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Francis Marion Hotel

Charleston, South Carolina. Looked at for its owner on 18 October 2026, the way a guest and an AI assistant would.

Francis Marion Hotel
Francis Marion Hotel's own picture, shown from francismarionhotel.com
Revenue you could be losing
$397 to $744 a month
For each room you have
Because of
  • Your prices, and the commission booking sites take
  • Your AI score, 1 of 5
  • How your competitors price, day by day
And it doesn't end there.
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Your website health
56 out of 100
18 things to fix
Your AI score
1 of 5
AI answers about Charleston that recommend you
Google reviews
4.3 out of 5
Below your competitors, 4.4 on average
Your price vs nearby hotels
Not compared
Your overall score

You rank 5th of the 8 hotels we read in Charleston

42out of 100
The hotels we read in Charleston, by overall score
  1. 1stThe Palmetto Hotel, Charleston58
  2. 2ndThe Ryder Hotel52
  3. 3rdSonesta ES Suites Charleston51
  4. 4thHotel Richemont43
  5. 5thFrancis Marion Hotel (you)42
  6. 6thHarbourView Inn35
  7. 7thCharleston Harbor Resort & Marina34
  8. 8thHawthorn Suites20
Why you rank 5th
  • Booking direct6 of 25
    Google shows booking sites' prices for you, but not your website's
  • AI assistants4 of 20
    AI recommends you in 1 of 5 answers about Charleston
  • Google Maps15 of 20
    Rated 4.3 from 2,537 reviews, fourth for “hotels in Charleston”
  • Your website11 of 20
    Scores 56 out of 100, with no button to book on its home page
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Pricing: your price against your competitors

Your price against your competitors

Each hotel's lowest price on Google Hotels for the night of 30 October 2026. Prices move every day, and the hotels near you change theirs for busy nights first. With OneHorizyn you follow these prices for the nights ahead, and know when to raise yours and when to hold it.

  • Francis Marion Hotel (you)$217
  • The Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel$273
  • Mills House Charleston, Curio Collection by Hilton$425
  • The Charleston Place$553
Competition

How you compare with 5 competitors in Charleston

AI recommends The Charleston Place in 3 of 5 answers, and you in 1; The Charleston Place comes first on Google Maps, and you fourth; they're rated 4.4 on Google on average, and you 4.3. These are the hotels of your kind within a few kilometres of you, the ones a guest choosing where to stay in Charleston weighs you against.

HotelAI recommends itGoogle Maps ratingOn Maps for “hotels in Charleston”Lowest price on Google HotelsFrom you
Francis Marion Hotel (you)1 of 54.3 from 2,5374th$217
Mills House Charleston, Curio Collection by Hilton1 of 54.3 from 2,6607th$4251 km
The Charleston Place3 of 54.7 from 2,5121st$5530.7 km
The Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel0 of 54.5 from 2,2952nd$2731.2 km
Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Historic District1 of 53.6 from 1,7526thNot shown0.2 km
HarbourView Inn0 of 54.8 from 5845thNot shown1.3 km

Read on 18 October 2026. With OneHorizyn you follow these hotels every week: their prices on every booking site, their reviews and what AI assistants say about them.

Google Maps

You come fourth on Google Maps for “hotels in Charleston”

Most guests who search the map choose from the first ten hotels it shows. You're rated 4.3 from 2,537 reviews. The Charleston Place (first) and The Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel (second) come before you.

What moves you up the map
  • Answer every review, the poor ones first and within a day
  • Ask happy guests for a review as they check out
  • Add new photos of your rooms every month
  • Keep your phone number, website and hours right on your listing

With OneHorizyn you see your place on the map and your reviews against your competitors', every week.

Where you and your competitors come for “hotels in Charleston”
  1. 1stThe Charleston Place4.7 from 2,512
  2. 2ndThe Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel4.5 from 2,295
  3. 4thFrancis Marion Hotel (you)4.3 from 2,537
  4. 5thHarbourView Inn4.8 from 584
  5. 6thEmbassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Historic District3.6 from 1,752
  6. 7thMills House Charleston, Curio Collection by Hilton4.3 from 2,660

The bars are each hotel's number of Google reviews.

What AI tells guests

AI recommends you in 1 of 5 answers about Charleston

More and more guests ask an AI assistant where to stay before they search, and book from the shortlist it gives them. We asked one, Claude, the five questions guests ask most, on 18 October 2026, letting it search the web as it answered.

  • “Where should I stay in Charleston? Name the best hotels.”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Belmond Charleston Place
    2. 2. French Quarter Inn
    3. 3. Hotel Bennett
    4. 4. The Spectator Hotel
    5. 5. Market Pavilion Hotel
  • “What are the best luxury hotels in Charleston?”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Belmond Charleston Place
    2. 2. Hotel Bennett
    3. 3. Planters Inn
    4. 4. French Quarter Inn
    5. 5. Market Pavilion Hotel
    6. 6. Grand Bohemian Hotel Charleston
    7. 7. The Spectator Hotel
  • “What are the best hotels in Charleston for a family holiday?”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Embassy Suites Historic Charleston
    2. 2. Belmond Charleston Place
    3. 3. Hotel Bennett
    4. 4. The Mills House
    5. 5. Hampton Inn Charleston Historic District
    6. 6. The Beach Club at Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina
    7. 7. John Rutledge House Inn
  • “What are the best hotels in Charleston for couples?”
    You're not named
    1. 1. Planters Inn
    2. 2. French Quarter Inn
    3. 3. John Rutledge House Inn
    4. 4. Andrew Pinckney Inn
  • “What are good value hotels in Charleston?”
    You're 2nd of 5

    “a 1924 landmark on Marion Square, often the cheapest proper downtown hotel.”

    1. 1. Indigo Inn
    2. 2. Francis Marion Hotel
    3. 3. Hampton Inn Charleston Historic District
    4. 4. Meeting Street Inn
    5. 5. Courtyard by Marriott Charleston Historic District
Your website

Your website's health is 56 out of 100

We read 6 pages of francismarionhotel.com on 18 October 2026, the way Google and AI assistants do, and found 18 things to fix. These cost you the most guests:

  1. 1
    Your home page doesn't say whose it is

    Google and AI assistants read a page's title and top line to know what it is about.

    What to do: Put your hotel's name and town in your home page's title and as its first heading.

  2. 2
    Google writes its own line about your hotel

    Your pages give Google no summary to show under your name, so it picks any sentence it finds.

    What to do: Write two sentences about your hotel for each main page: what it is, where, and why guests love it.

  3. 3
    Your website is heavy on a phone

    Most guests look on their phone, often on mobile data, and leave a page that's slow to open.

    What to do: Ask whoever looks after your website to compress your photos and files.

  • No button to book on your home page, so a guest who wants to book direct has to hunt for one
  • No WhatsApp link, where most guests in India ask first
  • No phone number a guest can tap to call
  • AI assistants can read your website
What to do this week

Three things to do this week

Each one comes from what we found above, and each wins back guests who book you direct.

  1. 1
    Show your own price on Google

    Google lists the booking sites' prices for your room but not your website's, so a guest who finds you there can only book through them.

    How: Ask your booking engine to connect you to Google's free booking links. Most do it at no cost, and your price then shows beside theirs.

  2. 2
    Give AI assistants a reason to recommend you

    Asked about where to stay, family holidays and couples' stays in Charleston, AI recommended Belmond Charleston Place and French Quarter Inn and others, not you.

    How: Add a page to your website for each kind of guest, with your rooms, prices and what's nearby. AI assistants recommend the hotels whose pages answer the guest's question.

  3. 3
    Your home page doesn't say whose it is

    Google and AI assistants read a page's title and top line to know what it is about.

    How: Put your hotel's name and town in your home page's title and as its first heading.

With OneHorizyn you see every week whether each one worked, in guests and in rupees.

What a full reading adds

We've already done 4 of the 6 readings your first look is built from

Everything above came from what anyone can see: Google, Google Hotels, Google Maps, an AI assistant and your own website. Your hotel's own reading fills in the rest and turns each finding into a figure you can act on.

The readings your first look is built from
  • Your price on booking sites29 sites for one night
  • Google and Google Mapsrated 4.3 from 2,537 reviews
  • Your website6 pages read, health 56 out of 100
  • What AI assistants say5 questions about Charleston
  • Your reviews, week by weekonly on your own hotel's reading
  • Your price every night aheadonly on your own hotel's reading

Your own reading takes about half an hour, and nothing has to be connected to your systems.

What this page doesn't cover at all
The guests who never come through a booking site

There is no commission on any of these, and this page says nothing about them. We haven't looked at any of them for you.

  • Weddings and events
  • Conferences and company travel
  • Travel agents and tour operators
  • Events that publish a list of hotels
  • The nights your town fills up
  • What your competitors charge, nightly
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  • Weddings and events

    The planners and families booking weddings in Charleston, who fill your rooms for three nights at a time and never touch a booking site.

  • Conferences and company travel

    The companies running meetings and incentive trips near you, and the firms whose staff already stay in Charleston every week.

  • Travel agents and tour operators

    The agents and operators selling Charleston to guests abroad, who send the same rooms again and again once you're on their list.

  • Events that publish a list of hotels

    Festivals, matches and conferences in and around Charleston that name hotels to stay at. Being on that list costs nothing, and most hotels never ask.

  • The nights your town fills up

    Which dates Charleston runs out of rooms months ahead, so you price them before your competitors do, rather than after.

  • What your competitors charge, nightly

    Their price for every night ahead, not the one night on this page, so you know which nights you are leaving money on.

Stop losing $397 to $744 a month for each room

OneHorizyn finds where your hotel loses money and tells you what to fix first, every week:

  • Booking sites
    When they sell your room for less than your own website, so more guests book you direct
  • Your competitors
    Their prices in Charleston for the nights ahead, so you price every night right
  • Google and AI
    What they tell guests about you, and how to get recommended first
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