Hotel Knoxville

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Thinking of making a weekend trip down in March to catch Lady Vols/Bama softball game and Basevols against Vandy. Do you recommend Hotel Knoxville? Looks good online and can get a pretty decent deal....any tips or reviews appreciated!
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Thinking of making a weekend trip down in March to catch Lady Vols/Bama softball game and Basevols against Vandy. Do you recommend Hotel Knoxville? Looks good online and can get a pretty decent deal....any tips or reviews appreciated!
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In a word, no
 
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It’s being renovated and the sign is a banner printed at a print shop. It’s clean from what I hear but really dated.
 
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What’s you price point and I’ll help. And what’s a hard no
 
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Like to stay in the $300 area for 2 nights if possible but don't wanna be in the ghetto....Realize probably not going o get much close to campus for that price however
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Like to stay in the $300 area for 2 nights if possible but don't wanna be in the ghetto....Realize probably not going o get much close to campus for that price however
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Let me go by there hotel Knox and look myself. I think you might get a deal around 350 or so close and safe.
 
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Just a quick search of that weekend March 20th you can get the Hilton downtown for 145 and Crowne for 125. Both are safe and walkable to campus or easy Uber ride
 
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There's a brand new Hilton Garden on Papermill that's 5 minutes west of UT. There are also about 5 other options at that exit. Hampton, Holiday Inn Express, Red Roof (older recently renovated Holiday Inn), La Quinta, and I forget the name... might be a Mariott between Northshore and Weisgarber. All of those are in a safe area about 5 miles away straight shot down I-40.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Thinking of making a weekend trip down in March to catch Lady Vols/Bama softball game and Basevols against Vandy. Do you recommend Hotel Knoxville? Looks good online and can get a pretty decent deal....any tips or reviews appreciated!
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Cumberland House on 11th st or Volunteer hotel, used to be Hilton Garden Inn on Cumberland on the strip are both fantastic, but probably sold out
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Like to stay in the $300 area for 2 nights if possible but don't wanna be in the ghetto....Realize probably not going o get much close to campus for that price however
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Hilton downtown and Crowne Plaza both are right at 130$ night and both are fantastic as well.
 
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They have really turned around the Papermill area. Great new hotels, lots of dining options. Bars close. Good spot.

Crown and Hilton for $130 are solid choices. Walk or cheap, quick ubers to the games and restaurants/Old City/etc.

Blow up Hotel Knoxville and build something practical.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Like to stay in the $300 area for 2 nights if possible but don't wanna be in the ghetto....Realize probably not going o get much close to campus for that price however
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“Ghetto”?

Things must have really changed in Knoxvegas since my days..,
 
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bigdaddy said:
I would rather stay downtown that west Knox any day.
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I'm not knocking downtown by any means, I was simply making the point that in a city like Knoxville you don't have to limit yourself to hotels in one specific area. Traffic wise Knoxville definitely isn't Nashville or Atlanta.
 
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mad4vols said:
I didn’t realize Hotel Knoxville was the old Hyatt, part of my childhood just died 😔
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Interesting. I used to work there back in the 90's when I was in college. I worked in the business center. My GF was the manager of the business center and she got me the gig. I had to be there at 6AM or something crazy. I remember when the NCAA Regionals were there, maybe '93 or '94, the CBS crew and Purdue were staying there. I met Greg Gumbel and Gene Keady...his assistant was in there a ton as that was the place to make copies and send faxes.

My sister got married in Knox in Dec. of 2017 and the rehearsal dinner was there. It was a Marriott property at the time, IIRC.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Interesting. I used to work there back in the 90's when I was in college. I worked in the business center. My GF was the manager of the business center and she got me the gig. I had to be there at 6AM or something crazy. I remember when the NCAA Regionals were there, maybe '93 or '94, the CBS crew and Purdue were staying there. I met Greg Gumbel and Gene Keady...his assistant was in there a ton as that was the place to make copies and send faxes.

My sister got married in Knox in Dec. of 2017 and the rehearsal dinner was there. It was a Marriott property at the time, IIRC.
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Those are great memories. Did they still have a restaurant on the top floor when you were there? We would go there for Sunday brunch.
 
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