Mel

Review of The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, A M...

Very friendly and helpful service staff, from the ...

Very friendly and helpful service staff, from the housekeeping to the cart drivers to the servers. Unfortunately, management has not figured out how excruciatingly uncomfortable and disturbing it is to be on a former plantation built on the blood, sweat, and tears of slaves and a) not see a single mention of this dark history in their timeline/history brochures/tours and b) not see any memorial to the lives and suffering lost on this land. Instead, this place boasts a disgustingly whitewashed history/romanticization of the "good ol' times", aka opulence provided by slavery, and the place feels true to the "good ol' days" with its very segregated staffing and guest pattern (it was basically all white guests being served hand and foot by a disproportionately black staff; I only saw one black person in the "professional" positions). The only mention of slavery was on a tour of Daufuskie Island when our white tour guide told us the slaves lived equally side by side with the white residents and stayed after emancipation because life there was so good (!). I mean, I get the desire to psychologically protect yourself from uncomfortable truths, but this place was a bit much. Of course, everyone is so nice, and the place is beautiful, so uncomfortable truths are kept secret so white people can continue to be comfortable.... So it goes... This place was heartbreaking.