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06-28-2022 09:36 AM
After seeing the movie Elvis. I would like to visit Graceland. Any advice. Direct flights? Hotels? Tours. I noticed that none of the Washington DC- Baltimore airports have direct flights or I should say... I would have to change planes. Not likely to want to do this with all the horror stories I have been reading about airports. I don't want to drive. We on in northern maryland, 60 miles from Baltmore and 60 miles from DC.
06-28-2022 10:02 AM
@bonnielu wrote:After seeing the movie Elvis. I would like to visit Graceland. Any advice. Direct flights? Hotels? Tours. I noticed that none of the Washington DC- Baltimore airports have direct flights or I should say... I would have to change planes. Not likely to want to do this with all the horror stories I have been reading about airports. I don't want to drive. We on in northern maryland, 60 miles from Baltmore and 60 miles from DC.
@bonnielu American has regular nonstop flights from Reagan National (DCA) into and out of Memphis. My husband and I dated long distance between DC and Memphis before getting married. I lived in Memphis for 26 years and never visited Graceland.
The blocks just north and south of the property are nice, they built a new hotel on site and there's a museum across the street. The surrounding area doesn't offer much in the way of shopping or dining. I would stay downtown or in midtown if I was planning to do anything more than visit Graceland. Enjoy your visit.
06-28-2022 10:17 AM
06-28-2022 10:43 AM - last edited on 07-03-2022 11:21 AM by Kim-QVC
I have never been to Graceland. The closest I got was driving by it.
Looked up Graceland tours and found this -
Know Before You Go
Have no idea about traveling to Graceland and not driving. Maybe there is a bus tour.
06-28-2022 01:13 PM
Around the year 2000 I was on a business trip, and my boss had us go to Graceland. I probably still have the sweatshirt I bought there LOL, but I remember the home as being rather dark inside. I was a Buyer for a large number of hotels at that time, and we were traveling via a company plane. About 30 miles from Graceland was Tunica, Mississippi where we had a meeting at one of the casinos. (that was a fun job!) Anyway @bonnielu if you visit Graceland and want more to do in the area, you might want to look up Tunica.
06-28-2022 03:40 PM
Bonnie, I just want to say as a fellow Marylander, we visited Graceland in 1997, and I have been on many tours before but Graceland is my fave. And I was never an Elvis fan. But the tour is wonderful from the house which is as is from when he died, to the basement memorabilia to the airplane and to seeing the family graves in the back yard, enjoy!! We drove there, also went to Nashville and Atlanta and Myrtle Beach. . It was very crowded when we were there because it was the 20th anniv of his death.
06-28-2022 03:49 PM
I went there when I visited my father and his wife, after they had moved to Alabama.
Consequently, I don't have info on flying there and hotels, etc, just for that, as we drove there from their house.
What I AM glad we did was to take the tour that had you seeing everything. At least back when I went, they had different packages that allowed you to tour just different bits. We did the whole thing.
It was kind of like touring Hearst Castle. I did that many years before and was also glad I did a complete tour so as to see everything instead of just parts of it. (I couldn't remember that name and had to look it up. d'oh!)
What was the oddest thing for me was that the mansion is really not all that large. Many of the rooms seemed pretty small. But it was very cool to see everything.
To the right, if you are looking at the front of the house, are the graves. I remember always thinking that Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron, but on the grave it is spelled 'Aaron'. Oddly, that's one weird thing I recall.
I took so many pictures I was in pain and that was before I got decrepit. I'm glad, though. I should dig them up. Would be fun to revisit them.
06-28-2022 04:46 PM
It is only the first floor and the basement that is open for tours, the upstairs is sealed off to guests. Lots of shag green carpet!!
06-28-2022 06:43 PM
06-28-2022 08:20 PM
@bonnielu- If you belong to AAA, check with them. A travel agent may be able to find you a non-stop flight.
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