History isnt always pretty but we have to accept and remember so some things are never repeated... Thanks for preserving history.

Steep in history, this plantation is well worth checking out. Youll learn a lot on the tour, our guide Bambi (an ex Marine) was very knowledgeable and insightful.

I’m confused as to how visiting a plantation could be exciting for some people? That’s sickening. This is a place where human beings suffered...

This plantation is fascinating. The owners live on the property and allow for tours in the home. The tea room has food that is top notch and the Gin Gin soup is out of this world amazing!! Ms. Vera comes and teaches sweet grass basket weaving and is extremely interesting. Spend the day there, you wont want to leave. Love this place!!!! Definite 5 star PLUS!!

Beautiful plantation home with an interesting your about the home and the families that live and have lived there.A real miss is the historic context on plantations and slavery. I would have been really interested in learning more about the live of the slaves, and the (horrible?) lives they must have had. Especially because they are the ones responsible for all of the wealth of their owners. It just feels unjust to not give them the credit they deserve, and a shame not to learn from the past.I can recommend the tea room for lunch or tea! Be sure to make a reservation.

They gave us a free private look and tour last summer. Super nice people also said my brother could fish on the river if he wanted.

Had a great time touring this historic property. Our docent was amazing and we ate in the restaurant which was outstanding.

Beautiful tea room on the river. Food is beautifully presented. Staff is very accommodating. Its a family favorite. Have also gone with groups of ladies. Relaxing and a treat.

What a great place to visit, beautiful grounds, amazing house, great staff. Definitely going back to eat at the restaurant.

Really nice visit. Very friendly people

Beautiful Plantation with restaurant on site serving excellent cuisine!

Its not often that you can find pre civil war plantations like this. Most were looted and burned after the war. This is a wonderful piece of history. There is a retired couple living in the home but they make it available to tours. A very neat tour describing how the rice fields came to be the local cash crop after the indigo crop demand disappeared once the British stopped buying it to dye their blue navy uniforms. The cafe there was delicious! Had some gumbo on top of Carolina Gold Rice, the same kind of rice that was grown on this plantation a century ago.

It is a great historical place love it

Our guide, Bambi, was delightful. Entertaining and very informative. You could tell she enjoyed her history. Had our lunch in their tea room. Lovely setting and good food.

I give this a 4. It was a pretty location, right on the river, and a great walking place. However, the tea room, while quaint, was more for girls than guys. I didnt see anything special, and my wife liked it. It was expensive. Be warned, this is not a cheap place. The tea was good, but you can buy it at the Charleston Tea Plantation.The house tour was good, it some facts were wrong. A lot of it was opinion and as a South Carolinian didnt quite like the opinion. Such as, nobody likes magnolia trees cause the leaves are slippery and the blooms are all at the top? Gotta say, I grew up getting the blooms and putting them out for Easter, as did many other Carolinians I know.Lastly, this is someones residence. So we saw phone cords and stuff out. It felt like we were invading somebodys privacy. Kinda felt wierd.All on all, a fine place to visit once. I wouldnt make the trek for a second time.

My husband and I absolutely loved our day trip to Hopsewee! The plantation is beautiful and the tour really gives you an idea of what the house would have been like during the Civil War era. The inside and outside of the home is breathtaking. The original slave quarters are also really cool to checkout.The plantation falls short of 5 stars because we felt things could have been a bit more organized. There was some difficulty getting the video to play at the beginning of the tour. It also took a few minutes for someone to sell us tickets once we walked into the shop.

Try a variety of teas in the tea room! Make reservations for lunch & take the tour.

Very nice little hidden gem!

The real deal rice plantation. The restaurant there was also fabulous. They do a full southern tea for only 20 dollars too. Very informative tour. Lovely grounds.

Wow so cool definitely a place to stop.

Disappointing. For $20 i took the house tour. I know more about the guide than the families that lived there. A tourist trap in my opinion. I would recommend going down the road to Hamilton Plantation...less developed with a better presentation. But if old furniture is your interest this will be of interest.

Totally a great experience for families and visitors. The gentleman who owns the property has gone all out for keeping the plantation house authentic. The guide, an older lady, was excellent. The eating facility is well worth your visit.

I had a lovely tea at Hopsewee Plantation -- some of the best southern food Ive eaten, and the hospitality of the owners and staff was delightful. Its a beautiful spot on the river, especially the magnificent trees, and the history of the place is of national significance.

Very interesting. I definitely learned the difference in lifestyles between rice planters and cotton planters. The house was not as big as I thought that it would be! The on-site restaurant serves a nice selection and everyone was happy with their meal.

A must see. This picturesque and historical rice plantation has the original home to tour, although the home is being lived in by the current owners. Artifacts are original. Bambi gave a fasinating history of the home and property. Beautiful grounds to walk/hike/picnic. Better yet, have lunch at the wonderful on-site tea room. Delicious menu items from which to choose. Call ahead for hours, as they have been known to host weddings.

Charming historical place. The staff was so gracious. Go have a lunch and tea for a relaxing day. .

I never knew there were rice plantations in SC. This was a lovely afternoon of a bit of history told to us by a friendly guide, a location on the river, and a tearoom with very tasty food. Had fun. Worth the trip... Yes you need tickets and can acquire them online. Loved it.

A group of us had lunch in the tea room. They had a very nice selection of Carolina specialties. I found the prices to be extremely affordable the quality of the food was excellent. Not one person in the group felt that they didnt get their moneys worth or were dissatisfied with their selection. I highly recommend it as a place for couples or families with teens and groups that enjoy a casual tea room atmosphere.

Wonderful history, great tour guide, delicious food!

Very interesting place to spend a few hours. We watched a total eclipse from this location. There are period buildings to tour and nice shady grounds.

A beautiful setting in a well preserved house. However, Bambi seemed to be having a bad day. We learned much more about her fatigue and her extensive reading than the history of the site. Very little mention of slavery and slave conditions. I left wanting more.

Enjoyed our tour of Hopsewee. Beautiful home and grounds. Couldnt help but notice substandard wiring in the basement. Nowhere near standard code. It would be a shame to lose this landmark because of poor wiring. Hope you look into it and fix this problem.

Excellent food. Always have to order the Gin Gin soup!

Very nice staff and owners. One of our group left their credit card behind. Staff was very friendly and helpful in getting that back to her. Amazing construction on the house that hasnt been structurally altered. Nice lunch at the Tea room before the tour is worth it.

What an education this was!! The Thomas Lynch family was home here and his wife, Elizabeth, was a lady who was interesting. Thanks for the information and the extraordinary lunch in the Tea Room.

We had an amazing time. Spent the whole day. Toured, lunched and basket making. ;)

Our tour guide, Bambi is very knowledgeable as well as entertaining.Our server in the teahouse was very accommodating and sweet.

Too short for my liking. Tea room was exquisite. Owner was very sweet.

A great place to visit as you will be pleased!!!

Over booked our 12:00 house tour but did split the group so worked out fine. Very crowded today. The tour guide (Bambi) was very informative and fun to be around. Would give 5 stars for her. The reason for the four stars was the disorganized start

The house was very in very nice shape! The grounds were very well maintained and the staff was very knowledgeable! Its $20 dollars to get in and worth it in my opinion.

A national treasure! Tour the plantation home of Thomas Lynch, signer of the Declaration for SC. Gullah tour and basket weaving class also available. Low country lunch and high tea served in the River Oaks Tearoom is some of the finest in the low country. For a bit of history and fine food I highly recommend a visit to Hopsewee Plantation. Tues-Sat, February through November.

A wonderful experience. Service was fantastic and the Tomato Pie was the best. Will definitely return.

Great place great food great service nice staff

Lovely place to see and dine.

Love the plantation and the history. Thank u from Missouri. God bless

Nice atmosphere. Staff attentive.Good good.

Such a wonderful place to visit! Excellent tour of the house. Plan to eat on site, the food is fantastic!

Did the tour today it was informative, would have liked to hear about the slaves and how the plantation operated. We had lunch reservations for 12:30 but because of staff shortage and others without reservations we were not seated until 1:00. Left about 1:15 never having been acknowledged by a server or even receiving water. The menu looked wonderful sad we never got to taste anything.

I arrived early for my 12:30 reservation time. The place was packed with women on a bus tour and the staff was clearly overwhelmed and underprepared. Even though I was there well before my reservation time, I was made to stand in a line for 45 minutes before being seated. This wasn’t easy because I’m disabled and didn’t have my walker with me, as I assumed I’d be seated at the time the restaurant told me to be there. After those 45 minutes, I said to the greeter, “I’m getting a very strong feeling that you don’t want me here.” She just stared at me, not replying! So I guess I was right. A single person can be an annoyance to a restaurant staff, one customer taking up a whole table. When the greeter finally got around to seating me (after taking several groups before me who had arrived after I did), she said, “We have a party coming in a half hour who will need your table, so we hope you’ll be finished by then.” I couldn’t believe my ears! This was a bad joke! She’d seated me 45 minutes after my reservation time and now she was rushing me! I decided to stay, anyway, asking her to give me a different table than the one reserved for the party coming in a half hour. I dont know why she didnt think of that solution herself, as she was able to comply with my request. Once seated, I waited and waited for a server to approach. When she finally did, she was abrupt and even rude. She, too, made me feel like an imposition. She took my order and brought my pot of tea fairly quickly, but a FULL HOUR went by and she never brought my food. At that point, of course, I’d finished the tea and just had to decide how much longer I’d be willing to wait for the food. I finally realized my patience was gone. I got up and walked out without paying for the tea. I think this crazy place owed me those two cups of tea for what they’d put me through. I don’t think anyone on the staff even noticed that I’d left.

This was one of my familys favorite experiences while visiting Myrtle Beach. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and quite fascinating. She was also African American and it was really great to hear about the plantations history through her eyes The property is well-maintained, as the owners live there. We enjoyed a beautiful lunch in their Tea Room and tried many southern delicacies for the first time. My husband is hooked on collard greens now. It was a quintessentially southern experience. We loved it!

Wonderful experience and beautiful plantation. Our tour guide Janice was very friendly and knowledgeable. Would come back here if we got the chance.

Really looked forward to our visit here. Came with a group of 15. Made reservations weeks in advance. Pre-ordered lunches off the menu ahead of time.The tour was okay. Tour guide Bambi was entertaining and informative. Worth $20? No. Our lunch reservation was 12:30 but at 12:20 we were told a bus had shown up 2 hours early and they were being seated ahead of us. We waited until 1:30 to be seated, then waited for drinks and some of us another hour for food. I got the sampler. I give it a try and/10.As we were eating, the staff were trying to get us to check out - even though most had pre-ordered dessert. The waitress who brought out desserts literally tossed them onto the table. Wow!I brought a friend from out of town and she got the worst of the day. First, they tried to say they didnt have her order. They tried to give her something else. Shes a diabetic and by this time her blood sugar was dangerously low. They finally brought her a cup of soup. When she was finally brought her order - shrimp and grits - it wasnt really shrimp and grits! Ive lived in the south forever and this was some concoction they threw together in the kitchen.Im so disappointed and embarrassed! Ill never be back. And Ill share my experience with my friends who were awaiting my review before making arrangements to visit themselves. Beautiful setting. Food was okay but nothing to write home about. Service was bad ️ If I could give it 0 stars I would. Quite frankly, we have too many wonderful historic places with friendly, informative volunteers and staff, and delicious food - to waste your time here just isnt worth it.

Great place to tour.

A very good stop. The owners have opened their home which is well preserved and has links to 2 of America’s Founding Fathers from South Carolina. The tour guide was informative and helped “picture” the Rice plantation era in the lowcountry. Those with mobility issues will have trouble with the stairs.

Nice staff, lovely and interesting place .

So sorry, quite disappointed. A group tour prevented us from going on a tour of the grand home.We were not allowed to view on our own.Made a one plus hour trip. Poo.

I loved the tour & the experience. Its worth visiting & the food was great.

The grounds and house were very interesting, 270 years old almost all original. Had some problems with the hostess. We had called ahead to make sure we could go on the tour and were told it was full when we got there. After we got there we made reservations for the tea room. The hostess acted as if she was doing us a favor and didnt have the resources to seat us. There were plenty of tables that just needed to be cleaned. Karen, a waitress, tried to seat us several times but the hostess kept stopping her. Karen was very helpful and kind.

Pretty space with traditional home, but disappointed in the information provided in the tour and by the superfluous video that we watched. Glossed over key elements of history of the plantation and downplayed / ignored the role of slavery, and focused on design details of the home and trying to push customers to go to the tea room instead.

The Gullah tours was awesome the guide was super knowledgeable.

Miss Jean was so knowledgeable and entertaining.

It was a great experience and our tour guide Bambi was awesome. She knew all the history and about everything and we enjoyed every minute . Also last thing thank you Bambi for your service in the Marines.

Great family destination

Nicely decorated restaurant, food is very good but a little pricey.Very scenic area.

Ive tours many historic homes, am a docent myself, but I am leaving with a wealth of knowledge about rice plantations and levees. Docent Jean has well-researched her topic. Excellent tour guide, well-worth the admission.

We went for a ladies tea. While the tea was good the service was somewhat lacking and it took awhile for us to get any attention from our server. I will say I believe most of the staff was new and it was a busy afternoon as such service improved later in the afternoon. The location is lovely but easy to miss and we did not feel rushed at all. Lovely little spot.

Small house but tour gave lots of history about the Declaration of Independence signer. Restaurant food was great. Fills up fast reservations recommend.

Nice people and good food. Great wedding venue.

What a great tour, I do think that an hour isnt long enough. There is history here from manu points in time. Sure it was a plantion back before the Civil War, but there is WWII history on display here as well. The house was build in a special location and and by skilled craftsmen. If you are in the trades, dont miss the basement.Do plan on lunch, dessert or both while here. The food served in the Tea Room is an excellent bonus to this history trip.

Interesting historical site... mosquitoes everywhere, they have repellent available.

Awesome plantation and tea room

The tour was okay(the tour guide was running behind, so we waited 20 minutes for her to start our tour), although we would have liked more information on the slaves that worked on the plantation and not just the white people whove owned it. We went to the tea room after the tour for a bite to eat and once seated, we waited 15 minutes before anyone acknowledged our existence. I ordered cucumber sandwiches and never received them. I would suggest finding a different plantation to tour.

Excellent food fun atmosphere

Great site! The owners live on the plantation and share their beautiful home with grace and charm. The Tea House is adorable and the food delicious, Raejean is a great cook and the selection of teas unparalleled. Xenobias Gullah tour and discussion is enlightening and insightful. The best plantation tour in the area hands down!!!

Very cool home and plantation from 1740. House has been modernized with plumbing, electricity and natural gas but the home itself is from the era. Also a lot of cool artifacts therin.

Very nice tour. Very informative about the Plantation.

The teahouse was excellent. We loved the minted lemonade! The manor house has original architecture and woodwork, though the furniture dates from later eras. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and entertaining, able to answer many questions. The video presentations in one of the slave cabins are worth watching, before or after your tour.

My wife and visited Hopsewee Plantation and took the tour last Thursday and it was wonderful. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and it was interesting to learn that the hope has been the family home of only five families since 1740 and all interior walls are the same. No restoration, just preservation. We would recommend it to all.We also had lunch in the Tea Room and it was exquisite.

Very enjoyable and educational!

We were given a gift certificate from my children so we felt compelled to visit this place. We are so glad we did. A wonderful tour, a gorgeous place and a good opportunity to learn about a time that ended abruptly during the Civit War. We had a very good tour leader. I will go back to this place and do some painting along the river. A nice place to hang out.

Historical rice plantation. Lovely and informative tour. Go.

One of the highlights of our trip to South Carolina! We stopped here while driving from Myrtle Beach to Charleston. I cannot say enough about how wonderful the visit was. We were hungry for lunch and were pleasantly surprised to find a tea room that served tea and lunch. Food was good. We then took a tour which is given by a lady that has known the property all her life, lived there from age 13 to 19. This is well worth the visit, the property is beautiful and the owners are awesome.

Very interesting and historical

Great old plantation to visit.

Great historical aspect

The place to visit if you want to know about history

Found the plantation on line while looking for places along 17 in South Carolina to tour. We happened to be traveling on a Thursday and got to take the basket weaving class as well a tour and lunch. It was all a great experience.

It was a very informative tour, despite the initial issue with the DVD player not working for the pre-tour. The staff seems to do their best to make you feel comfortable by providing ample bug spray, for example. I found the tour itself well guided, although we would have preferred someone who had not moved to the area 5 months ago. There has to be a local who could assist with their history. The gift shop also was not well stocked with items that would really help tell the Hopsewee story. Perhaps sell a long version of the DVD of Hopsewee, a few old framed pictures of the plantation. The gift shop has potential.

I actually did my homework before choosing Hopsewee as our plantation stop in South Carolina. It was a very good tour and exactly what I expected of a 1700s plantation.I read other reviews about not getting much information about the slaves. I guess Im a proponent of asking questions. We asked about why the house was spared Shermans burning spree and that led to a great conversation about the slaves on the property, the other plantations Lynch owned. The tour guide had a wealth of information and was very willing to talk about any topic that was brought up by those on the tour.Come armed with questions and you wont be disappointed.

Very interesting plantation to visit. The tour guide described life in the time period.

Great History

Expected to see plants and trees but saw an old palatial house and some history of the plantation instead

Very out of the way, but worth the drive. I loved the high tea.If youre going for the tour, take DEET: the mosquitos are aggressive

Beautiful, good food

We started our visit with a walk through of the plantation which we enjoyed the history of the plantation so we thought we would top off our visit with a nice meal at the plantation for a complete experience and we were rewarded with delicious meal and great service. We would highly recommend to anyone coming this way to stop by the Hopsewee Plantation and enjoy an afternoon in a slower time.

A definite. Everything was top notch and a must see. Our Tour Guide was a previous resident and extremely knowledgeable. Do not miss out on this wonderful experience. Also, stay and enjoy lunch., its the best!!!!!!!

Very nice original plantation house that is still lived in. The tour is short but informative. There are also two extanct original slave houses close to the main house. The property is located on the Santee river.

Loved the history behind this plantation. Food at the tea room was excellent

Well preserved home. Excellent tour guide with high knowledge of the local history. Better visit than anticipated!