Signature Experience Private Tour
$25.00/person
Minimum 15 people
Allow 2 hours
Explore Drayton Hall like never before with a one-hour private guided tour, led by on of our expert interpreters. Visit the cellar, main floor, and second floor of the historic house while discovering the stories of those who lived and labored here. After the tour, your guide will remain in the Steven and Laura Gates Exhibit gallery to answer questions and share deeper insights into Drayton Hall’s rich history.
Your visit includes the Steven and Laura Gates Exhibit Gallery, showcasing furniture, artwork, manuscripts, and archaeological discoveries on display for the first time, the Lenhardt Courtyard Garden, featuring historically accurate Drayton family plantings, and the Caretaker’s House, highlighting the post-Civil War period and 20th-century history at Drayton Hall.
Complete your experience at The Shop at Drayton Hall, offering unique gifts, art reproductions, Drayton-inspired porcelain, and local favorites for every visitor.
Book your private Drayton Hall tour today and enjoy Charleston’s premier historic house and museum experience.
A Day at Drayton Hall
$85.00/person (includes a catered lunch)
Minimum 15 people
Allow 4 hours
Experience America’s oldest unrestored plantation house with a full-day visit to Drayton Hall. Your group will enjoy a professionally guided tour of the Main House, exploring its Palladian-inspired architecture and learning about the social history of the house and grounds.
Guests will also enjoy a Charleston-catered boxed lunch in our temperature-controlled Pavilion before embarking on the self-guided audio Landscape Tour, where the historic grounds and scenic views bring Drayton Hall’s past to life.
Continue your visit with stops at the Steven & Laura Gates Exhibit Gallery and the Caretaker’s House, and pay a visit to A Sacred Place, one of the oldest documented African American cemeteries in America, offering a profound look at the lives of those who lived and labored at Drayton Hall.
Book your Drayton Hall tour today and immerse yourself in Charleston’s rich history, architecture, and heritage.
A Day on the Ashley
Package Tour with Middleton Place
$120.00/person (includes lunch at Middleton Place)
Minimum 15 people
Allow 5 hours
Charleston’s most historic Ashley River plantations have created a package that invites groups to tour Drayton Hall and Middleton Place, and enjoy an authentic Lowcountry lunch. The package includes a Signature Tour at Drayton Hall, a guided tour of the Middleton Place House Museum, self-guided tours of America’s oldest landscaped gardens, stable yards, freedmen’s cabin, chapel, and Museum Shop, and a Lowcountry lunch at the Middleton Place restaurant.
