishings offer custom-made warm-toned furniture, including desks; small, cloth-draped tables; sand-colored wall coverings; tan carpeting; and cream-colored ceilings. King-bed rooms include upholstered reading chairs with ottomans, which are not available in queen-bed rooms.
Self-service coffee is available on floors 24 hours a day.
All rooms are nonsmoking only.
Room Amenities
- Internet access - wireless
- Internet access - high speed
- Premium TV channel(s)
- Cable/satellite TV
- CD player
- Premium bedding
- Climate control
- Ceiling fan
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary newspaper
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Internet access - complimentary
- Multi-line phone
- Free local calls
- Voice mail
- Wake-up calls
- Housekeeping (daily)
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Makeup mirror
- Massage - available in room
- Shower/tub combination
- Child care (in room, surcharge)
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Iron/ironing board
- Television
- Desk
- Clock radio
- Rollaway beds
- Cribs (infant beds) available
Recreation
The nearest golf course is at Patriots Point, 7.5 miles away in the town of Mt. Pleasant.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Pilates classes/instruction nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Fishing nearby
Property Amenities
Guests enter the French Quarter Inn in a rotunda floored with green-and-cream marble, ascend to the second-floor lobby via a brass-door elevator, or climb a spiral staircase with charcoal-granite steps and mahogany-and-wrought-iron railings decorated with forged leaves. Above, a circular, four-story, skylighted atrium has mahogany paneling and black wrought-iron railings on each floor.
The spacious lobby offers widely separated conversation areas with overstuffed seating, a gas fireplace, and complimentary wireless Internet access. Decorated in 18th-century French style, the lobby includes floral carpeting, a molded ceiling, plants, fresh flowers, and a complimentary, 24-hour self-service area with coffee, lemonade, iced teas, and candies. Guests arriving between 3 PM and 11 PM receive champagne and ladyfingers. Also available 24-hours a day is a complimentary computer kiosk with high-speed Internet access where guests can check their e-mail accounts and print airline boarding passes. Wireless Internet access is complimentary throughout the hotel.
Off the lobby, a spacious walled terrace has wrought-iron umbrella tables where complimentary deluxe Continental breakfast can be enjoyed, a wall fountain, hanging plants, trellises with climbing flowers, gas lanterns for after dark, and a covered area furnished with ceiling fans. On the hotel's opposite side, three floors have south-facing balconies.
For surcharges, the reception desk orders faxed editions of domestic and international newspapers. The hotel's gift shop includes a CD lending library for guestrooms' CD player/radios.
- Concierge services
- Complimentary breakfast
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Parking (valet)
- Parking (surcharge)
- Parking garage
- Conference room(s)
- Banquet facilities
- Meeting rooms (small groups)
- Internet access in public areas - complimentary
- Internet access - wireless
- Audio-visual equipment
- Business services
- Number of rooms: 50
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Safe-deposit box - front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Express check- in
- Number of floors: 4
- Gift shops or newsstand
- ATM/banking
- Tour assistance
- Dry cleaning service
- Coffee in lobby
- Fireplace in lobby
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Elevator/lift
- Business center
- Wedding services
- Smoke-free property
- Internet access in public areas - high speed
- Room service (limited hours)
Policies
Extra person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Complimentary rollaway beds and cribs (infant beds) are available and should be requested at the time of booking.
Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests made via this Web site cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
- Pets not allowed
- Check-in time is 3 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
Fees
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at either check-in or check-out.
- Valet parking: $15 per 24-hour period with in/out privileges
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Dining
All guests have the option of a complimentary deluxe Continental breakfast served each morning in guests' rooms, in the lobby, and on a second-floor fountain/garden terrace. In the lobby, wine and cheese are served evenings, cookies and milk served nights, and coffee, lemonade, fruit-flavored iced teas, and candies are available 24 hours a day--all complimentary.
Tristan Restaurant - Open for lunch and dinner. Innovative gourmet recipes. Prime beef, fresh seafood. Sunday brunch and luncheon prix fixe menu. Signature chocolate barbecue sauce. Room service for hotel guests.
Address
166 Church St
Charleston, SC 29401
USA
Nearest major airport:
Charleston, SC (CHS)
Area:
Historic Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
