I was just in nashville for a weekend and was prepared to not like it (was meeting friends who were going to be there - city was NOT a draw.)

We did not hang out downtown - which is absolutely like a nonstop bachelor/bachelorette party w/ party buses, wall to wall bars, etc...

However, we went to the Opry one night and I was shocked by how much I enjoyed it. I'm not a country music fan, but I am a fan of great, well produced, live entertainment and the Opry totally delivered. I would absolutely go again.

We also went line dancing (at a bar outside downtown) and had tremendous fun.

We had some great meals and did some shopping, and there were other shows happening I would have loved to have seen if we'd had time.

All in all we had a fantastic weekend and I came away shocked at how much fun it was (and how glad I was not to have been based downtown - that just not being my scene.)

You people are doing 1000% your best to make it sound like Nashville is entirely worth it.

I found it to be weird and alcohol-sodden.

Anonymous wrote:No. The whole city is basically Southern bachelorette parties.

Nashvegas

I go for work frequently. Try to get out of town ASAP. And I love bars and music. Just not those types of bars or country music.

Anonymous wrote:Also they’ve got a Nazi problem right now.

Yeah, it's a pile of garbage.

Also they’ve got a Nazi problem right now.

Anonymous wrote:My favorite was the Johnny Cash museum but we also went to the Ryman, the Parthenon, the Farmer's Market, Marathon Motor Works, the Museum of African American Music, the Country Music Hall of Fame, Hattie B's Hot Chicken, Swetts, Assembly Food Hall, Biscuit Love Gulch, a BBQ place over by Vanderbilt, and up and down Broadway in and out of different bars listening to some great music and enjoying the hectic atmosphere.

I wish i had done the Johnny Cash museum, but places like Assembly Food Hall was like going to Tyson's Corner, but without the charming atmosphere. Think Union Market, but with bad food.

No, it's a dump.

it's one of the biggest disappointments. It's a giant s-hole of bachelorette parties and people vomiting. There's also construction sites, empty glass buildings and traffic.

Seriously! I was prepared for a really cool scene, and from Thursday to Sunday Broadway is like a lame, try-hard version of Bourbon Street in NoLa. Bars overflowing with aggressive bros and women too old to be wearing tubetops and pink cowboy hats, screaming and every bar is blasting Usher or Lil Jon. There's virtually no country to be heard!

The one positive experience I had WAS extremely positive—the Station Inn was SUPER cool, very chill, cheap and filled with chill people and I saw a fantastic bluegrass band (ironically from Baltimore) who played their hearts out and were amazing. But it's not near downtown and it's surrounded by very expensive restaurants in a kind of sleepy upscale area. Lexuses and Mercedes taking up all the parking...

Such a weird place — felt like a lot of people working very hard to make it seem authentic and fun, and all they were doing was creating a hellhole for raucous bachelorette parties.

In my opinion, no, it was one of my least favorite cities I’ve visited.

Anonymous wrote:My favorite was the Johnny Cash museum but we also went to the Ryman, the Parthenon, the Farmer's Market, Marathon Motor Works, the Museum of African American Music, the Country Music Hall of Fame, Hattie B's Hot Chicken, Swetts, Assembly Food Hall, Biscuit Love Gulch, a BBQ place over by Vanderbilt, and up and down Broadway in and out of different bars listening to some great music and enjoying the hectic atmosphere.

Good list, thank you!

My favorite was the Johnny Cash museum but we also went to the Ryman, the Parthenon, the Farmer's Market, Marathon Motor Works, the Museum of African American Music, the Country Music Hall of Fame, Hattie B's Hot Chicken, Swetts, Assembly Food Hall, Biscuit Love Gulch, a BBQ place over by Vanderbilt, and up and down Broadway in and out of different bars listening to some great music and enjoying the hectic atmosphere.

Anonymous wrote:I don't drink and only like some country music but I had a great time there, M-F with family and friends at an Airbnb. It was lots of fun. We saw lots of great stuff downtown, went to some great restaurants and had fun just hanging out downtown at night. Some of the others with me did drink, they may have had even more fun.

Could you give more specifics about what you saw and did and enjoyed? My kid wants to go their for their 21st birthday.

I don't drink and only like some country music but I had a great time there, M-F with family and friends at an Airbnb. It was lots of fun. We saw lots of great stuff downtown, went to some great restaurants and had fun just hanging out downtown at night. Some of the others with me did drink, they may have had even more fun.

No. The whole city is basically Southern bachelorette parties.

I’ve never been but a friend wants to do a girls trip there. I’m not into country music or a big drinker. Would it be worth it to go there?