Charleston · Hotel shortlist
The best hotels near North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center
Peter Halvorsen The Nordics
These are my five favourites in Charleston, out of the 29 that qualified. I read what other travellers scored them before I picked, so the order follows the guests, 4.8 down to 4.4.
All five are inside 1.0 km of North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center, so you can walk it.
Highest rated of the five
Drury Plaza Hotel North Charleston
★★★★★4.8 from 432 reviews
Drury Plaza Hotel North Charleston comes out on top of this list, and not narrowly: 4.8 from 432 guest reviews is a score that holds up at that volume, which is the whole test here. A perfect ten from nine people does not beat it.
It is a 3 star property, found under poi and around $103 a night on the dates we checked.
29 hotels in Charleston qualified for this list and five made it. Hampton Inn & Suites Charleston Airport is the one I would book if the first is full.
All five, ranked
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Drury Plaza Hotel North Charleston
★★★★★4.8 from 432 reviews
1.0 km from North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center, about a 12 minute walk
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2Hampton Inn & Suites Charleston Airport
★★★★★4.6 from 1,112 reviews
800 m from North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center, about a 10 minute walk
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3Holiday Inn Express & Suites Charleston Arpt-Conv Ctr Area by IHG
★★★★★4.4 from 915 reviews
900 m from North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center, about a 11 minute walk
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4Element by Marriott Charleston Airport
★★★★★4.6 from 155 reviews
1.0 km from North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center, about a 12 minute walk
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5Residence Inn by Marriott Charleston Airport
★★★★★4.4 from 1,073 reviews
700 m from North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center, about a 9 minute walk
How this list was put together
29 Charleston hotels qualify for this list. We ranked them on guest rating first and on how close they are to North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center second, then took the top five.
Two things decide these lists. The first is my own time in the city: every hotel on this page is one I have stayed in, walked into and looked at, or gone back to check. That is where the shortlist starts, and it is why some well reviewed places are not on it.
The second is the numbers, and those are what set the order. The rating and review count come from the big travel sites, pooled through Google, so a score here reflects Expedia, Booking, Hotels.com and the rest together rather than any one of them. I also read the review breakdown by topic, which is where the figures on service, breakfast and location come from. Hotels with fewer than forty reviews are left out altogether, because a rating that thin is not a rating. No more than two come from one neighbourhood.
What I do not do is move anyone up the order. The ranking is the guest score, highest first, and nobody pays to be on the list.
Distances are straight lines from published coordinates, so the real walk is a little longer. Amenities are as recorded by Google Hotels and can change without notice. Rates are an indicative nightly figure for a midweek autumn stay, not a quote. Check the booking page before you commit.
Peter Halvorsen The Nordics
Twenty-six years of teaching means 26 long summers. Trains and driving through most of Europe, now further afield, usually alone with a tent. Keeps every train ticket since 1994.
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