Just wrote a long review and lost it so....bottom line here all was good Except the noise. Whether you stay on the first or third floor you will hear street noise or someone talking in normal conversational tones in the room next door. That doesn't work when someone does that from 1 to 3 am . Complaints to staff were met with a deaf ear and no compensation for lost sleep. If you want a noise free night for sleeping look elsewhere.

In the past 2 years, we have stayed in the Ansonborough Inn 6 or 7 times and every time we have experienced consistent excellence at this hotel. In every single aspect of this hotel we have encountered professionalism; comfortable and beautiful furnishings; gracious staff; excellent complimentary breakfast, evening snacks and cookies at night! My husband just returned from two nights there while attending a Charleston conference and two friends accompanied him. His fellow travelers were just as impressed as we have always been. The welcome mat is always out, the front desk clerks are superior, the ladies who handle breakfast and evening snack are prompt, courteous and the food is always excellent and plentiful, the hotel staff is second to none with spotless rooms, immediate response to requests and always friendly. Can you tell we love the Ansonborough?

We go to Charleston every spring for a nice farewell to winter. This inn is our favorite place to stay. The rooms are huge and full of character. No cookie cutter decor here. We have never been bothered by noise. The breakfast has always been very well done when we were there. The location is perfect and easily within walking distance from where you will want to go. We've stayed in other inns and B&B's in Charleston but always come back to Ansonborough.

We stayed at the Ansonborough Inn the week between Christmas and New Years. Upon arrival, they unexpectedly switched our room to something other than what we reserved. It was larger, which was nice, but it was on the ground floor at street level. We discovered that despite the very sophisticated architecture and room furnishings in the hotel, there is very little sound insulation from the outside road noise. To make it worse, there is a loading dock for a very busy grocery store directly across the street where they begin unloading at approx. 5:30 am. The beep beep beep and shouting continued well into the morning, almost to checkout. Needless to say, we did not get enough sleep! I recommend that if you stay here, ask for a room on the upper floors that faces either east or south, but not north.
The breakfast was so so. The hotel itself is really spectacular and is conveniently located, but one sort of gets the impression that it is operated more like a one of the big hotel chains than an inn.