My friend and I waited too long to book a room the weekend of the Cooper River Bridge Run. We decided it wouldn't be so bad because it was cheap and right beside the Outlet Mall. We ended up just having to laugh about it and try to have a sense of humor because it was one thing after another.

At check in there was one clerk and three people came to check in at once. Another girl walked out of the back room saw the crowd, said "Oh, h*ll no," and walked back into the back (she came out when the other girl was checking in the last person in line). The girl who was actually working was very nice and courteous.

The airport noise, the large groups of very young people who were very drunk, the one group who came back to the hotel at 4am and started chasing their dog around the courtyard and yelling because somebody had let it out and the powerwashing that woke us up on the second morning are all reasons I would not recommend staying here. They were literally powerwashing our door and water was pouring in because the door did not meet the threshold. We had to catch two palmetto bugs and throw them out the door and the bathroom was very dirty. We tried to call the front desk twice about the early morning noise, but nobody answered.

In addition, it did not feel very safe, so I would not recommend it for a single woman.

If you have a sense of humor, you can stay at this hotel, but otherwise skip it. The first thing you notice is the sound of airplanes directly over head because you're in the flight path. It sounds like they are landing on the hotel. Even if you can live with that, the room was not clean, there were bugs in the bathroom and the hairdryer burned up and started smoking when I turned it on. I ended up staying the whole week, but by the last day, I had lost any sense of humor about the situation.

the over night lady that checked me in was reallly nice and the lady that held my bags (early check out, and i had a late flight) but most of the other desk help wasnt very helpful

it was nice that they had security on duty at all times - they even walked me to my room at night.

the room did have terrible smell, something like dog bathroom issues all musty and then there was the large sent of vomit in the dresser when i went to put my stuff away...

bathroom made me depressed and nervous at the same time- i think someone wiped themselves on the shower curtain.

it was nice to have a micorwave and fridge along with being close to the airport though

:) good luck

This must be one of the cheapest places in the Charleston area, yet in most respects it was perfectly satisfactory and we would stay again should we visit Charleston. We saw several similar older motels closer to the downtown area that were likewise being nursed carefully along into the 21st Century but they were priced at double or more. And this location is actually not at all bad, being directly on interchanges for both I26 and I526--you can zoom down into the historic area in about ten minutes or over the rivers to East and West Suburban areas in similar time. (I had heard discouraging things about the parking downtown but here's a hot tip: two days running, we found free, fullday street parking where we would have least expected it, right down around the Battery and White Point Gardens. Left the car there all day and wandered about this wonderful old town. So our concerns about not staying right in downtown area were needless.)

Now because of this very adjacency to highways, you should certainly request a room facing the inner pool courtyard to minimize noise.Our room was clean, well-maintained and had clearly been repainted and freshened up very recently. Mattress was excellent, shower pressure like a fire hose--just the way I like it--TV large screen and good cable reception, small frig and microwave all in working order. As with most motels of this vintage, there was a persistent musty odor whenever the air conditioning was left running but at least during our stay, things were peaceful enough that we often left the door chained adjar for fresh air, something we would clearly NOT have done had any of the "drug dealers" mentioned by a previous Tripadvisor been anywhere in evidence. We felt no security concerns here.

We didn't use the pool ourselves but it looked clean and inviting and some hardier folks were out using it at this early season.

A particularly enjoyable feature here was the full breakfast buffet that is served every morning in a real dining room overlooking the pool courtyard. This costs $4.99 extra but is well worth the price and even folks not staying at the North Charleston Inn might consider dropping by for this breakfast deal. The breakfast staff were especially pleasant and accommodating and we appreciated that the buffet was kept stocked right until closing time and that even then, we weren't rushed out.

Most of the staff here were fine--a maintenance man even offered to help me carry out our luggage when we were leaving--but I felt that the front desk people could have shown a bit more warmth.

I do have one criticism to make. The North Charleston Inn needs to tighten up its billing practices. I had had to cancel a reservation here two years ago and even though I had made the cancellation directly with the hotel, I was charged for one night no show. This time round, there was a mysterious charge to my credit card made a month before our actual arrival. In both cases, management quickly and cheerfully corrected things, but this is clearly an unacceptable rate of "errors".

The North Charleston area, itself, doesn't usually make it into the tourist guides other than for its Convention Center or its major shopping malls but we did happen upon at least one noteworthy attraction, so noteworthy in fact that we went back a a second time. This is the Navy Yard area. While not as old or extensive as the famous "Truman Annex" naval quarters in Key West that all tourists there are advised to visit, this now-abandoned facility in North Charleston, dating back just over a century, is fully equal to that in Key West in beauty and interest, particularly if you are visiting in the Spring season. The truly spectacular buildings and lush landscaping are being meticulously kept up and developed under a public-private partnership, "Navy Yard at Noisette": be sure to see this.