Krisam Group

All About Us

One of the finest hotels in Charleston, South Carolina. Located at 205 Meeting Street this elegant hotel is the perfect venue with our award winning Charleston Grill restaurant, extensive meeting and conference facilities and beautifully appointed rooms and suites. The readers of Conde-Nast Traveler and Travel+Leisure magazines continue to recognize Charleston Place as one of the most elite properties in the country. Located in the heart of Charlestons historic downtown, Charleston place offers unparalleled luxury accommodations. Charleston place evokes the feeling of a grand 17th century residence with its Italian marble lobby with open arm staircase to its 12 foot crystal chandelier and luxurious suites. The hotel's extensive facilities include a business center, two restaurants, bar and lounge, live entertainment, meeting and banquet facilities for up to 1,700 people, full service European spa, fully-equipped health club with sauna, steam bath and Jacuzzi, indoor/outdoor heated swimming pool with retractable glass roof, children's splash pool and 24-hour room service, the hotel is A.D.A. compliant and offers 22 specially-equipped rooms for the physically challenged. The top two floors of the hotel are club accommodations, offering private concierge service, all day complimentary beverage service, continental breakfast, afternoon tea, evening cocktails and hors d'oeuvres plus after dinner cordials with desserts. All 441 guestrooms and suites offer marble bathrooms, work desk, complimentary high-speed internet service, dataport, 2-line idd phones, voice mail, hair dryer. Plush robes, individual climate control, iron and ironing board and black-out drapes

Location and Transportation

From Charleston Airport: 12 miles from Charleston Airport. 20 minutes driving time.
Transportation: $60 round-trip per person by taxi. $60 round-trip per person by shuttle.
Domestic Carriers: Continental, Delta, Northwest, United Express, US Airways, American
Additional Airport and Carrier Information: http://www.chs-airport.com/airlines.htm

Parking: $12 per night. Indoor,Valet.
Located Near: In the heart of historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina Charleston place is an only 12 miles from Charleston international airport.
Other Information: Charleston is "new and different", sophisticated and vibrant, with a long list of elements that appeal to a broad spectrum of varied tastes. Amazing history, dining and retail is quite literally at our fingertips, while some of the finest golf and beaches in the country are as little as 20 minutes away. It's noteworthy that Charleston is the home of the incredible Spoleto Festival, which Heidy Weiss of the Chicago Sun described as follows: "The combination of semi-tropical weather, sophisticated shops and restaurants and uniquely preserved historic downtown makes it unbeatable as a place to stage a three-week blow-out of opera, dance, theater, classical and world-beat music, jazz and literary, visual and historical arts."

Accommodations

Rating: 4 star. 4 diamond.
Property features: 8 floors, 440 total rooms, including 40 suites
Upgrades: Available.
Additional property features: All rooms include an executive style desk and chair, complimentary high speed internet access, complimentary daily newspaper, telephone with voice messaging, hair dryer, bathrobes, iron/ironing board, TV/VCR/DVD. Bathrooms include enhanced Italian marble and brass fixtures, and most feature double vanity sinks.
Year property was built: 1986
Year of last renovation: 2007
What was renovated: Entire property
Year of last soft good renovation: 2008
Year of last meeting space renovation: 2007

Room-related taxes: 12.5%
Industry Awards & Year:
Conde Nast Traveler Gold List - "Worlds' Best Places to Stay" 2003-2010 Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Award 2007-2009 Conde Nast Traveler Top Spa - #8 in US, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean 2009 Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards 1997-2009 Travel + Leisure Top 500 - The Greatest Hotels in the World 2003-2010 Forbes Travel Guides Four Star Award 2005-2010

Meeting & Banquet Facilities

Maximum attendees (meet & feed)
1100 Schoolroom set-up    

Floor Plan: View
Full catering services: Available.
Executive/Hospitality Suites available: Yes.
High Speed Internet available in guestrooms, meeting rooms.

Preferred meeting size & guest room usage during Peak Season: 300
Preferred meeting size & guest room usage during Off-Season: 300

Unusual or different venues & amenities: Located across the street from Charleston Place, the Riviera has more than 9,000 square feet of floor space. This alluring venue includes an amphitheater, the Sottile Ballroom and an enticing rooftop terrace. Given Charleston's historic appeal and atmosphere, a variety of off-premise venues for social events are available and range from the Old Exchange Building (ranked as one of the five most important historic buildings in the U.S. by the National Historic Register), Hibernian Hall, South Carolina Society Hall, several large museum homes and various plantations, including Drayton Hall and Boone Hall P

Meeting Equipment & Services

Dining Outlets

2 Restaurants on property. 2 Bars on property.
The Charleston Grill is a Four Star, fine dining experience serving creative and uniquely presented cuisine in a warm and intimate ambiance. Dinner is served nightly with live jazz. The Palmetto Cafe offers a garden like setting with an open-air courtyard. It features innovative American cuisine serving breakfast and lunch Lunch $20

Coffee available in Lobby. 24-hour Room service.

Offsite Options:
Several options within walking distance

F & B gratuity: 20%
Room service hours: 24 hours

Services & Facilities

Recreational Activities

Notable Golf Courses nearby: The golf experience here in Charleston surpasses the normal travel experience. We offer our customers access to nine private golf courses located only ten to thirty minutes away. They vary from flat, easy and relaxing to narrow, bumpy and nerve-wracking. We can arrange individual as well as tournament play, by tee time or shotgun start, and can offer a PGA location to boot! Notable examples are Kiawah Island, home of the 1991 Ryder Cup, and Rivertowne Country Club, a Arnold Palmer signature course destined to be one of the finest in the area. Wild Dunes, located on the beautiful Isle of Palms, is also ranked as one of the top one hundred golf courses in the world

Other activities: Shopping expeditions, carriage rides past antebellum homes, blossoming garden tours, and tennis . . . these plus many more are the alluring companion programs Charleston Place can develop for you. Other unique programs we can offer are sea kayaking through Charleston's scenic marshes and rivers, plantation and garden tours, or enjoying a sunset sail around Charleston's harbor aboard a private yacht