The Four Seasons brand is growing at an incredible pace at the moment, with dozens of new properties in the pipeline. The luxury hotel brand has just opened its newest major city hotel in the United States, following the recent openings of the Four Seasons Minneapolis and Four Seasons New Orleans.
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Who’s gonna shell $1k per night in the midwest in the middle of November? Or did I miss something? Are there many HNWI going to Nashville?
I can’t understand this either, outside of special events. Those are Paris/NYC prices.
I feel like your typical Nashville goer will not be shelling out this much for a hotel. Curious to see what their occupancy rates end up being
Nashville is one of the most expensive hotel markets in the USA.
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Nashville resident here.
First, Nashville is NOT in the Midwest. It is in the South.
Second, because of country music and the healthcare business, and several other businesses there is tremendous amount of wealth in the city. That's why a few years ago BA introduced a direct flight from Nashville to LHR. Those flights always had full business class sections.
As for the hotels, the room rates are through the roof. Ten years ago a local extended stay hotel advertised its rate as $99 per week. yesterday it was $599/week.
Smyrna is a small town 30 miles south of Nashville. It is in a different county. There is a Fairfield Inn there which used to cost $60 per night. Last time a friend asked me to book a room there, it was $260 per night.
Nashville is also the capital of "bachelorette parties", so that also contributes to the very high hotel occupancy.
I encourage those of you who have never been to Nashville to come and see. You would be shocked. It is a very vibrant and very liberal city.
Just another hotel for bachelorette party chicks to share a room. 4 chicks sharing 2 queen beds trying to act like they ain't broke. "We got a room at the Four Seasons". Yeah....in a standard room. All y'all sharing one bathroom lmao.
Agreed, and same here in Fort Worth and Austin. The growth and wealth is unimaginable to those "on the coasts". What other city (besides maybe Nashvile & Austin) has had an Omni Hotel (new expansion tower planned), 2 award winning Autograph Collection hotels (Sinclair & Drover), a new build AC Hotel, a new historic Kimpton hotel (Harper), 2 independent boutique hotels (Revel & Dryce), along with 3 dozen chain hotels and an under construction Le Merdian in the last few years alone? FORT WORTH. The major centers of commerce & industry are changing fast. Stay tuned and Goldman Sachs from NY and Wells Fargo from Cali are expected to move their HQ's to DFW in the coming months along with the recently announced Catapillar from Illinois.
Again, these are opening prices, and once you calculate in a 3rd night free (will happen soon), it becomes around 700 per night. Also, Nashville is serially underrated as are Fort Worth, Austin, and numerous other places. You'd be surprised.
It's just the opening prices.....and I'm sure the local business community and industry will be happy to pay whatever to support a new luxury tower like this. Lots of HNWI live there: Nissan & Mitsubishi N. America are both based there, HCA Hospital Corp is based there, the Music Industry is based there, Dollar General is based there, along with a "mini-Hollywood" of sorts these days, and Amazon put a huge 3rd office there during the "Dual HQ" announcement of Virginia & NYC. The health care, logistics, and automotive industries have huge bases in and around there.
I see the recently opened JW Marriott Nashville has rates ranging from $350 to $500 a night this summer. Is the upcoming Four Seasons going to be really that much better to be worth 2 to 3 times the rate! Absolutely nuts what has happened to hotel room costs all over the world since the pandemic!
I've stayed at a few of these newer, city domestic Four Seasons (New Orleans, Austin, etc). What they consistently get right are
1) Fitness center, spas, and pools
2) Good in-room dining and good bars
3) Very good standard rooms
Someone going to Nashville for a leisure event or conference, and who wants to bring their spouse or kids, will pay up the extra dollar for those amenities - especially the pool. Pools are becoming more important in hotels.
Wow, that pricing is crazy. I just spent 4 nights at the Four Seasons Embarcadero in San Francisco (an amazing hotel that Ben reviewed not too long ago, in an amazing city) for $482/night. I can’t imagine paying over $1,000/night, in Nashville of all places.
Agree with many of the other opinions, these kind of hotels don't really excite me (even if prices come down significantly). I guess the growing number of local businesses in Nashville will support this hotel, but personally I don't really understand the appeal of ultra-luxury city hotels. I'll of course stay in them on points if they have reasonable redemption rates, but otherwise I don't seek them out because, unlike at a resort location, I'm generally only going to be in my hotel room to sleep at night.
Why would local stay in hotel other than staycation and special events? My question was, are there a lot of HNWI visiting Nashville. People who would actually need a hotel. I doubt exec from Japan would have a budget to stay $1k a night on business trip. Amazon travel policy is one of the worst of the tech companies. So i doubt their employees including exec will get reimbursement for $1k per night. Even if these employees from seattle are extending stays, tech bros are smart enough not to pay a thousand bucks for a hotel.
The only people who would pay is the music industry and record labels.
Nashville is growing fast. The Conrad just opened a couple months ago, so this is the second luxury hotel to a city like Lucky said that had no luxury hotels. At the pace it grows, I am sure more luxury hotels will be added in Nashville. I think Nashville is becoming the new Atlanta in the Southeast. I currently live in the Southeast though lived in New York City for about a decade.