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Great post w/lots of good info. We'll be in Savannah for one day next week with two little ones. Planning on having lunch at Mrs Wilkes and dinner at Lady & Sons (are we going to be stuffed or what!?!). I'm considering the Old Trolley (name?) tour after lunch and then picking one or two houses to tour. Any suggestions? We would prefer doing things that are all close together so we don't have to keep driving from place to place. Is Savannah pretty spread out or should we be able to park once and then enjoy the day?

Oh, just started Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and it is getting me so excited to see Savannah - it seems like a truly unique place to visit!!

Savannah is fairly compact, at least the Historic District is. We did not use the car the entire time we were there.
It is the Old Town Trolley Tours.
I have one of their fans-
www.historictours.com
1.800.868.7482
Have fun!

Scarlett - Just wanted to let you know I love your screen name . . . every time I read a post from you I hear it in my head w/a slow southern drawl!!!!

Oh Noooooo , don't tell me you are hearing my voice in your head!!

Thank you ~

Midwestgal, if you are doing Wilkes for lunch, then Lady & Sons for dinner, BE SURE to eat that lunch as early as possible, and the dinner as late as possible. You will feel like the Thanksgiving turkey, but it will be worth it! I LOVE Lady & Sons......... And, yes, don't you LOVE Scarlett's name........ I plan to name my next girlie puppy that in honor of the original in "Gone With The Wind."

P.S.: Midwestgal, and just coffee for breakfast that day!

I know!! We plan on getting to Mrs Wilkes at 10:45 since they start lunch at 11:00 (don't you have to wait in a line outside to be seated?). I told my husband they'll be serving a lot of the same food at our lunch & dinner but it's family style (Wilkes) then buffet (Lady) so you can choose different options. However he's such a fried chicken fan he's thrilled to have it twice in one day!!!

At Lady's, be sure to get a side order of Fried Green Tomatoes...... they're not on the buffet. We always order the buffet there since it has so much heavenly on it, and then do the side order. Eating there is like being a pig in a mud puddle! It doesn't get any better....... Have a wonderful time!

The big confession in that book is utter nonsense thus the thing is fiction with lots of factual color.

Read it for fun but don't even dream that you understand the case on which it is based.

Follow the suggestions here and you will have gotten a nice, tourist's eye view of Savannah but you won't know much about it, either.

If that's enough for you -- and well it might be as the face Savannah presents to tourists is an interesting, pleasant one -- great. But, if you wish to be a traveller instead of a tourist, you'll have to dig deeper.

This thread is more than a year old, and Scarlett's moved to the Northwest.

I always wonder how people come across old threads without noticing how old they are and feel compelled to respond.

Cassandra, the thread might be old but the information can still be helpful.

Topping this for mrace.

Scarlett, just read all the threads for Scarlett goes to Savannah - thanks so much for all these great ideas! can't wait to go!

Great! Glad to be of help~

MariaRandolphStevens = My, but this year-old threat touched a chord. Why bother topping (resurrecting from the long-buried, and which a lot of folks found very useful for quite a while) something with which you have such disagreement? THE book has been around a long time....and there's been little disagreement about its "facts."

But if you want Savannah visitors to 'dig deeper,' then, in the Fodors spirit of sharing knowledge, you might just do so...?