Must-see hotels in Nashville

  • Urban Cowboy

    East Nashville

    In a word: stunning. Nashville's most exciting sleeps are in a Queen Anne Victorian–style mansion dating from the 1890s, which nurtures seven individually…

  • Germantown Inn

    Nashville

    Germantown's oldest house, a shoemaker's cottage dating to 1865, has been flipped into a charming 10-room inn steeped in local design. Exposed brick and…

  • Nashville Downtown Hostel

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Well located, only a block from Lower Broadway, and up to the minute in style and function. The common space in the basement, with its rather regal…

  • Noelle

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Nashville's best sleep conjures 1930s glamor through a modern lens, and its lobby bar, Trade Room, stuns with original brass detailing and Tennessee pink…

  • 404

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Guests let themselves into Nashville's hippest – and smallest – hotel. Beyond the ebonized cedar frontage, industrial grays under violet lighting lead to…

  • Thompson Nashville

    Downtown & the Gulch

    A bastion of finely polished, mid-century modern cool, the Thompson Nashville is the Gulch's see-and-be-seen seat of style, whether that be agonizing over…

  • Hutton Hotel

    Nashville

    One of our favorite Nashville boutique hotels riffs on mid-century modern design, with bamboo-paneled walls and reclaimed WWI barnwood flooring. Sizable…

  • Hermitage Hotel

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Nashville's first million-dollar hotel was a hit with the socialites when it opened in 1910. The beaux-arts lobby feels like a czar's palace, every…

  • Bobby Hotel

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Who is Bobby? The king of cool in Nashville. From the immense lobby chandelier made of polished car parts to the vintage Greyhound bus repurposed as a…

  • Vandyke Bed & Beverage

    East Nashville

    Forget awkward conversations over breakfast – this swanky eight-room 'bed and beverage' loosens up guests with a rock-solid cocktail menu and…

  • 1501 Linden Manor

    Nashville

    The husband-and-wife owners have filled this yellow Victorian cottage with antiques collected on their world travels – Persian rugs, Asian carvings, old…

  • Big Bungalow

    East Nashville

    Chatty proprietress Ellen Warshaw welcomes visitors into her East Nashville bungalow, where the three casually decorated guest rooms feel more like your…

  • Gaylord Opryland Resort

    Nashville

    This whopping 2888-room hotel is a universe unto itself, the largest non-casino resort in the USA. Why set foot outdoors when you can ride a flatboat…

  • Omni Nashville Hotel

    Downtown & the Gulch

    This luxury hotel shares a building with Hatch Show Print, the Country Music Hall of Fame and several top restaurants. Its proximity to Music City Center…

  • Music City Hostel

    Nashville

    These squat brick bungalows are humble, but Nashville's West End hostel is lively and welcoming, with a common kitchen, an outdoor grill, a fire pit and…

  • Sheraton Grand Nashville Downtown

    Downtown & the Gulch

    There are only seven Sheraton Grands in North America and Nashville's is a stunner. Glass elevators glide heavenward through champagne-bubble lights in…

  • Union Station Hotel

    Downtown & the Gulch

    This soaring Romanesque gray-stone castle was Nashville's train station back in the days when rail travel was a grand affair; today it's downtown's most…

  • Aloft Nashville West End

    Nashville

    Painted portraits of celebrity musicians welcome guests to this West End hotel. The brand's loud colors and contemporary style mix with local themes:…

  • 21c Museum Hotel

    Downtown & the Gulch

    The South's hippest hotel-museum-hybrid chain has settled into a rehabilitated historic Gray & Dudley Building. In addition to its 124 trademark modern,…

  • Best Western Plus – Music Row

    Nashville

    With a brown-and-gold color scheme and classic furniture, these rooms are a bit dated, but the rates include parking and a substantial hot breakfast…

  • Loews Vanderbilt Hotel

    Nashville

    At a distance from the hubbub of the Broadway honky-tonks, this hotel is a favorite among fan-weary touring musicians and businesspeople, and is routinely…

  • Nashville KOA Kampground

    Nashville

    Popular with RVers, this well-manicured, wholesome campground also has tent sites, cabins, and lodges with kitchenettes, all set back from the road…

  • Hotel Preston

    Nashville

    Sticking out of the airport-area landscape like a boutique-hotel mirage, this pop-art-influenced property stands out where one would expect bland business…

  • Holiday Inn Nashville – Vanderbilt

    Nashville

    This hotel proves an exception to the rule that all Holiday Inns are the same. The ground-floor Commodore Grille holds frequent songwriters' nights that…

  • Fairfield Inn & Suites

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Convenient to breweries, restaurants and music venues in the Gulch, this fairly standard hotel does feature some nice Music City details. A helpful city…