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A real three-night weekend for six in Charleston — hour by hour, with the honest budget and who paid what. Copy it into your own trip in one tap and change anything.

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Retro illustrated collage of a Charleston bachelorette weekend: women in white toasting champagne on a pastel porch, an oyster tower and a sticker-covered suitcase
The worked example

Six girls, three nights, $857 each

Most bachelorette itineraries you find online are wish lists — twelve activities a day that no group of adults has ever actually completed. This one is the opposite: a real Charleston weekend in April for six people, in the order it happened, with the receipts. One booked anchor a day, a protected getting-ready window, one night that stays in instead of out, and expenses settled on the sidewalk before anyone's ride to the airport.

Use it as a shape, not a script. Swap Charleston for Nashville, Savannah or Palm Springs and the rhythm still works — arrival dinner, big day, split afternoon, clean exit. If you want to see how the decisions got made in the first place, the same weekend is laid out as a live trip in the sample trip, and the city itself is broken down in the Charleston girls trip guide. Doing it in Music City instead? The same weekend, rebuilt for ten people, is in the Nashville bachelorette guide.

Hour by hour

The three-night itinerary

Thursday — Arrivals

Nothing scheduled until dinner. Somebody's flight is always late.

  1. By 4:00 PM

    Check in — The Dewberry, two rooms

    Travel

    $318 a night split six ways. Walkable to King Street so nobody rents a car.

  2. 5:30 PM

    Welcome bags + porch champagne

    Downtime

    One person owns the bags: koozies, hangover kits, matching hair claws. Budget $30 a head.

  3. 7:30 PM

    Dinner at Chubby Fish

    Food

    Reserve the second it opens — 30 days ahead. Easiest way to make night one feel expensive.

  4. 10:00 PM

    Rooftop at The Watch

    Activity

    Two drinks, church-steeple views, everyone in bed by midnight on purpose.

Friday — The big day

The one day with a booked activity. Keep the rest loose.

  1. 9:30 AM

    Callie's Hot Little Biscuit

    Food

    Walk-up counter, $12 a person, no reservation needed. Cheap breakfast pays for the boat.

  2. 11:00 AM

    Rainbow Row + Battery walk, photos

    Activity

    Free, 90 minutes, and where you get the photos everyone actually posts.

  3. 1:30 PM

    Boat day — Shem Creek charter

    Activity

    Four hours, $640 deposit for the group. Bring the cooler; the charter doesn't feed you.

  4. 6:00 PM

    Shower, nap, get ready together

    Downtime

    Two hours, protected. This is the block groups skip and then get cranky.

  5. 8:00 PM

    White-dress dinner — oyster tower

    Food

    The one night with a dress code. $85 a head with wine, booked six weeks out.

  6. 11:00 PM

    Late night — one bar, not four

    Activity

    Pick a place with room to dance and stay there. Pre-book the ride home.

Saturday — Recovery + spa

Slow morning, split afternoon. Not everyone has to do the same thing.

  1. 10:30 AM

    Long brunch, no reservation

    Food

    Anywhere with outdoor tables. Two hours, coffee refills, group photo dump.

  2. 1:00 PM

    Split the afternoon

    Downtime

    Half books massages, half hits King Street shopping or Folly Beach. Both groups are happy.

  3. 5:00 PM

    Toast for the bride

    Activity

    Fifteen minutes, everyone says one line. Free, and it's the part she remembers.

  4. 7:30 PM

    Dinner in — grocery delivery + a big pasta

    Food

    $28 a head instead of $85. Two cooks, one playlist, nobody puts on shoes.

Sunday — Out clean

One shared breakfast, then settle up before anyone's Uber shows.

  1. 9:00 AM

    Coffee and pastries downstairs

    Food

    No reservation, no plan. People leave at different times and that's fine.

  2. 10:30 AM

    Settle expenses before the airport

    Downtime

    Do it in person while everyone is standing there. Ten minutes now beats three weeks of nudging.

  3. 12:00 PM

    Checkout + shared ride to CHS

    Travel

    Two cars, 25 minutes. Book them the night before, not that morning.

The honest budget

What it actually cost

Six people, three nights, flights not included. Ballpark estimates from a real April weekend — not quotes.

Line itemGroupPer person
Stay — 2 rooms, 3 nights$1,908$318
Boat charter$640$107
Dinners out (2) + brunch$1,140$190
Groceries, welcome bags, snacks$213$36
Rides + rooftop drinks$385$64
Total$4,286$857
Why it works

Four rules to steal

One booked thing a day. That's it.

Three nights, three anchors: the welcome dinner, the boat day, the white-dress dinner. Everything else is a suggestion. Over-scheduled bachelorettes are where the resentment starts.

Let the group split up once

Saturday afternoon is deliberately two options. Someone always wants a massage while someone else wants to shop, and forcing one plan makes both groups quietly annoyed.

Say the number out loud on day one

This weekend landed at $857 a person. Post the number before anyone books a flight, and put the bride's share in writing — usually the group covers her.

Protect the getting-ready block

Two hours between the day activity and dinner. It doubles as a nap for whoever needs it and it's the most fun part of the whole trip.

Questions

Bachelorette FAQ

How long should a bachelorette party be?

Three nights is the sweet spot: an arrival night with nothing scheduled, one full day with the big activity, and a slow recovery day before everyone flies out. Two nights feels rushed once you count travel; four starts costing people vacation days.

What does a bachelorette party itinerary usually cost per person?

The Charleston weekend on this page came to about $857 per person for six people, not counting flights — roughly $318 on the stay, $190 on restaurants, $107 on the boat charter, and the rest on rides, groceries and welcome bags. A US city weekend generally lands between $700 and $1,200 per person.

Who pays for the bride?

Most groups split the bride's share of the stay, dinners and the main activity between everyone else, and she covers her own flight. Decide it in the first week and write it down — it's the single most common source of bachelorette tension.

How far ahead should we book a bachelorette weekend?

Lock the dates three to four months out, book the stay right after, and reserve the popular restaurant the day its window opens — typically 30 days ahead. Boat charters and group activities go earlier than people expect in spring and fall.

How do you plan a bachelorette when everyone wants something different?

Put every option on one board and vote instead of arguing in the group chat. In A Girls Trip you shortlist dates, the stay, restaurants and activities, everyone votes, the winner locks, and each person RSVPs in, maybe or out per activity so nobody is dragged along.

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