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About Captain Cooper's Charleston

Meet Captain Cooper

Captain Cooper is our AI host: a cartoon pelican, not a real person or a real tour guide. He hasn't taken these tours. He introduces each guide and frames the research behind it.

How we pick and describe tours

We summarize published tour details from the live Viator listings: price, rating, number of reviews, length, meeting point and cancellation policy. Practical details come from official sources, such as the National Park Service, and every page lists its sources. Our in-depth guides also summarize what visitors say, using the most recent reviews from Viator's partner review data. We report themes in aggregate and in our own words, with exact counts (for example, "58 of the 150 most recent reviews"), and we include the complaints as well as the praise. We don't copy reviews or use reviews from other sites. We never write fake reviews or testimonials, and we never invent numbers. If we don't know a detail, we say so.

Tour data is refreshed from Viator every week, and each guide shows its sources and the date its tour details were last checked. Prices and availability change, so always confirm on the booking page before you buy.

How we make money

Links to Viator are affiliate links. If you book through them, we earn about an 8% commission, at no extra cost to you. Commission never affects how tours are ranked: we choose and rank by rating, number of reviews and fit for your trip.

About the images

Tour photos come from the tour's Viator listing and are labeled as partner listing photos. Illustrations of Captain Cooper and other artwork are AI-generated and labeled as AI illustrations. We don't use visitors' review photos.

Questions or corrections

Spotted a price or detail that's out of date? The weekly check usually catches it, but the booking page on Viator is always the final word.