DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Memphis Downtown

“Great hotel, great location”

Stayed here whilst visiting Memphis. This wasn’t the hotel we booked initially, as our booked hotel closed prior to us going. We arrived and were checked in without any problems. We got breakfast included. With this, you need to get vouchers from reception for each day you have breakfast. This lets… more

Stayed here whilst visiting Memphis. This wasn’t the hotel we booked initially, as our booked hotel closed prior to us going. We arrived and were checked in without any problems. We got breakfast included. With this, you need to get vouchers from reception for each day you have breakfast. This lets you get the Delta Sunrise breakfast. If you get anything else and it costs more, then you just pay the difference. The hotel is located across the road from The Peabody Hotel, if you want to go and watch the daily duck walk. Beale Street is about a 5-minute walk away and the Civil Rights museum, where Dr Martin Luther King was shot, is around 15 – 20 minutes away. Rooms are cleaned daily. Hotel was nice with a great location. Rooms were a decent size and were clean throughout. Staff were great. We visited Graceland, as most people who visit Memphis do, and we asked reception to book a cab to get us there. We got a bloke called Ray, from “Bumming a ride transportation”. He is a self-employed cab driver. Lovely fellow. He dropped us off and picked us up. Fare was around $35 dollars each way from memory. On picking us up he took us on a little detour and showed us where Elvis was originally buried prior to his final resting place at Graceland. He also showed us the house where Elvis’s dad moved after he re-married, together with the house where the partner of Elvis lived after he was divorced from Pricilla. I didn’t see this information whilst walking around Graceland, so it was nice of Ray to show us around. It is possible if we didn’t get Ray, we might not have known about any of it. Ray took us to the airport for our onward flight. The fare was about $45. On arriving in Memphis, we went to the taxi rank at the airport. We waited for about 20 minutes before a taxi came. So, if you are waiting one will come along. Might take a while though. On the day we were booked for Graceland, our time slot was 10:30am. My advice is to book the earliest slot you can. It took us all day to go around the house and museum. There are a few places to eat on site. The tour we done was a self-guided audio tour. This takes you round the house and grounds giving you information as you go on an iPad mini. The tour doesn’t include any of the upstairs. This is off limits due to the personal nature of the rooms. The amount of information and exhibits is vast. I learnt a lot of things about Elvis throughout the day. Believe me when I say that you need a full day to make the most of all the exhibits.

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