Any suggestions for lodging in downtown Nashville? Location is always important to us, close enough to walk to Broadway. Price range $150 to $200.
Thanks,

I guess I want the downtown area. We'd like to walk to locations where the music is. I know there is music everywhere but looking where most is.

The honky-tonks are concentrated around Lower Broadway, basically between the river and 5th Avenue. That's kind of the epicenter for most tourists.

There are plenty of hotels within walking distance, but you may have trouble finding one in that price range. Nashville has had a tourism boom in the last several years, and because hotels take awhile to get constructed, there's a shortage of rooms. So prices are high. I can't recommend specific hotels from personal experience (since I live here), but anywhere in the downtown core should be fine: south of the Capitol and north of the convention center, between the river and Rosa Parks/8th Avenue. Don't stay at the hotels just across the river; there's a reason they're cheap.

The trendy neighborhoods (eg East Nashville, the Gulch, 12 South) currently have few if any hotels. This one just opened in the Gulch and looks to be doing an intro rate through January, if you can stretch your budget a bit.

http://www.thompsonhotels.com/hotels...shville/offers

If you don't have luck finding a hotel downtown and have to go to the suburbs, I'd try these areas in order of preference. Make sure and budget for parking downtown, or cab/rideshare.

1. Green Hills - traffic is bad but the area has high-end shopping, the Bluebird Cafe; closest "suburb" to downtown
2. Brentwood/Maryland Farms - about 20 minutes from downtown outside of rush hour straight up I-65. Plenty of chain hotels, decent restaurant options.
3. Cool Springs - further out but also a straight shot on I-65. Good if you plan to spend any time in Franklin.
4. Bellevue - not the most exciting area, but hotels may be cheaper here than the others, and it's perfectly fine. Straight shot to downtown via I-40.

I can get a good rate at the Holiday Inn Express, Downtown. Does that fall into the category that is not so good. Reviews were good. They provide a shuttle and we are walkers. the other one I was going to look at is the Hilton Garden Downtown or Hampton downtown.

I think that location is fine (I have no knowledge of the hotel itself, so I'd trust the reviews there). The Hampton or the HGI would be a somewhat better location (closer to restaurants, etc), but if the difference in rates is large the Holiday Inn Express would be fine. It's just a bit longer walk to anything you'd want to see, but still only under 10 minutes to the honky-tonks on a sidewalked main thoroughfare. And if you plan to spend much time in the Gulch area, the HIE is actually better for that.