Did you happen to visit Tootsie's lavender lounge??
Nope, didn't go in. In fact I don't recall seeing the sign even?
I was stopped at the light and snapped a pic for our next trip. Which we are already planning!! Next time we are going to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Grand Ole Opry and do the General Jackson River Boat while we are in Nashville. We truely had a blast in Tennesse!!
Although I think I left half my life savings there as well.
As for the Opryland Hotel, we checked on the prices before we left. It was a holiday weekend and the prices I think were over $200 a night. We stayed basically across the street for less than $70! In fact the Opryland Hotel charged $16.00 just to park on their lot.
We parked at the Opry Mills mall and walked through the garden path over to the hotel. It was cloudy when we got out of the car. As soon as we started walking it started pouring down rain!! We stopped under a small cover and waited about 15 minutes and it never let up so we decided to GO FOR IT!! Yeah, we got soaked!!
We walked in and all these $$$ people were looking at my wife and I like we just dropped off a spaceship or something. As we walked by some people I pointed at the water by the boat ride and said, "Man that water was not bad, a little deep though!!"