Atlanta, Georgia
Music Heritage Of The South
ULTIMATE ROAD TRIPS TO THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN MUSIC
DAY 1 – ARRIVAL
- Airport meeting, check-in to hotel
(La Quinta Inn & Suites, Douglasville - Standard tour
Hyatt Place, Atlanta Galleria - Luxury tour)
- dinner
Standard and Luxury tour details
Travel time: up to 1 hour
Travel time: up to 1.5 hours
DAY 2 – JAT-LAG REST AND SHOPPING*
- Breakfast
- Initial meeting of the group
- “Gone with the wind” museum visit, Marietta
- Music equipment shopping (optional)
- Lunch and coffee break
- Stone Mountain park or Gold Mine museum in Villa Rica visit
- Shopping
- Dinner/blues bar visit
- to hotel for overnight
(La Quinta Inn & Suites, Douglasville - Standard tour
Hyatt Place, Atlanta Galleria - Luxury tour)
*this day will be light in activities and could be used as a spare day for late arrival of delayed flights without airport meeting.
DAY 3 – START OF THE TOUR
- Breakfast
- Start of the tour
- Talladega Super speedway museum
- Lunch (around Birmingham AL)
- visit to Jesse Owens Museum
- Florence, Alabama - W. C Handy home and museum
- Sheffield, Al - Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
- Muscle Shoals, AL - FAME recording studio tour
- Dinner
- Hotel for overnight
(Hampton Inn, Florence, AL - Standard tour
Marriott Shoals Spa, Florence, AL - Luxury tour)
DAY 4 - ALABAMA TO MEMPHIS, TN
- Tuscumbia, AL - Alabama Music Hall Of Fame
- Natchez Trace Parkway to Tupelo, MS
- Tupelo, Automobile Museum
- Tour of the Birth house of Elvis Presley
- Shopping in Western store, Olive Branch, MS
- Arrival in hotel
- Dinner and fun at the Beale street
- Hotel (La Quinta Inn & Suites, Southaven, MS - Standard Tour;
Home2 Suites by Hilton Memphis-Southaven - Luxury tour)
Travel time: up to 4 hours
Travel time: up to 3.5 hours
DAY 5 – MEMPHIS
- Breakfast
- Sun Records Studio Tour
- Gibson guitar factory tour
- Rock and Soul museum
- Lunch
- National Civil Rights Museum
- (Alternative) visit to Graceland (tickets not provided for Standard tour)
- Stax museum
- W.C. Handy house and Museum
- Dinner/Beale street
- Return to hotel
(La Quinta Inn & Suites, Southaven, MS - Standard Tour;
Home2 Suites by Hilton Memphis-Southaven - Luxury tour)
Travel time: up to 1 hour
DAY 6 – MEMPHIS TO CLARKSDALE
- Visit to Memphis Minnie grave site
- Visit to Tunica welcome center and museum
- Visit to Delta Cultural Center and King Biscuit Radio tour
in West Helena AR
- Lunch
- Stop at Stovall Plantation
- Visit to Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, MS
- Other activities in Clarksdale (Crossroad)
- Blues and rock museum, Clarksdale, MS
- Dinner at Ground zero blues club
- Hotel (Ground zero apartments or alternative location - Standard tour
Gold Strike Casino Resort - Robinsonville, MS - Luxury tour - note: no free breakfast)
Day 7 – DELTA
- Breakfast
- Tutwiller to visit Sonny Boy Williamson II grave site
- Cleveland - attend Baptist church service (live Gospel)
- Visit to Dockery farms
- Visit to Robert Johnson grave site in Greenwood
- Visit to Elmore James grave site (alternative)
- Return to Indianola
- Dinner in Indianola (Club Ebony or alternative location)
- Hotel for overnight (Hampton Inn, Indianola - Standard tour
Belmont Plantation, Greenville, MS - Luxury tour)
Travel time: up to 2 hours
Travel time: up to 4 hours
Day 8 – DELTA
- Breakfast
- Leland – visit to Highway 61 museum
(option- Jim Hanson museum - no tickets provided)
- Greenville (optional)
- Charlie Patton grave site visit
- Indianola
- Visit BB King museum and his resting
place
- Visit to Blue Front Café
- Drive to Vicksburg
- Visit to Coca Cola museum
- Visit to Vicksburg National Cemetery
- Dinner
- Hotel for overnight
(Fairfield Inn, Vicsburg, MS - Standard tour
Ameristar Casino Hotel Vicksburg - Luxury tour;
note: no free breakfast)
Travel time: up to 2.5 hours
Day 9 – DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS
- Breakfast
- Robert Johnson Museum visit
- Robert Johnson birthplace
- Lunch
- Slidell, LA
- Check in hotel (Candlewood Suites, Slidell Northshores - Standard tour
Wingate by Wyndham, Slidell - Luxury tour)
- Evening in New Orleans/dinner
- Return to hotel for overnight
Day 10 – NEW ORLEANS TO GULF SHORES AL
- Breakfast
- Visit to museums/city tour with a guide
- Lunch
- Gulf Shores, AL
- Check in hotel (Holiday Inn Express, Gulf Shores, AL - standard tour
Hilton Garden Inn Orange Beach Beachfront - Luxury tour)
- Dinner
- Return to hotel for overnight
Day 11 – GULF SHORES AL TO COLUMBUS GA
- Breakfast
- Morning on the coast
- Lunch
- Montgomery AL
- Visit to various places in Montgomery (Rosa Parks museum, Hank Williams museum)
- Stop at Commodores Record Studio, on the way to Columbus, GA
- Hotel (Holiday Inn, Columbus - Standard tour
The Hyatt Place Columbus - Luxury tour)
Day 12 – MACON TO ATLANTA
- Breakfast
- visit to Ma Rainey house and museum, her grave nearby
- Macon GA
- Lunch in H&H
- Tour in Macon (Allman Brothers Band museum, cemetery,
guided tour in Macon)
- Drive back to overnight hotel (Dinner along the way)
(La Quinta Inn & Suites, Douglasville - Standard tour
Hyatt Place, Atlanta Galleria - Luxury tour)
Travel time: up to 4.5 hours
Travel time: up to 3 hours
Travel time: up to 5 hours
Travel time: up to 4 hours
Day 13 – END OF THE TOUR
- Breakfast
- End of the Tour meeting
- Transport to the airport
Luxury tour includes free access to wi-fi during the trip (with some limitations) and luxury hotels. Luxury hotels are listed in standard tour as alternative hotel.
Elite tour includes hotels by the choice, unlimited wi-fi access in our vehicle, alternative activities, casinos, private fly-overs in Atlanta, reservation of the restaurants and limo services by request. Elite tours might include third party providers.
