The Beach Club at Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina, Mount Pleasant, for elegant coastal charm

Experience the best of Southern living at this coastal hotel with a private beach overlooking Charleston Harbor and the city skyline. Don’t miss the Charleston Water Taxi, which will whisk you from the hotel marina to the Charleston Historic District, where the aristocratic homes and palmetto-lined avenues evoke the splendor and shadows of the antebellum south. While the hotel isn’t old, it’s in the style of the traditional Carolina Lowcountry homes, with a coastal palette in the rooms, all of which feature balconies or patios furnished with classic Adirondack chairs. The public spaces wow with high ceilings, plantation shutters and shady verandas ideal for sipping mint juleps.