Short Stay Will Lead To Longer Visits
“Both Savannah and Charleston really impressed us,” Jim Kocot said with sincerity. “We wish we had spent more time in both and less in Florida.”
BY MEREDITH ARMSTRONG T
his past winter, Boca Raton, Florida, was the warm- weather destination for Jim and Dale Kocot, a pleasant
break from their home in Belfast, Maine. Tey stopped in Savannah on the way down and in Charleston on the way back north. “We most certainly will return,” he
said. “We are thinking we’ll go to Savan- nah and have our friends in Florida meet us there.” Kocot explained that in Savannah, he and his wife stayed at the Olde Harbour Inn on the river. He said their room was enormous and had a kitchen, which would have come in handy if they had stayed lon- ger. Tey got a firsthand look at the Historic District on their Old Town Trolley tour. He pointed out that they chose not to jump on and off at different attractions but enjoyed the tour nevertheless. “Our first guide was a real comedian, a true showman,” Kocot said. “Te second one came aboard and said, ‘Don’t expect me to be as entertaining as he was,’ but he did im- part a lot of knowledge about Savannah.” Kocot said he and his wife were im-
Southern charm is that everyone offers suggestions and ideas: “Don’t miss this” and “Don’t miss that.” Te Kocots, who spent just two nights
in Savannah, enjoyed the Lowcountry crab cakes at Rocks on the River in the Bohemian Hotel and considered return- ing there for another meal. Instead, they diversified, choosing the Chart House and its river views. Dinner was on Vaca- tion Station.
“Te company had a sales outlet
down the stairs from our inn,” Kocot ex- plained. “Te young man there promised
Dale and Jim Kocot enjoyed their visit.
he said. “Dale and I are both retired, and we love to travel. And we liked the options Vacation Station offers, such as Viking Cruises. We took a Viking cruise up the Yangtze River in China.” He said they already have booked a
cruise with Vacation Station, a trip down the Danube that starts in Budapest, glides through Austria and Ger- many and ends in Amsterdam.” Back in the United States, Dale
and Jim Kocot feel they made a good choice of hotels in Charles- ton, staying at Te Mills House. “We were able to walk down to
The Olde Harbour Inn in Savannah.
pressed with the Savannah College of Art and Design and surprised that a city in the deep South would be so artsy. “We would not have thought that a city the size of Savannah would support such a large arts complex,” he said, add- ing that another bright side of Savannah’s
that the presentation would only take 45 minutes and that he would give us $50 off meals and two passes for the orange and green trolley, which would help ori- ent us to the city.” Te Vacation Station representative explained that if the Kocots had booked last year’s trip to Antarctica through the club, they would have received 20 percent of their costs back. “Tat would have been substantial,”
the Battery, and it was just a block from the Gibbes Museum of Art,” he said. “We enjoyed every restau- rant we went to.” Among their favorite places to
eat in Charleston are the Barbados Room at the Mills House, with its Southern am- bience; 82 Queen, where they had a firefly -tea-infused vodka; and Charleston Grill. “It was all good, and we hope to
return soon to these two wondrous cities of the old South,” he commented.
For more information, contact Vaca- tion Station at (800) 692-1587 or visit
www.CharlestonTravelAgency.com.
www.CharlestonVacationGuide.com |
www.ILoveCharleston.com |
www.CruisesLeavingCharleston.com
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