Hotels with Heart – The Mills House Hotel in Charleston

We get so caught up sometimes talking about hotels with big rooms, hotels with great deals and hotels with really fancy bathtubs that we forget the most important thing a hotel can have is heart. We’re a little late on this one, but we just couldn’t let a story like this go by.

The Mills House Hotel, a historic Charleston hotel that’s part of the city’s “Museum Mile”, has hosted not one but two food charities in the past three months. First was a September food drive which yielded over 500 pounds of food for the Low Country Food Bank. Then, barely a month later, the hotel followed this up with a pet food drive for the Charleston Animal Society Pet Food Bank.

This second event in particular turned the adorableness up to eleven. To celebrate the season, Halloween at the time, event guests showed up with their pets in full costume (just don’t tell Jay Leno). The event raised $1800 in cash and over 600 pounds of pet food.

We salute the Mills House Hotel for understanding that charity is more than throwing your name behind a good cause, it’s about getting in there and doing the good work for yourself.

If you happen to be traveling through Charleston, keep the Mills House in mind.

Mills House photography used with permission.

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