Memphis hotel recommendations needed

Anyone either specific hotels or general areas of town to recommend and/or avoid?

Thanks!!

I'd stay there. Ducks are cute!

http://www.peabodymemphis.com/

I enjoyed it!

go there and tell me all about it.

I stayed there on a business trip and as I recall it was a decent hotel in terms of amenities and services and it does have the cute little duck parade. It's convenient to the Rendezvous if you're interested in getting some Memphis BBQ.

pretty good too. The duck parade is a blast.

You know they march in to "Stars and Stripes Forever" aka "Be Kind to Your Web Footed Friends"

Or stay at the Raddison which is right next to the Peabody. Be sure to go accros the street to the Rendevous for ribs!

I'm staying at a 4 star hotel overlooking Fort Lauderdale Beach for $59 per day.

:hi:

So you can run in and buy me a tacky souvenir to add to the collection....}(

i'm going to graceland! :bounce:

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damn - that would be GREAT. :( you sure you can't?

:-(

It's down at the end of Lonely St.

loved it!

:)

i would stay at gold strike or horseshoe if i could get a suite, so i guess my "area of town" to recommend is robinsonville

never seen graceland and proud of it!

to be as Memphis is very large and spread out and traffic is gnarly. Peabody is downtown, and the Rendezvous is also, along with other good places to eat etc.

Graceland is out a bit from town.

Now I am trying to remember some of the good places I ate when I went there.

for Italian: Coletta's or Grisanti's, definitely. Both are awesome

also I found a weblink for a place I used to LOVE: Paulette's, which was also featured in "The Firm"
http://www.paulettes.net/ I hope it is still open...they bring you a basket of hot fresh popovers the second you sit down and their food is very good.

the Peabody, Raddison (accross the street) and Crowne Plaza are all convienent.

There are also quite a few convient budget motels on the other side of the expressway (on or just off Union Ave).

Robinsonville/Tunica is good if your gambling -- Goldstrike & Grand Casino have good quality inexpensive rooms.

Figure out where you are going to be, and stay near there. Memphis is a large city geographically, and it can take an hour to communte from one side to the other with NO traffic -- during the week a 2 hour commute from one end to another is easily within reason.

Finally, if you are doing a bit of everything (downtown, Tunica, Graceland, etc), the airport is very central, so look for something nearby.