Tennessee Road Trip Planning

January 11, 2009

Well hear it is shortly after we returned from our weekend in the Wisconsin Dells Eva and I are talking about a vacation in Tennessee. We had talked about doing this trip for a long time. It took a few days for us to pick the dates and request the time off from our jobs. The official date of travel will be March 21 to 26, 2009. We decided to spend most of the time in the Smokey Mountain Area near Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.

January 19, 2009

After setting the dates for our travel I started to email all of the state and cities Convention & Visitors Bureau for information on there areas and stopped at AAA motor club for maps and tour books. In about a week I started receiving information from all the area we would be traveling. Now the long but fun task of reading through all the books, brochures and searching web sight to decide on our itinerary. We already know we want to stop one night on the drive to Tennessee and then spend several nights in the Smokey Mountain area and then stop one night on the way back home.


January 27, 2009

We have been making some quick progress in out Tennessee road trip planning. We started looking at hotels in the Gatlinburg area and found some nice places to stay but after looking at a few web sights on cabin rentals it was a better bargain to rent a cabin than a hotel. There were two places we were deciding on Cabins USA http://www.cabinsusagatlinburg.com/ and Hartland Rentals http://www.heartlandrentals.com/ both places had many good choice and styles of cabins and it was hard to narrow it down. We thought we had the place picked out at Cabins USA. If you make your reservations on line you get a discount. Eva tried several time to book the place but the web sight would not let the reservation go though. Eva also tried calling. There reason for the problems was that they were making changes to there web sight and the lady answering the phone was new so she did not know how to handle some of the issues. Between the web sight and phone calls it was not working out. The cabins were booking up fast and we did not want to loose out on a place we really liked so we decided to book with our other choice of Hartland rentals. We had no problems with them. The booking went through and Eva got the confirmation shortly after.

A few days later we booked our hotel in Corbin Kentucky for our first night stop over. http://www.corbinkytourism.com/ Our itinerary is starting to come together now and we have our first two places book and confirmed.