Charleston, United States

Post House Inn

Price per night from$327.75

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Style

Pint sized n' peachy

Setting

Mount Pleasant indeed

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A petite Lowcountry pad with a whole lot of charm, Charleston’s the Post House Inn has been wooing guests and locals alike since it opened back in 2020. And, despite its pint-sized proportions, there’s a lot to love, not least its location in the old village of Mount Pleasant, whose clapboard houses, trim lawns and white picket fences you may well have glimpsed in The Notebook, which was filmed here. Other heart-breakers on offer include seasonal Southern fare (plus an oh-so-ample wine list) and vintage-inspired rooms dressed in William Morris florals and peppered with mid-century furnishings. Just swell.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Seven, including three suites.

Check–Out

11am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

Prices

Double rooms from £305.08 ($380), including tax at 16 per cent.

More details

Rates include a European-style breakfast of prosciutto, cheese, croissants, fruit and eggs on weekdays, and a breakfast basket of pastries, yoghurt and granola delivered to your door on weekends.

Also

Jetlag got you down? Two free drinks at check-in will perk you right back up.

At the hotel

Bikes to borrow, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Cable TV, Malin + Goetz bath products, minibar, and pillow spray.

Our favourite rooms

While alike in style – charmingly retro with modish mid-century touches – each room differs in layout and detail. William Morris fans will love rooms One, Three and Six, dressed in his signature florals, while those that can’t resist a pre-dinner soak should opt for Room Seven, the only room with a bath tub, and a sky-lit one at that.

Spa

While there’s no spa on site, guests of the inn have access to a small 24-hour gym right across the street – just ask the front desk for a key card.

Packing tips

Leave room in your suitcase for a lesser-known Charleston speciality: tea. The city’s home to the oldest commercial tea farm in North America, so load up on flavourful loose leaves and all manner of brewing accessories.

Also

Unfortunately, this hotel is not suitable for those with mobility issues.

Children

Welcome, though not particularly catered for. Pack and plays can be provided for infants, but those with older children should opt for Room Six and its pull-out sofa bed.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

The parasol-shaded sofas out on the lawn make a mighty fine spot for cocktail-charged people-watching.

Dress Code

Blend in with the linen-clad locals with an easy-breezy coastal Americana look.

Hotel restaurant

Post House Inn owners Ben and Kate know a thing or two about good food, having already made waves with their popular plant-based eatery Basic Kitchen in downtown Charleston. So when the hotel’s restaurant opened its doors in 2020, locals flocked in to sample their latest endeavour. With its focus on locally-sourced, fresher-than-fresh produce and comfort-food favourites, unsurprisingly, many made multiple return visits. You’ll see Charlestonians gathering for brunch in the rear dining room where wood-panelled walls are hung with the work of local artists and vintage maps, or sipping sherry under the candy-striped patio awning. The menu’s influenced by the city’s semi-tropical climate, using exotic herbs and spices to elevate all-American fare; choose from juicy Brasstown beef cheeseburgers, pies and oysters dished out from an old-school serving hatch or blue-crab toast and pickled chilli slathered in comeback sauce (a southern dressing made of mayonnaise, chilli, ketchup, lemon and Worcester sauce).

Hotel bar

Street-facing, with a parasol-flanked patio, the bar – much like the hotel itself – is petite in its proportions, though ambitious in its offerings. Expect a cocktail menu that combines spirit-driven classics: the ‘skinny margarita’, for example, made with altos tequila, lime and dry curaçao – with experimental, seasonally-inspired libations and a very generous wine list.

Last orders

On weekdays, the bar and restaurant is open from 11am to 3pm and 5pm to 10pm. On weekends, they open at 10am.

Room service

Order anything from the restaurant’s menu anytime within operational houses. Or, breakfast in your bathrobe between 7.30am and 10am.

Location

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Address
Post House Inn
101 Pitt Street
Mount Pleasant
29464
United States

You’ll find Post House Inn along a charming street of old-school shops and Southern-style houses in the old village neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, just 10 minutes from Downtown Charleston.

Planes

Charleston International Airport is a 20-minute drive away from the hotel. From here, a taxi will set you back around $30.

Trains

North Charleston Station serves as the Amtrak train station for the Greater Charleston area and links the city with most major destinations along the east coast and beyond.

Automobiles

It’s unlikely you’ll need a car; Mount Pleasant and neighbouring Downtown Charleston are both compact, pedestrian-friendly areas, plus, the city’s free Dash shuttle service runs three routes around the city should your feet grow weary. Saying that, if beach-hopping and Lowcountry exploring is on the cards, wheels can come in handy. There are multiple rental booths at the airport and street parking around the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

South Carolina’s oldest city has been around ever since King Charles (the second one, that is) of England founded it back in 1670. You won’t be surprised then, that heritage-inspired happenings are the order of the day. Explore Charleston by foot on a Lowcountry historic tour (or trade the walking part for a full-blown horse-drawn-carriage ride), visit grand plantations like Drayton Hall and Magnolia Gardens, get lost in the cobblestone streets, or hideout from the heat at the Charleston Museum, where you’ll find artefacts from the city’s cultural and natural history, including a suspended whale that surfaced in the city’s harbour in 1880. If the southern sunshine isn’t too searing, borrow a bike from the hotel and make your way to Sullivan’s Island, a lovely beach town around three miles from the Post House Inn, which is also home to three miles of white sand beaches, a wealth of family-owned restaurants, handsome coastal homes, and some more unusual draws. The Edgar Allen Poe Library, set in a former Spanish-American gun bunker is one such curiosity, just a couple of blocks away from Fort Moultrie, where the macabre master was stationed for a year after he was booted from the University of Virginia for running up gambling debts. Closer to home, Shem Creek is somewhat of a local secret – a lively estuary where shrimpers, boaters and seafood lovers gather. Try your hand at kayaking, paddleboarding or crabbing, saunter down the boardwalk, get stuck into a plate of fresh fried flounder or hop onboard one of the coastal expeditions for great views of the harbour.

Local restaurants

In downtown Charleston, Post House Inn’s sister restaurant Basic Kitchenis a bastion of plant-forward fare (not to mention a welcome relief for vegetarians in a landscape of shrimps and sausage stews). But that’s not to say it’s boring – get into the Southern spirit with the vegan barbecue platter of local collard greens, mushrooms, butterbeans and vegan mac and cheese. Over at Sullivan’s Island, Sullivan’s Fish Camp’s nostalgically nautical pine wood interiors are something to swoon over, as is their menu of fresh fried fish, peel-and-eat shrimp and indulgent sharing plates, like jalapeño and gouda drop biscuits with crème fraîche and honey butter. While you’re out that way, be sure to stop in at the Obstinate Daughter – a loved-by-locals Lowcountry ‘food fort’, where you’ll find chef Will D'Erasmo slinging his signature Mediterranean fare. The headliner has to be the ricotta gnocchi with short-rib ragù and horseradish gremolata.

Local cafés

Just next door, Pitt Street Pharmacyboasts a Fifties-style soda fountain, a long-standing reputation for the best grilled-cheese sandwich in town and some wickedly creamy milkshakes. 

Local bars

While there’s not much by way of nightlife in the immediate vicinity (great news for light sleepers), happy-hour hotspot Tavern & Table is just an eight-minute walk away, with gorgeous views of Shem Creek, seasonal craft beers and barrel-aged cocktails to boot. Across the water, however, things get rather rowdy at the Commodore, a destination jazz bar in the heart of the city’s historic French Quarter, where disco balls, velvet curtains and dimly lit nooks and crannies set the scene for nightly live music and spirited dancefloor antics.

Reviews

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Across the water from the hustle and bustle of downtown Charleston, slower rhythms take hold within the old village of Mount Pleasant, where you’ll find the Post House Inn. Those partial to a teary-eyed romantic drama may well recognise the village as The Notebook’s setting, with its charming clapboard houses, white picket fences and perfectly pruned lawns. In the middle of it all, this equally charming crash pad is for Southern saunterers who prefer to spend their downtime at a leisurely pace. Rooms come adorned with the work of local artists, William Morris florals and a peppering of mid-century pieces for good measure, while downstairs in this pocket-sized pad, the loved-by-locals coastal tavern spills from the dining room onto the patio, where you can rub shoulders with well-heeled villagers while tucking into seasonal Southern fare. And just like Ryan Gosling himself (or so we’d like to imagine…) it’s exceedingly romantic: a cocktail at check-in? Handwritten notes sealed in wax and left on your pillow? Old-school tassel keys? Consider us seduced.

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