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What a trip to Nashville costs

A week in Nashville for eight people works out around $9,400 before flights — $258 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $81 per adult per day for food. From Atlanta and Chicago it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

The center of the American country music industry, home to the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, with live music along Broadway's honky-tonks.

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What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$1,810	$2,270	$4,070	$1,020
8 people	$4,860	$4,540	$9,400	$1,170
12 people	$6,650	$6,800	$13,500	$1,120

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Nashville compares

NashvilleCities median of 7All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Nashville runs $264 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 10% below the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the 15th cheapest of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 36% above the typical city ($195), the 2nd most expensive of 7 cities.

Its season swings 14% between its cheapest and most expensive months, against 32% for the typical city. Dates move the bill less here than they do for most cities.
Cities are generally cheapest in June, but the low here falls in January.
It is above the all-library median for 5 months of the year and below it for the other 7 — so whether it counts as an expensive destination depends entirely on when you go.
The same week costs $258 more in September than in January on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
Driving beats four seats from Atlanta and Chicago. The longest of those is Chicago — 480 road miles and 8.3h each way, saving $567 against four seats.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in January, at $1,806 for the whole property — $2,064 for the same week in September.
The sharpest single step is between October and November: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $258.
The closest thing to it on price is Naples, FL, a beach town: $9,739 for a week for eight against $9,396 here, 4% apart — the same money for a completely different trip.

When to go

Nashville is at its most expensive in September and cheapest in January — a 14% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$258
February	$258
March	$258
April	$258
May	$258
June	$258
July	$258
August	$258
September	$295
October	$295
November	$258
December	$258

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$359	3.3h	$396	4.9h	driving
Chicago	$324*	3.7h	$729	8.3h	driving
Dallas	$220*	4.1h	$1,093	11.9h2 days	flying
Denver	$244*	5.0h	$1,715	18.3h2 days	flying
Los Angeles	$450*	8.4h	$3,005	31.9h4 days	flying
New York	$298*	4.4h	$1,312	14.2h2 days	flying
Seattle	$608*	8.7h	$3,304	35.1h4 days	flying
Phoenix	$508*	5.9h	$2,428	25.8h3 days	flying

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. * published DOT average for that airport pair. Others are modeled from distance. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,089 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.