Fodor's Expert Review HarbourView Inn

If you ask for a room with a view or even a private balcony here, you can gaze out over Charleston Harbor and on to the fountain at the center of Waterfront Park. Some of the rooms are in a former 19th-century shipping warehouse with exposed brick walls, plantation shutters, and whirlpool tubs. Four-poster beds and sea-grass rugs complete the Lowcountry look. Afternoon wine and cheese and evening milk and cookies are included. Parking is valet-only for $32 a day. A new hotel is planned across the street that may block some views by 2022, so ask before you book.