Boone Hall Plantation All-Access Admission Ticket

Boone Hall was a great experience. Very informative we recommend each and every tour. The only one I feel like is skippable would be the stable. Wheelchair accessible to most events except for the mansion. All the tour guys were very pleasant very nice and very informative. I also highly recommend the ice cream especially the praline. We went with an infant and they were very accommodating, I would recommend to bring a toy or some sort of entertainment since they do tend to get bored easily but these tours are Max 35 minutes some even shorter than that. We also went during the rainy season so make sure you bring something for your infant to stay dry and yourselves.

Farm tour and the history of the plantation. Also got to pet the horses. Overall a great experience. The farm has a lot of produce and the cafe is cute and quaint

Disappointed in how commercialized the plantation felt. The wagon tour of the grounds talked at length about the haunted Halloween activities on the plantation. I believe there were three weddings being set up during the time we were there. Wedding guests and bridal parties were arriving all afternoon. During a very moving Gullah presentation, a rental truck was backing up just yards from us. The loud beeping from the truck backing up was very distracting and caused us to miss part of the presentation. I guess they were there to set up tables and chairs behind the slave dwellings for a wedding reception. It felt rude and disrespectful to have the truck coming through during the presentation. Perhaps the history of the slaves and their life stories should be a separate entity from the rest of the compound. The slave dwellings should provide more personal history of the people. We heard up to 15 people lived in each tiny cabin. They could put 15 mannequins on display in one of the cabins to show a visual of living arrangements. Because from looking inside the cabin, it was difficult to imagine 15 people being able to sleep in there. Six, at the most? Where were the slaves buried when they died? On the grounds? If so, this area should be marked as such, and shouldn’t be the site of the weddings, fall festivals and hayrides. Not sure why a plantation would be a choice for a wedding, but it seems very popular, as we heard there are 150 weddings there a year. The focal point of the plantation should be all about the slaves. Not about the owners and their big house, or the gardens, or the gift shop, or the multiple areas on the grounds for a wedding. These reviews should be about what you learned from the plantation about the slaves. They were kidnapped and forced to endure years of terrible treatment. We should at least acknowledge this and leave the plantation with an understanding of what life might have been like for them living there. The most moving moment of the 5 hours I spent there, was when the Gullah presenter explained the meaning of the song “Kumbaya.” It was very emotional to hear the presenter singing the song. Luckily the rental truck wasn’t backing up at that particular moment, or I would have missed a moment I will never forget.