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A private half-day chauffeured excursion to real Lowcountry plantations, with a box lunch included.
A private, half-day chauffeured excursion for your group only, with a box lunch included — real stops at Drayton Hall, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, and Middleton Place, along the historic Ashley River corridor.
This is a private, half-day chauffeured excursion for your group only, with a box lunch included. Real stops include Drayton Hall, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, and Middleton Place, along the real Ashley River/West Ashley corridor.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup anywhere in the Charleston area.
Drayton Hall, Magnolia Plantation, and Middleton Place, all genuine historic sites.
A real, included meal as part of the private excursion.
Real, dedicated private transportation for your group only.
A genuinely scenic historic route along the real river.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Every group size is covered — from an intimate private ride to large multi-coach groups.
Up to 6
A fast, private ride for couples, small families, or business travelers — plenty of luggage room and a smooth, quiet cabin.
Up to 14
Comfortable, air-conditioned seating for small and mid-size groups — our most popular option for families and friend groups traveling together.
Up to 56
Our largest single vehicle — a full-size luxury motorcoach for large groups, conventions, and corporate events that still want one private tour, one vehicle.
A private, half-day chauffeured excursion for your group only, with a box lunch included — real stops at Drayton Hall, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, and Middleton Place, along the historic Ashley River corridor. This is a private, half-day chauffeured excursion for your group only, with a box lunch included. Real stops include Drayton Hall, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, and Middleton Place, along the real Ashley River/West Ashley corridor.
All three stops on this excursion — Drayton Hall, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, and Middleton Place — sit along the real Ashley River corridor just outside Charleston, part of a stretch of rice plantations that made up the economic backbone of colonial and antebellum South Carolina. That wealth depended directly on enslaved West Africans, many purchased specifically for their expertise in rice cultivation — Charleston slave auctions advertised captives "from the Windward and Rice Coast, valued for their knowledge of rice culture" — whose skill in building the tidal embankments, sluices, and flooded fields that rice farming requires is the real, documented reason this particular stretch of river became plantation country in the first place. A tour of these three sites is also, honestly, a tour of that history.
Drayton Hall is the oldest of the three by construction date, built between 1738 and 1752 for planter John Drayton in a Palladian Georgian style, with a recessed two-story portico that was the first of its kind built in America. It's also the only plantation house on this stretch of the Ashley River to survive the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the 1886 earthquake fully intact — every other grand house along this corridor was destroyed by one of those three events. Rather than restore it, its owners chose to preserve Drayton Hall exactly as it was handed down, with no electricity or plumbing added, which is why it's often described as one of the oldest unrestored plantation houses in the country still open to the public.
Magnolia Plantation traces back even further, to 1676, when Thomas and Ann Drayton established a rice plantation on the site — the Drayton family has owned the land continuously ever since, now fifteen generations later. Its famous picturesque gardens weren't laid out until the 1840s, when the Rev. John Grimké Drayton began planting them to help his Philadelphia-born wife adjust to Lowcountry life; he opened the grounds to paying visitors in 1872, making Magnolia one of the oldest public gardens in the country.
The day's third stop, Middleton Place, gets a fuller telling on Voyzo's dedicated Middleton Place tour — in brief, its gardens were first laid out in 1741 by Henry Middleton and are widely regarded as the oldest surviving formal landscaped gardens in the United States.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
