User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:27:03 PM EDT
My family and I are going to Memphis tomorrow, and leaving Sunday, so 2 full days, plus tomorrow evening.
What is a good area of town to stay in? Does anyone have any specific hotel (around 100 dollars a room) recommendations? Thanks! 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:28:47 PM EDT
[#1]
Quoted:
My family and I are going to Memphis tomorrow, and leaving Sunday, so 2 full days, plus tomorrow evening. What is a good area of town to stay in? Does anyone have any specific hotel (around 100 dollars a room) recommendations? Thanks! I suggest not coming here... hah Also recommend staying a few miles south in Southaven. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:29:17 PM EDT
[#2]
Yikes, $100 a room, huh?
Well, for what its worth that hotel with the marching duck is class A. Anything other than that I can't personally vouche for 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:29:54 PM EDT
[#3]
Quoted:
Quoted:
My family and I are going to Memphis tomorrow, and leaving Sunday, so 2 full days, plus tomorrow evening. What is a good area of town to stay in? Does anyone have any specific hotel (around 100 dollars a room) recommendations? Thanks! I suggest not coming here... hah Also recommend staying a few miles south in Southaven. Inside a combat loaded MRAP |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:30:08 PM EDT
[#4]
Far from where they always film "The First 48"
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:30:49 PM EDT
[#5]
Orange Mound is a really nice area.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:30:51 PM EDT
[#6]
Westin Downtown is nice .. if you're staying downtown
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:31:52 PM EDT
[#7]
Is "Knoxville" an option to stay in?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:33:03 PM EDT
[#8]
Where are you planning on spending your time? Downtown / Beale? Planning on drinking or just seeing the sights?
Whatever it is, get your hotel FAR AWAY from Elvis Presley Blvd / Graceland. Honestly a very rough area.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:33:04 PM EDT
[#9]
Find a place to stay at 5th and main.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:33:41 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
What is a good area of town to stay in? Nashville. Crap. CarbineDad beat me to it, and with a better option.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:34:30 PM EDT
[#11]
FInd a hotel in a very very expensive part of town then don't leave the hotel!
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:35:08 PM EDT
[#12]
Just spending the time to visit downtown, the sights, beale street, etc. BBQ of course and a craft beer bar as well.
We can spend more for the room than 100, probably not more than 150 a night though. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:35:31 PM EDT
[#13]
Corner of Park and Getwell?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:36:07 PM EDT
[#14]
But you have to visit Voodoo village.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:36:45 PM EDT
[#15]
Quoted: Corner of Park and Getwell? Excellent choice.  |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:37:32 PM EDT
[#16]
Quoted:
Orange Mound is a really nice area. And if all the fine establishments there are booked up for the hour when you try to check in, head on over to Danny Thomas Blvd and try your luck there. I'd suggest getting there before dark. 
OP, seriously, Memphis really sucks. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:38:37 PM EDT
[#17]
Tunica?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:39:46 PM EDT
[#18]
OP do you notice a trend here in your thread? Most of the people commenting DONT live there any more, and for good reason.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:39:59 PM EDT
[#19]
$100 huh, that should get ya a hooker,room and a rock or two..
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:40:50 PM EDT
[#20]
Quoted:
Just spending the time to visit downtown, the sights, beale street, etc. BBQ of course and a craft beer bar as well. We can spend more for the room than 100, probably not more than 150 a night though. Drury Inn in Southaven is around $60-70 and right on I-55. Much safer area too. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:41:11 PM EDT
[#21]
OP- if you don't mind a 15min drive, stay in Cordova. The Hampton can be had for 109 ish a night.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:46:08 PM EDT
[#22]
Quoted: Just spending the time to visit downtown, the sights, beale street, etc. BBQ of course and a craft beer bar as well. We can spend more for the room than 100, probably not more than 150 a night though. Then in tat case: depening on the size of your family and the flexibility of your budget, I'd recommend looking into the Talbot Heirs Guesthouse (google it). Different then the "hotel" experience, within 'stumbling' distance of Beale (i.e. you're not wandering around downown after dark), and starting at prices not too much higher than downtown hotels. Little 'hidden gem' we have.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:46:58 PM EDT
[#23]
Quoted:
OP- if you don't mind a 15min drive, stay in Cordova. The Hampton can be had for 109 ish a night. ah, Cordova! 
Rich, Corinthian leather! |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:47:26 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted: Or east in Germantown or Cordova. Quoted: My family and I are going to Memphis tomorrow, and leaving Sunday, so 2 full days, plus tomorrow evening. What is a good area of town to stay in? Does anyone have any specific hotel (around 100 dollars a room) recommendations? Thanks! I suggest not coming here... hah Also recommend staying a few miles south in Southaven. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:48:42 PM EDT
[#25]
What did your family ever do to you?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:51:02 PM EDT
[#26]
Quoted:
Tunica? Get a room at a casino in Tunica and drive up there for the day The Harrahs has rooms $268 for three nights |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:51:15 PM EDT
[#27]
Quoted:
OP- if you don't mind a 15min drive, stay in Cordova. The Hampton can be had for 109 ish a night. I've stayed in that one before when I just did a night away from thing. Not too bad but Memphis?!?! Whhhhy I guess since it's cold it may be the time to visit. Summer I wouldn't do it. OP as others have said don't stay near Graceland |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:51:52 PM EDT
[#28]
If you absolutely *must* stay in Memphis, try for a room at the Peabody. You can hang out in the hotel bar, watch the ducks go to roost at 5PM, walk across the street and eat BBQ ribs at the rendezvous one night and walk out back behind the Peabody and eat at the brazilian steakhouse the next night. I forget its name.
Anyway, seriously, Memphis isn't exactly a premier vacation spot. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:52:11 PM EDT
[#29]
OP, seriously, Memphis really sucks.
Seriously. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:52:36 PM EDT
[#30]
Chelsea Avenue and Standridge (google streetview)
Beautiful area, it's the pinnacle of African American culture in Memphis. Drive through and take a look. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:53:27 PM EDT
[#31]
Ugh, I went there for a weekend because my buddy got married at Graceland and I was in the wedding.
I honestly can't recall exactly where I stayed, but Memphis is one of the few cities I've been to that I didn't feel safe at all. Even with a CCW. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:53:37 PM EDT
[#32]
Srsly, OP get a cabin in Gatlinburg and just commute for the trip to Memphis.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:53:41 PM EDT
[#33]
But he REALLY, REALLY wants to visit Graceland....
I highly recommend going to the Krispy Kreme factory on 51/Elvis Presley. HOT DONUTS! WHO WANTS ONE! Oh my damn, the way they melt in your mouth.... Fresh off the machine... mmmmmm diabetes. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:53:43 PM EDT
[#34]
I've never lived there, so I'd listen to the folks that do.
I've driven or ridden thru dozens of times. I've spent the night in the area twice, and both times stayed in Germantown, then went in to Memphis to see what I wanted to see. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:55:02 PM EDT
[#35]
Quoted:
Is "Knoxville" an option to stay in? I was thinking Crossville ... |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:56:53 PM EDT
[#36]
These guys really aren't BSing about staying in Memphis, after dark it is like a warzone, without rules of engagement for anybody. Imagine Mogadishu or Beirut in 82.
I lived there for a couple of years, worked on Directors Row, just between Airways and E. Brooks. I once tried to pull into our parking lot one morning and couldn't, the police had it taped off, local gangs had a machine gun fight the night before, left six dead and 300 shell casings in a parking lot big enough for less than ten cars. ETA: I lived in Germantown, Off Poplar at Germanttown parkway, you couldn't imagine a nicer more pleasant place to live. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 5:58:09 PM EDT
[#37]
Seriously though OP.
You'd better be armed. I believe Memphis is more dangerous than Detroit. Might even be Americas most dangerous city. Don't stay there. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:00:16 PM EDT
[#38]
Anywhere with high walls and bullet proof glass.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:00:24 PM EDT
[#39]
It's winter, most of the local species are practically in hibernation. Typically, if it's cheap, it's not in a good area.
Actually the Hampton Inn off of Beale is really nice. Not sure on the pricing. Don't go out on Beale Sat night. There is Rendezvous, Central, and Gus' all within a 2 min drive from there. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:01:44 PM EDT
[#40]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Is "Knoxville" an option to stay in? I was thinking Crossville ... Dad told me a funny story about Crossville. They used to be so kind as to escort "out-of-towners" out of town, by nightfall
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:02:03 PM EDT
[#41]
OP. As a Tennessean let me tell you what I heard in my head when I read your question.
"Where is a good place I can stay in Detroit for $100 a night?" |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:02:14 PM EDT
[#42]
Get some Pork BBQ while you're there.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:02:30 PM EDT
[#43]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Is "Knoxville" an option to stay in? I was thinking Crossville ... Dad told me a funny story about Crossville. They used to be so kind as to escort "out-of-towners" out of town, by nightfall It was the high-altitude attitudes. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:03:30 PM EDT
[#44]
Quoted:
Get some Pork BBQ while you're there. There's an idea - stay in Paducah, KY and eat at Starne's Barbeque. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:04:24 PM EDT
[#45]
When I drive through Memphis, 2-4 times a year, I always have a gun in my hand. Not in the seat, not in my lap, unholstered, spare mag on the console and my Glock in my hand. Fuck that place.
A company I used to work for had an office in Memphis that I went to twice. They found a dead body in the empty lot behind the office. They had a guard dog service drop dogs off every evening and had razor wire inside and outside the building. No female could be at the office by herself. Someone stole the wheels off of one of the office worker's cars and left a note demanding $200 for return of the wheels. She went to the bank, got the cash, left it under the wiper blade and had her wheels back 30 minutes later. I never took my gun off unless I was in the shower or asleep. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:05:19 PM EDT
[#46]
T1G has bunks and nice security.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:06:02 PM EDT
[#47]
Stay at a Candlewood Suites in Olive Branch Mississippi. Drive into town to do the tourist crap. Eat lunch at Interstate BBQ on 3rd street. Do not go there at night.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:07:19 PM EDT
[#48]
Quoted:
When I drive through Memphis, 2-4 times a year, I always have a gun in my hand. Not in the seat, not in my lap, unholstered, spare mag on the console and my Glock in my hand. Fuck that place. A company I used to work for had an office in Memphis that I went to twice. They found a dead body in the empty lot behind the office. They had a guard dog service drop dogs off every evening and had razor wire inside and outside the building. No female could be at the office by herself. Someone stole the wheels off of one of the office worker's cars and left a note demanding $200 for return of the wheels. She went to the bank, got the cash, left it under the wiper blade and had her wheels back 30 minutes later. I never took my gun off unless I was in the shower or asleep. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:09:07 PM EDT
[#49]
Quoted:
Stay at a Candlewood Suites in Olive Branch Mississippi. Drive into town to do the tourist crap. Eat lunch at Interstate BBQ on 3rd street. Do not go there at night. Also Memphis BBQ Co off of Goodman/55 is really good too. |
|
|
|
Posted: 12/26/2012 6:09:18 PM EDT
[#50]
I'll second staying in Southaven ms.
|
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
