**Review: Hilton Garden Inn, Summerville, South Carolina**…read more **Check-In and Arrival:** My check-in experience at the Hilton Garden Inn in Summerville, South Carolina, was exceptional, especially compared to my last five Hilton properties. The front desk personnel were welcoming and seemed genuinely happy to be on the job. I used the app to check in and select my room, so my stop at the front desk was brief, just to pick up a plastic key. The lobby itself is large and spacious, with a lively atmosphere in the bar and restaurant area. There are plenty of comfortable seating areas, perfect for getting some work done or simply relaxing. **Room and Amenities:** The hotel is quite large, standing eight stories high. My room was clean and passed the black light test with flying colors, as did the bathroom. I particularly liked the bathroom layout, which included shelves above the sink that provided useful counter space without getting wet. Typically, toiletries have to be kept on the same surface as the sink, where they are prone to getting wet, so this was a nice touch. Additionally, there is a night light in the bathroom, which is a nice touch for late-night convenience. Across from the bathroom is a closet nook, which is an uncommon but very helpful feature. It houses a closet with an ironing board, iron, hangers, and a safe on one side, and a full-sized mirror on the wall with three drawers that also double as shelves for extra storage. A notable feature is the barn door on the bathroom that slides on rails, adding a touch of modernity to the room. The room also includes a small nook with a Keurig coffee maker, a modern microwave, a lighted shelf that actually works (unlike my last Garden Inn), and a refrigerator recessed in a cabinet. Lighting in the room is plentiful. There are six different light sources from the front door to the bedroom area alone. The bedroom has four light sources: two lamps and two wall sconces. There are two lights in the kitchen nook, a light in the closet, a hallway light, and two lights in the bathroom. This provides ample lighting options, with the ability to set a lower ambient light if desired. The room also features a large chair in the corner by the window and a computer chair, which I'd rank as my second favorite in a hotel room in 2024. It's the same design as in a previous hotel but with a cloth finish, offering a comfortable and secure feel. **Dining Experience:** After a long day, I decided to dine at the hotel restaurant rather than go out. The in-room menu had lively descriptions of food choices, and I settled on the open-faced ribeye steak sandwich, served with lettuce, tomato, and onion on a sesame roll. Due to sensitive teeth, I avoid hard bread, so I was pleased to see that it was supposed to be served on a sesame roll, which is the traditional roll for a steak sandwich. However, when the food arrived, it was a closed-face sandwich on a hard ciabatta roll. The ribeye steak had been cut into chunks and was cooked well beyond the medium I had requested. The sandwich was challenging to enjoy because of the unexpected hard bread. The vegetable side was fresh and delicious, but the overall meal was disappointing. My server disappeared after delivering my food and only returned once I had finished eating. When I inquired, I was informed that the sandwich is always served this way, which left me feeling dissatisfied. **Nature Trail:** The hotel literature and online sources mention "The Hilton Nature Trail," so I decided to check it out before it got dark. Unfortunately, the trail is quite short, only extending about 100 feet into the woods before dead-ending at some dangerous debris and a drainage pond. **Nearby Amenities:** On the positive side, there are many food options nearby the hotel, offering plenty of alternatives to the in-house dining. **Final Thoughts:** Overall, my stay at the Hilton Garden Inn in Summerville was great. The hotel provided everything I needed, from a clean and comfortable room to welcoming service. However, the dining experience could use some improvement. It would be helpful if the menu items described actually made it onto the plate as expected by the customer. NOTE: I gave five stars for the hotel experience and did not include the food experience in my rating. The restaurant should be a separate entity that could be reviewed separately from the hotel. Overall the hotel is great.

From the owner: Daily Mandatory Charge includes: Destination Marketing Fee…read more Find us off I-26, within a mile of local dining and major retailers. Whirlin' Waters Adventure Waterpark is 15 minutes away, and we're 30 minutes from Charleston and Lake Moultrie. Relaxation's easy with our resort-style pool and several walking trails nearby. Cooked-to-order breakfast awaits, and our two-story conference center has meetings covered. WiFi's on us.

Place was great for our event. Very clean including the restroom. Great location and plenty of…read moreparking. Venue owners were amazing and very kind and professional. Top notch and very well recommended.

From the owner: Step into an event experience like no other. Our 1300 sq ft venue isn't just a space; it's a smart,…read moreintimate setting perfect for events of up to 80 people. What truly sets us apart is our commitment to making your planning effortless. Forget hidden fees and sourcing individual items – our all-inclusive event packages come complete with high-quality tables, chairs, and a stunning selection of rental items, providing unparalleled value and convenience you won't find elsewhere.

Had dinner here for the 1st time with my family last night, and it didn't disappoint…read more Our server was extremely attentive and friendly, as was the rest of the staff. The appetizers were very good although I didn't grasp the concept behind sweet calamari it was cooked perfectly and tender, the escargot were buttery and delicious. I had the chicken with the cognac sauce. (I know not very exciting) but I've been in the mood for a roasted piece of chicken for a little bit...and not only was the chicken expertly prepared and cooked but it tasted amazing, seasoned perfectly. The gnocchi and asparagus that accompanied it were delicious as well. It was single-handedly one of the best chicken dishes I've had. My wife had the fillet mignon with the fig demi, potato gratin and it again was completely spot on for tenderness, seasoning and flavor. It was delicious as well. My 4 year old basically demanded we get the chocolate cake for dessert and they said it was delicious. It definitely was large enough to shared with 3 or 4 people if you wanted a few tastes. The house is really exquisite inside and you can tell great care was taken in renovations. All in all it was a great dining experience and we are so glad we tried Kersey House, we will definitely be back!

Our first visit was for "Mercy at the Kersey." This is a special event every Thursday where the…read moreparticipating group sits at the bar and there is a surprise menu with 4 courses with wine pairings. You're at the mercy of the chef and whatever he feels like making that day. We had a wonderful time. Our server/bartender was wonderful and the food was so yummy! Being a surprise, it made me a little nervous, but even if it was something I would never order for myself, everything was still delicious! We stopped in another evening for a regular dinner service. Our server was great, very attentive, and the food was so good. Definitely a good experience and a little "nicer" dinner than many of the chains in Summerville. You can be casual, but the atmosphere is a step above that. It's also a beautifully done building that serves as an event venue, as well.

Kyra was great! Attentive, patient, and helpful. The…read moreatmosphere is pretty chaotic, loud, and so hot, we sat outside. I'm assuming the temperature is due to the pizza oven being exposed to the dining area. There's a bar inside. The patio has a mix of high tops and regular tables. The prices were more expensive than I expected ($60 on pasta, marg, wings). Chicken Parmesan was delicious. Chicken was seasoned well and the amount of cheese was perfect. The spaghetti was cooked as expected. Wings were pretty good. The Calabrian chili was SPICY. Overall a pleasant experience.

Happy Hour me please with pizza and wine. Woodhaven hit the spot with some delectable bites of…read moregarlic knots, truffle garlic fries and a pepperoni pizza with tiny peps to set of a great after work wine down. I am becoming more and more a wine connoisseur so Moscato chilled was perfect pairing. Hands down the service was unmatched by the bar staff being very attentive and knew we were Lady Gamecock fans so the tv was set for the game. Not loud very quant for family dinner or after work wind down with available seating outside. Definitely will be back for another round soon....

We bought a package that included a night stay, breakfast, dinner and high tea. First of all, this…read moreis a must experience for anyone. You feel like royalty and are treated with the utmost respect. The hotel - is small, intimate and beautiful. It does not feel like a hotel, rather like someone's home. The rooms are beautifully decorated and you feel like you are in a different era. our room had a fireplace, huge four poster bed and a huge bath with a jacuzzi. Overall, just stunning and an experience of a lifetime. Also, in the afternoon we strolled the grounds and they brought out bikes for us to explore the neighborhood. So relaxing! The hightea and breakfast were outstanding. They think of the little things in how they present the food, which adds so much value. We had pancakes at breakfast with pecans and I can truly say that I have never had such amazing pancakes in my life. I love breakfast food and seek it out, but to this day I have not found a comparison to the pancakes at woodlands. I may go again just for the pancakes! The restaurant - it is a five star establishment and I would give it all five stars. The food is presented beautifully, tastes divine and the portion size is perfect. My husband likes various versions of mushrooms and told the chef that. He ended up getting a dish with all the different varieties. Talk about service! I loved my deconstructed ceasar salad and halibut. The dessert was so refreshing as it was a creme brullee with passion fruit. Overall, try a package if you must or just get a night to stay. You will not be disappointed. We went for my birthday/valentine and I can say it was the best birthday of my life!

For our 3rd night on the road we stayed here: the only 5 star/5 diamond place in SC (and one of…read moreonly 3 in the country who have that distinction, 5 AAA Diamonds, and 5 Mobil Stars)! We were excited:an old mansion from the 1800's, converted to a luxury resort. Bed was disappointing, but the worst was the food! Read on: They let us order room servicez since we arrived late, but that was a JOKE!....We love our fancy dinners-but this was one of those places where the salad was 3 individual inch sized pieces of Iceberg lettuce (1"x1"), with a 'buttermilk foam' and various toppings like fricken pistachios (eww) Oh, 1 of the lil' towers fell over when the waiter wheeled the table into our room, He got all distressed and wanted to take the salad back to the kitchen to have them make another! We were like "Oh, it's OK! OMGoodness, it was crazy to think some people might get upset about that!!" We could only laugh (his Caesar salad was a handful of romaine, that was SHOVED into 2 square 'crackers' that had an open circle in them, the 2 cracker squares were about 2 inches apart....THAT was the 'Caesar salad, and it had a DROP of dressing squeezed onto the plate! Hubby was like "WTF is THIS?" and i said, "Um, thats your Caesar, hun!" Oh yeah, and it had a lil' quail egg on top too.....(barely cooked) too Fricken weird. We are not unsophisticated people, we have eaten at 4 and 5 star places many a time (and love them), but this was preposterous! Hubby had Scallops that were fishy and weirdly prepared and I tried the Duck, (I LOVE duck, but this had a gawd-awful flavor, i can't even describe it... but it was HIDEOUS. He did eat a bit of his, begrudgingly!z Oh, I haven't told you, I got SICK to my tummy! LITERALLY (like I couldn't eat anything else, even when i was starving and got them to make me a burger, by the time i got it i was so nauseous, i couldn't touch it, and I suffered all night..... What made me SICK was the dessert. I made the mistake of taking a bite out of this thing, that was supposed to have Chocolate mousse in it (my fave and the only fancy dessert i truly enjoy).....get this: THE CHOC. mousse had HUGE Salt CHUNKS in it! BIG-ASS granules. No, bigger than a granule! This was like margarita- chunky salt. IN THE MOUSSE! Blecch! and it was intentional!!! I said to the waiter, that "I realize that salt is needed in Baking, like cookies etc, it brings out the flavor, BUT I've never in my LIFE seen salt IN a CHOCOLATE delicacy! He said, "Well, sayou should know how much brighter it makes it taste! I was like "ARE YOU FOR REAL? I'm wanting to vomit from it! My yelpers, you need to know to stay away from this place, even if it is only the 3rd place in the country rated 5 AAA Diamonds, and 5 Mobil Stars. The AAA/Mobil people must be on crack. Crack is whack. YUCK! Please Keep in mind, we like fancy, nouvelle cuisine once in a while.....like a good Pheasant Sausage with a confit this, and a foam that.....BUT this food was awful! Oh, and breffie the next morning? LAUGHABLE.....More tiny food (except thankfully I had eggs Benedict, and its impossible to make the eggs smaller when they are poached. Hubby had a ''3 egg' omelette that was definitely no more than one, maybe one and a half eggs tops. AND, the ''breakfast potatoes'' that came with breakfast, were chopped so microscopically, that u could not spear them with a fork, you could not even scoop them ONTO your fork! There were a few brightly colored onions/peppers in them, BUT they were not bigger than a grain of sand. I could just picture the poor chef standing over his knives, wasting his time chopping micro goods! LOL...i mean items. I don't want to call them 'goods', lest ye think they actually were just that......'good'. btw, the saving grace for you if u end up staying here (and please let me say, with the exception of the hoity-toity waiter, the staff was very friendly and VERY customer service oriented.....I will say that, we had no complaints there!)..... but your saving grace? That they change the menu daily!!! I wish like hell I had tried something off their normal room service menu, of a fish and chips meal, which was made with COD (good God, a 5 star place can't even serve top notch HADDOCK?) Cod is a lower-echelon fish! But in retrospect, I WISH i had tried it, it might have been good. BUT can u understand my reluctance to order something as plain as fish and chips at a 5star place? We were prepared to be wowed, and we were so disappointed! Better luck to you if u dare! :) I would go for brunch if u ever have an opportunity. They can't kill brunch too much, other than the TEASPOON of micro chopped potatoes they throw on your plate! (maybe ask for extra?) The Hollandaise was spectacular though, although i had to request extra! There was only a HINT of it on my Benedict! :o(

Tanis J Events, LLC managed all of the day of details for my daughter's wedding as well as guiding…read moreus through the planning stages. I didn't want to have to worry or deal with anything other than watching my daughter and her now husband enjoy the best day of their lives. With Tanis and Chauncey at their and my side the day was perfect. Hiring a wedding coordinator may seem like a extravagance but I'm here to tell you that having them with us made the difference between enjoying those precious moments or dealing with all the details no one thinks of. Thank you Tanis and Tanis J Events for insuring their day was perfect.

I wish we could give Tanis a 100 star raiting! Tanis is full of life and energy. She is so…read morepassionate about what she does and you can see it in her work. She is very professional and she knows a lot about the wedding business. My husband :), was not too sure about hiring a full service planner but after he saw how helpful Tanis was, he was fully on board with hiring her. She is very organized and handled all contact with our vendors. She came with us to almost every vendor meeting and made sure everything went smoothly. This lady LOVES paper work and I think that is great!! She keeps track of all contracts and notes every little detail to ensure nothing is missed!! (This really helped out when we had a vendor who did't show up to our wedding) She even came to help me with my bridal shoot and that was something that was not required in the services I paid for. She did it out of the kindness of her heart. She truly is such an amazing woman and I would recommend her to anyone! She also did our draping and candy bar and they both were a hit!! She's got an awesome sense of style and she captured my gatsby theme perfectly! Thank you Tanis for making our wedding day so magical! Wouldn't have been the same with out you!!!

It has good reviews but when I called, they said they were fully booked at least three months out.read more

My stay was wonderful…read more (Except for the fact that the beautiful dinnerware appeared vintage. If so, I'm not sure if they're safe to be used for eating.) Other than that, everything was perfect.

It's not much, but the staff are wonderful! Especially, Rebecca. Plus they were very kind to our…read moredogs.

The front desk woman was so rude when I arrived. Not off to a great start. There was no parking on…read morethe first two nights. The bathrooms were disgusting, after water was running for a couple minutes it started to smell funky. Water pressure also was weak almost a light sprinkle. In addition, the cleaning crew entered my room even though my sign was on my door. Lastly, the power went out not once but twice and the doors automatically unlock so if the security chain wasn't on anyone could have entered the room. We also didn't get an email or call to explain why the power went out twice. I was scared the whole night of Thursday because of this. Overall, not a great experience and will not be staying again. I suggest you don't either.

Please improve your communication about online bookings. Not only did I get an online confirmation…read more I also received two text messages from this establishment reminding me of the appointment that day and then an a death note 30 minutes before saying you have an appointment in 30 minutes. I arrive and they told me they were four weeks out for the dress and I told them when I needed it made the appointment and told him what I needed on wine. Wasn't a problem when I booked it the problem was when I tried to go in and have a fitting done. The girl that spoke to me was rude. I immediately found a different place went had a fitting done that day. Have the dress picked up and ready for the black tie wedding we're going to.

A dress and pants to hem. $101 and had to wait a month, no problem. But then they wanted me to pay…read morein advance. I don't like to pay in advance for things because often times things come up. I was told that was their policy and I asked for my items back. I can buy a sewing machine and learn to do a simple hymn myself. Very disappointed..