Charleston, SC

Welcome to the Charleston SC section of Business Travel Fun.  Charleston is where I live, and I enjoy the variety of Night Life found here.  Well, I actually live in Hanahan which is about 10 miles North of Charleston. I frequent several places in the North Charleston and Goose Creek SC area mostly, but I do occasionally go Downtown.  Downtown Charleston is a very nice place to walk and visit the many Restaurants and Bars.  The main area of Market Street is dense with Restaurants, Bars, Pubs, Grills, and a lot of Historical attractions are near by.  You can find a quiet place to have a drink while listening to soft piano music, or if you like it more upbeat, you can find Bars that offer Live Entertainment such as pop, rock, and hip hop and even Bluegrass too.  If you're like me, you go for a place where you can listen to an acoustic guitar player while sipping a local Charleston brew. But if not, I also have Reviews of Bars & Restaurants where you can play a game of Pool, Play NTN Trivia Sing Karaoke, or just listen to other Live Entertainment.

Although this page is titled Charleston, SC, it includes areas around the Charleston area.  Areas included are North Charleston, Goose Creek, Mount Pleasant and the rest of the Low Country.  In the future, I will separate these areas as the Business Travel Fun Website grows. I just added a Summerville page that includes Ladson SC. Click the Summerville link on the right to see Articles and Reviews in that area.

North Charleston & Goose Creek have a lot to offer for Night Life.  I like NTN Trivia, so I generally hang out where I can find a NTN Trivia playmaker box and quaff a few beers while I keep my brain exercised, or is it numb?  The Trivia games are addicting, and I love to play it. My home NTN Trivia Bar is North Park Grill where my NTN Trivia handle is FLHAUS.  I have more on North Park Grill in another section.

One of the most popular Bar Pub past-times you can find in abundance in North Charleston & Goose Creek has got to be Billiards.  Just about any Bar, Pub, or Grill that has more than one Billiards table offers some type of amateur Pool League or Pool Tournament.  There are even a few Bars and Pubs that are members of the American Pool-player's Association of America (APA).  As of January 2008, there are three Bars in the North Charleston area that are members of the APA Pool League.  Hanahan's on North Rhett in Hanahan, The Mill Bar on East Montague in Historic North Charleston, and North Park Grill in North Charleston.  North Park Grill is the largest sponsor of APA Pool Leagues in the area.

Another favorite Bar Entertainment phenomenon is Karaoke.  Actually there aren't too many Bars that do not have Karaoke these days.  I guess everyone wants to be a Karaoke Star and get their 15 minutes of fame.  I used to be a Karaoke DJ, and I have worked several area Bars in the past.  I also got to know several Karaoke DJs, generally called KJs, in the area.  Some are good, and some are not.  The difference can be due to several factors.  First and foremost is the number of songs.  If a Karaoke DJ doesn't have at least 8000 songs, then it isn't going to be that good.  Another factor is what the establishment will pay.  If the establishment is cheap, then even a good KJ company will not put their best system in the Bar, this of course usually means that the song list is small.  Another factor, and the one I despise the most, is a lot of KJs will not layout the money month after month to update their song list. They all say they do, but if you frequent the place week after week, you'll see that they may be adding a disk or two every quarter - maybe.  These types generally do not last long, or they find a one gig hole-in-the-wall, and that's all they do.  It's a real shame.  My experience has shown a couple of disks added to the mix per month pays off in the long run.

So if you are coming to the Charleston area, and like the Night Life, like to Play Pool, Sing Karaoke, or want Live Entertainment, the area has plenty to offer.  Please check back often as content will change. Not all Charleston, Goose Creek, and North Charleston Bars and Restaurant Reviews will show on this page, so try the All Articles link on the right for more Reviews.