Best Boutique Hotels in Nashville
Nashville's boutique scene has grown faster than any American music city — SoBro, The Gulch, and East Nashville all have properties that capture the city's genuine energy.
Nashville has added more hotel rooms per capita than almost any American city in the past decade, and the boutique properties are the most interesting part of the story. The Gulch's converted warehouses, East Nashville's neighbourhood inns, and SoBro's new-build design hotels have all produced properties that reflect the city's musical identity without descending into theme-park country.
Downtown & SoBro
The Joseph Nashville, a Luxury Collection hotel in SoBro, is the city's most architecturally significant recent opening — a purpose-built tower with a collection of contemporary American art and a rooftop restaurant with views of the Cumberland River. The Hermitage Hotel is Nashville's original grand hotel, opened in 1910, AAA Five Diamond, and the only property in Tennessee worth staying at for the building alone.
The Gulch
The Gulch is Nashville's most thoroughly developed boutique hotel neighbourhood — converted warehouses, purpose-built design properties, and a restaurant scene that has drawn national attention. Thompson Nashville has a rooftop bar that became the city's most photographed vantage point within months of opening.
East Nashville
East Nashville is the city for people who live in Nashville — independent record stores, neighbourhood bars that have been around since before the boom, and small boutique properties that cater to artists and musicians rather than bachelorette parties. It's a twenty-minute walk from Broadway and feels like a different city.
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