Take the Sense of Travel Adventure All the Way to Your Bedroom!

Most readers out there have stayed in a hotel. And all of those “mosts” would give the same description of the predictable experience; Glass doors slide open into a large lobby area with sofa seating and a check-in desk; Push the button in the elevator that corresponds to the first digit on the room key and voila…. home for the night!

Yet vacation planners seek excitement in travel, adventurous itineraries, sights never seen before and challenges yet to tackle. Why is it we settle for the predictable mundane in hotel accommodations? Well, I guess there could be a myriad of unmentionable unpleasantries to encounter in hotel rooms of unknown reputation. Let’s not go there.

But let’s not go the ho-hum route again either. Rather than taking in the febreeze scented carpet, hard granite counter and perhaps the “homemade” cookies “fresh from the oven”… take in a rainforest habitat instead! Enter the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville! Yes, enter a controlled tropical climate enhanced by the soothing swoosh of the waterfalls from above and the lilting hum of the gondola driver serenading guests over the river system. Traverse wooden bridges that not only transport from shop to shop but that transport the mind and spirit to calming places. Stroll the elevated walkways that showcase the tropical gardens below. You may think you never want to leave this place to go to your room. But then, your room has a balcony overlooking this paradise, all under the glassed atrium. The rainforest? Yes. But it doesn’t rain. And it doesn’t disappoint. Try the Gaylord Opryland. It is like no other hotel. Be forewarned though, your accommodation expectations will never be ho-hum again.