Recommendations on where to stay in Nashville...Downtown? Midtown? The Gulch? Will not be renting a car. Want to hear music, eat, drink and shop. This is a Mother/Daughter trip.
Posted by
Knoxville, TN, USA
7209 posts
You would probably get better response/answers from asking this question in a forum that deals specifically with Nashville:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowForum-g55229-i154-Nashville_Davidson_County_Tennessee.html
Posted by
OP
Denver, CO, United States
49 posts
OMG so much information, thank you!
Posted by
Washington DC Region, USA
7049 posts
Some info on Nashville from prior thread:
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/beyond-europe/memphis-nashville-smoky-mtns
Also, Nashville has a great website for planning purposes:
http://www.visitmusiccity.com/visitors
If you have no rental car, I wouldn't stay at the Gulch even though it meets your shopping criteria and it has a great divey music joint called The Station Inn. It just wouldn't be fun walking back there at night. Stay downtown and everything will be walking distance, although I found many fun neighborhoods in Nashville that do require having a car and I'm really glad I had one (but staying downtown is a pain with a car because parking is so expensive - so it's a tradeoff).
Posted by
TN, USA
2114 posts
Pam,
We are honored you will be visiting Nashville. It has become even more popular in the last decade or so. There really is never a slow time now, although there are times that are more brisk than others.
I'll attach a link to a thread where I provided a GOB (maybe too much) information to a recent poster who is visiting Nashville (I think right now, as I type).
As far as WHERE to stay, what type hotel do you like? Modern? Historic? A bit of a splurge? Budget? While I haven't personally stayed in a hotel in Nashville in decades, I do hear a lot about some of the new boutique hotels, and I am familiar with some of the others (because family/friends have enjoyed them).
Also, what type shopping will you be interested in? Clothing? Arts? Cute shops in historic areas? Antiques?
Nashville is a big Uber type city with visitors. We are working on making mass transit easier/more plentiful, but mass transit is currently rather limited to the city buses and downtown trollies for the most part.. There are tourist trollies to help get around downtown, but for the more wide-reaching areas, seems most visitors without cars use Uber.
Nashville has a tremendous number of really great restaurants...some of the top ones need reservations far in advance, but others are easy to reserve just a day or two ahead, and some are easy to walk in without reservations (depending on time of year).
When you will you be visiting?
Here's the thread to which I added a bunch of links. But, some of the answers I posted were specific to that poster (she will have a dog along with her and they will have a car). But, feel free to ask any specific questions, and I'll be glad to help in any way I can.
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/beyond-europe/memphis-nashville-smoky-mtns