So you are coming to Nashville...
It's 2025.....The "IT" city rolls on...if you are coming...It's not a bring the kids town...It's an adult/couples/singles town... No theme park anymore...and Louisville and Atlanta have the closest ones...( Dollywood is 4 plus hours away)
So many folks want to come to Nashville because they love Country Music and or they watched the ABC TV show.
Nashville is a cool city to visit if you are an ADULT. You can argue this all day but there is little to do here for little people. The town used to have Opryland and that was a huge attraction for families. Now.. we have a very nice zoo but no family attraction on the scale of a Dollywood in East Tennessee. So adults….and would be brides this is your town!!! Nashville is one of the most sought after places for bachelorette parties. Weekends are filled with them and they are hard to miss!
Drinking and eating are the two biggest social activities in Music City.. And we are world class in both…Really!
This has become a foodie town!! From Gourmet to Hot Chicken. Read any food magazine and Nashville is on the must try spots!! I also know they are not inexpensive overall and you can’t just walk in expecting to be seated. You need the web site..app..www.Opentable.com. Impulse eating on a weekend in Nashville will get you in McDonalds!!
The Hermitage Hotel, 231 6th Avenue North. This 114-year-old grande dame has hosted presidents, sports heroes and movie stars. Don’t miss afternoon tea or the hotel’s fabulous restrooms: The ladies’ is a study in pink marble while the gents’ is green-and-black Art Deco. (Downtown) There are other hotels...JW Marriott,etc..$500.00 a night rooms are not hard to find...EXPENSIVE town! Higher than NYC at times...amazing but true..
Nashville is an "IT" city right now which is a good and bad thing… The Good is obvious. The city is attracting talent and wealth. Million-dollar housing is not uncommon. The fancy foodie establishments are flocking in. And there is a SHORTAGE of downtown hotel rooms. The gigantic Music City Center convention palace is open and it is HUGE! The NRA and major conventions are around and hotels are springing up like weeds in the downtown core. All seem to be expensive. Even the suburbs at a say Hilton Garden Inn Brentwood has a AAA lowest rate pay in advance of $160 so with tax you are close to $200 a night. Downtown HIGHER : Omni and Hermitage $300 to 600 ! WARNING!!! Yes, there are some 100-dollar price point places to stay but like any other city we have places I wouldn’t really drive around in the daytime much less sleep at night…so… penny wise pound foolish… be careful here like you would in any big city .. walking around downtown seems to be ok overall night and day…but get out in the shadows…and I would be worried about you!! Ok that’s just the truth…and yes big traffic situations at drive time.. and big city growing pains all over…
Nashville boasts more music museums than anywhere else, mostly Downtown. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum spotlights country music icons, while the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum honors the greats across genres. The National Museum of African American Music, opened in 2021, explores genres influenced by African American communities.
In the Gulch, the former main post office with its soaring ceilings and Art Deco design has been transformed into the Frist Art Museum, showcasing rotating exhibitions of international and local artists. For music, slide into a pew at the Ryman Auditorium — the “mother church” to locals — home to the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974 and now hosting some of today’s biggest stars. Meanwhile The Station Inn showcases acclaimed bluegrass from renowned banjo, fiddle and even washboard players.
So many folks want to come to Nashville because they love Country Music and or they watched the ABC TV show.
Nashville is a cool city to visit if you are an ADULT. You can argue this all day but there is little to do here for little people. The town used to have Opryland and that was a huge attraction for families. Now.. we have a very nice zoo but no family attraction on the scale of a Dollywood in East Tennessee. So adults….and would be brides this is your town!!! Nashville is one of the most sought after places for bachelorette parties. Weekends are filled with them and they are hard to miss!
Drinking and eating are the two biggest social activities in Music City.. And we are world class in both…Really!
This has become a foodie town!! From Gourmet to Hot Chicken. Read any food magazine and Nashville is on the must try spots!! I also know they are not inexpensive overall and you can’t just walk in expecting to be seated. You need the web site..app..www.Opentable.com. Impulse eating on a weekend in Nashville will get you in McDonalds!!
The Hermitage Hotel, 231 6th Avenue North. This 114-year-old grande dame has hosted presidents, sports heroes and movie stars. Don’t miss afternoon tea or the hotel’s fabulous restrooms: The ladies’ is a study in pink marble while the gents’ is green-and-black Art Deco. (Downtown) There are other hotels...JW Marriott,etc..$500.00 a night rooms are not hard to find...EXPENSIVE town! Higher than NYC at times...amazing but true..
Nashville is an "IT" city right now which is a good and bad thing… The Good is obvious. The city is attracting talent and wealth. Million-dollar housing is not uncommon. The fancy foodie establishments are flocking in. And there is a SHORTAGE of downtown hotel rooms. The gigantic Music City Center convention palace is open and it is HUGE! The NRA and major conventions are around and hotels are springing up like weeds in the downtown core. All seem to be expensive. Even the suburbs at a say Hilton Garden Inn Brentwood has a AAA lowest rate pay in advance of $160 so with tax you are close to $200 a night. Downtown HIGHER : Omni and Hermitage $300 to 600 ! WARNING!!! Yes, there are some 100-dollar price point places to stay but like any other city we have places I wouldn’t really drive around in the daytime much less sleep at night…so… penny wise pound foolish… be careful here like you would in any big city .. walking around downtown seems to be ok overall night and day…but get out in the shadows…and I would be worried about you!! Ok that’s just the truth…and yes big traffic situations at drive time.. and big city growing pains all over…
Nashville boasts more music museums than anywhere else, mostly Downtown. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum spotlights country music icons, while the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum honors the greats across genres. The National Museum of African American Music, opened in 2021, explores genres influenced by African American communities.
In the Gulch, the former main post office with its soaring ceilings and Art Deco design has been transformed into the Frist Art Museum, showcasing rotating exhibitions of international and local artists. For music, slide into a pew at the Ryman Auditorium — the “mother church” to locals — home to the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974 and now hosting some of today’s biggest stars. Meanwhile The Station Inn showcases acclaimed bluegrass from renowned banjo, fiddle and even washboard players.
Yes, we have NHL Hockey and NFL Football…they get plenty of national attention. Yes an now a new Soccer stadium
Clubs..too many to name..Tootsie’s and Ole Red the most well known but Lower Broadway is fast becoming a Bourbon Street or at least a Memphis Beale Street. Drinking and music is the draw…Garth..everyone has a stand alone nightclub.. ACME…The Hard Rock.. too many to start to list.. You will find them!!
Taxi’s are high lots of folks use UBER.. The Palm, Jack’s Bar B Cue, Ruth Chris, Jimmy Kelly’s, Valentino’s and way out The Loveless Café are my tried and true old school dependable eating places… Monell’s…The Gerst Haus (German) have all been here a long time…many other’s of course.
Nashville has an amazing symphony hall even Willie Nelson’s plays there. The Opry is a MUST visit…It is history and you never know who will show up 52 weeks a year!The BlueBird you see on tv and maybe even Pancake Pantry but expect to stand in line. Take the Grayline Star tour…its fun..Several other folks in town do tours too …If you don’t have wheels…and time to kill.. gives you a feel of the place. Nashville just opened a new minor league baseball stadium and new amphitheater but they are seasonal. Both cool and very nice but seasonal. Eating. Drinking….and learning…plenty of all that in Nashville..
Cheekwood is a very pretty place…Steeplechase weekend is a crazy time at the Percy Warner (Nashville’s Central Park)…Yes the huge CMA Music Festival is overwhelming and not for the weak. Heat and walking!!! More music possible then you could ever imagine…The Nashville Zoo keeps growing and getting better…(was already good)…
Nashville now has The Gulch…and other young 20 something hot spots. None are cheap. Sticker shock can be real in this trendy town. Tiffany’s at Green Hills Mall should tell you something. East Nashville is where all the locals and hipsters play....They dont go to the tourist spots..
Tennessee is a great great vacation state…driving your car around state kind of place …from Memphis to Bristol…Nascar to The CMA and Bonnaroo..The Chattanooga Choo Choo and Graceland. Jack Daniel’s in Lynchburg to Lookout Mountain…Tennessee is pretty and other than downtown Nashville very affordable.
Nashville has an amazing symphony hall even Willie Nelson’s plays there. The Opry is a MUST visit…It is history and you never know who will show up 52 weeks a year!The BlueBird you see on tv and maybe even Pancake Pantry but expect to stand in line. Take the Grayline Star tour…its fun..Several other folks in town do tours too …If you don’t have wheels…and time to kill.. gives you a feel of the place. Nashville just opened a new minor league baseball stadium and new amphitheater but they are seasonal. Both cool and very nice but seasonal. Eating. Drinking….and learning…plenty of all that in Nashville..
Cheekwood is a very pretty place…Steeplechase weekend is a crazy time at the Percy Warner (Nashville’s Central Park)…Yes the huge CMA Music Festival is overwhelming and not for the weak. Heat and walking!!! More music possible then you could ever imagine…The Nashville Zoo keeps growing and getting better…(was already good)…
Nashville now has The Gulch…and other young 20 something hot spots. None are cheap. Sticker shock can be real in this trendy town. Tiffany’s at Green Hills Mall should tell you something. East Nashville is where all the locals and hipsters play....They dont go to the tourist spots..
Tennessee is a great great vacation state…driving your car around state kind of place …from Memphis to Bristol…Nascar to The CMA and Bonnaroo..The Chattanooga Choo Choo and Graceland. Jack Daniel’s in Lynchburg to Lookout Mountain…Tennessee is pretty and other than downtown Nashville very affordable.
If you love music…Country…R&B…Bluegrass and Pop too. Stax Museum in Memphis, RCA studio B on Music Row.. so much to see and hear in Tennessee. From Elvis to Johnny to Dolly and of course The Grand Old Opry and The Ryman. This place has to be on your bucket list!!!!!!!
