3 night trip - opinions please (rent, hotels, vacations, best)

[TAM88]

Out of the following cities, which do you think would make for the best 3 night trip?

Montreal
Toronto
Nashville
Charleston
Portland
Denver

[StealthRabbit]

time of year?
What do you like to do?
How much money do you want to spend?
Will you have a car?
Will you go specifically during an 'event' weekend?

I vote Quebec City!

Portland (oregon) for August - Oct (if you have a car to drive 1 hr to beach or one hour to mtns / Columbia River Gorge)
Portland Maine for Oct

Followed by Montreal, Charleston, Toronto, then Nashville. I prefer all during the fall season.

Denver I can do without (30 yrs in Colorado, but I avoided Denver most of those yrs)
Chicago, SF, LA, Seattle, NO, and Boston are nice 3 day cities.

DC, I like to spend 5 days (lots of nice biking... have spent up to 2 months visiting there during fall season).

[TAM88]

Originally Posted by StealthRabbit

time of year?
What do you like to do?
How much money do you want to spend?
Will you have a car?
Will you go specifically during an 'event' weekend?

I vote Quebec City!

Portland (oregon) for August - Oct (if you have a car to drive 1 hr to beach or one hour to mtns / Columbia River Gorge)
Portland Maine for Oct

Followed by Montreal, Charleston, Toronto, then Nashville. I prefer all during the fall season.

Denver I can do without (30 yrs in Colorado, but I avoided Denver most of those yrs)
Chicago, SF, LA, Seattle, NO, and Boston are nice 3 day cities.

DC, I like to spend 5 days (lots of nice biking... have spent up to 2 months visiting there during fall season).

Will rent a car if needed. Late September trip. Not looking to go anywhere during any event weekends. Like to do a mix of nature, museums, historical sights, self exploration (walking different neighborhoods). Also enjoy bars and good food (then again, who doesn't?).

I've done Chicago, LA, SF, NO, DC and Seattle - I live in Boston.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Go to Nashville, and be sure to go to the Bluebird Cafe for great live entertainment. It's a really small venue with great live artists, and it's not all country music. I lived in Nashville for about 5 years many years ago. The Bluebird Cafe was my favorite.

Home | The Bluebird Cafe

You also need to go to the Pancake Pantry mid-morning or so, if you want to see famous country artists enjoying breakfast:

https://www.thepancakepantry.com/

Country artists are very open to meeting fans, in my experience, at least when I lived there many years ago.

You can see a replica of the Parthenon, too:

https://www.nashville.gov/Parks-and-...Parthenon.aspx

The grounds of Vanderbilt University are very pretty and nearby:

https://vanderbilt.edu/

If you have time, seeing a play in Franklin, TN is really fun at this theater:

The Franklin Theatre

If you want to enjoy southern cooking that is the southern equivalent of Denny's, try:

https://www.shoneys.com/

And, of course, if you want to hear country music, the main place to go is the Grand Ole Opry:

https://www.opry.com/

And of course, for an amusement park experience, there's Opryland:

https://www.marriott.com/gaylord-hot...t-vacations.mi

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by TAM88

Will rent a car if needed. Late September trip. Not looking to go anywhere during any event weekends. Like to do a mix of nature, museums, historical sights, self exploration (walking different neighborhoods). Also enjoy bars and good food (then again, who doesn't?).

I've done Chicago, LA, SF, NO, DC and Seattle - I live in Boston.

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[WellShoneMoon]

Another vote for Montreal! I love that city.

[eureka1]

Montreal.

[luckeeesmom]

IF you like nature and art, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens is a great place to explore as well.

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

Go to Nashville, and be sure to go to the Bluebird Cafe for great live entertainment. It's a really small venue with great live artists, and it's not all country music. I lived in Nashville for about 5 years many years ago. The Bluebird Cafe was my favorite.

Home | The Bluebird Cafe

You also need to go to the Pancake Pantry mid-morning or so, if you want to see famous country artists enjoying breakfast:

https://www.thepancakepantry.com/

Country artists are very open to meeting fans, in my experience, at least when I lived there many years ago.

You can see a replica of the Parthenon, too:

https://www.nashville.gov/Parks-and-...Parthenon.aspx

The grounds of Vanderbilt University are very pretty and nearby:

https://vanderbilt.edu/

If you have time, seeing a play in Franklin, TN is really fun at this theater:

The Franklin Theatre

If you want to enjoy southern cooking that is the southern equivalent of Denny's, try:

https://www.shoneys.com/

And, of course, if you want to hear country music, the main place to go is the Grand Ole Opry:

https://www.opry.com/

And of course, for an amusement park experience, there's Opryland:

https://www.marriott.com/gaylord-hot...t-vacations.mi

[Kmanshouse]

Oregon or Maine?

If you mean Oregon, I'd wait to do that until you have more time. That's a long flight from Boston for just 3 days.

Charleston might still be pretty hot in late September.

If I'm you, I eliminate those two. As for the other 4, I'd rank as follows:

1) Toronto
2) Montreal
3) Nashville
4) Denver

[bachslunch]

You can actually see most everything worth seeing in Nashville or Charleston or Portland, ME in 3 days. You need about a week to do justice to Montreal or Toronto, about 4 days for Denver or Portland, OR without side trips.