DAY TO DAY ITINERARY
DAY 1: Fly into Nashville and spend three nights in the Music Valley Drive area, up near Opry. Suggest you visit Nashville Palace, which will be quite close to our hotel, for live country music in the evening. Also close are popular family restaurants like Cracker Barrel, Shoneys and Bob Evans.
DAY 2: We will organise a coach to take everyone downtown to the Lower Broadway area. If we can get a time for a group tour we will take group to RCA’s Studio B. This is where the Nashville Sound started under Chet Atkins. Elvis recorded more than 260 songs here and the studio is still used. Eddy Arnold, Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Jim Reeves are just some that used the studio. A tour takes about an hour then we will take you downtown. Once there you can choose to visit the Country Music Hall Of Fame, the Ryman Auditorium, Johnny Cash Museum or just listen to the live music at dozens of different bars. These bars are free to enter.
Day 3: In the morning you could visit the Willie Nelson Museum, which is close, before we take you for a country show and lunch on board the General Jackson paddle steamer. You eat your lunch whilst the country show takes place and afterwards there is usually a band playing at the stern of the boat, so the live country music continues. Quite a lot of our tour members have been known to dance all the way back to the dock. This is always one of the highlights of our tours. Afterwards we give you the option of visiting the Opryland Hotel or the Opry Shopping Mall before we take you back to hotel so you can change for a visit to the Grand Ole Opry. Afterwards we give you a choice of where to be dropped but you must make your own way back. There will be live music in the area.
Over the past couple of years Nashville has got very busy at weekends so we think this is a better approach.
Ryman Auditortium and Grand Ole Opry
