 Discover Memphis
Memphis
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Introducing Memphis
Memphis Travel Guide is written to provide useful tips to budget travelers planning a visit to Memphis, Tennessee, USA. You can find here information for going to Memphis as well as for exploring it on your own. I write this to share the information with fellow budget travelers. I also list here the places of interest in Memphis that you might want to visit.
About Memphis
Memphis is the largest city in Tennessee, and the third largest in the Southeast United States. The city has a population of about 670,000, within a metropolitan area of 1,281,000 people. It is the second largest metropolitan in Tennessee after Nashville.
Guide to Memphis TN Hotels
Here's a list of hotels in Memphis TN that you can book online, with full description, star rating, address, location map, evaluation, and prices as offered by different booking sites. This helps you to make your room booking with the site that offers the best price.
Hernando de Soto Bridge, between West Memphis, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee
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More on Memphis TN
Memphis is the youngest of the four major cities of Tennessee, the others being Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga. The city is located on a buff rising from the Mississippi River. It was a site of a Chickasaw Native American settlement when Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto arrived there in the 16th century.
The city of Memphis was founded by John Overton, James Winchester and Andrew Jackson in 1819. As it was located beside a mighty river, it was named Memphis after the ancient Egyptian city beside the Nile. Due to its location high above the Mississippi River, Memphis was flood free, making it ideal for a transportation hub. Memphis had the only railroad across the southern states to be constructed before the Civil War.
By the turn of the 20th century, Memphis had become the largest market for cotton and hardwood lumber. In the 1950's, it also had the largest mule market in the world. The city was a base for the civil rights movement. It was also in Memphis that Martin Luther King, Jr., was assissinated, on 4 April, 1968.
Memphis is itched into the American culture as the hotbed for music, having produced numerous musical greats such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, and more.
Graceland, home of the late musical legend, Elvis Presley, in Memphis, Tennessee
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Budget Travel to Memphis
By Plane
Memphis International Airport is the world's busiest cargo airport, being the primary distribution center for FedEx. It is also a hub for Delta Airlines, which controls 90% of all air passenger traffic passing through the airport.
To leave the airport, you have the option of taking the taxi or limousine or renting a car. There are also shuttle services for hire, if you come in a group. These can be prearrange.
Taxi
The taxi booth is at the Terminal B baggage claim area on the ground floor. The approximate far to downtown Memphis is $30.00.
Car Rental
Here are some of the car rental companies. The companies are located outside the airport. You can use the courtesy phones within the baggage claim area to contact them, and they will send a courtesy shuttle to fetch you. As the rental charges different company to company, check around.
- Alamo Phone: (901) 345 0070, (800) 462 5266
- Avis Phone: (901) 345 6129, (800) 577 1521
- Budget Phone: (901) 398 8888, (800) 527 0700
- Dollar Phone: (901) 346 3290, (800) 434 2226
- Enterprise Phone: (901) 396 3736, (877) 283 0898
- Hertz Phone: (901) 345 5680, (800) 654 3131
- National Car Rental Phone: (901) 345 0070, (888) 501 9010
- Thrifty Phone: (901) 345 0170, (877) 283 0898
Tennessee Welcome Sign on the Hernando de Soto Bridge
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By Road
Interstate 40 and 55 are the two highways to Memphis. Parking in Memphis is usually free outside of downtown.
By Train
Amtrak has a service going up and down the Mississippi, from Chicago to New Orleans, passing through Memphis.
Budget Travel within Memphis
The most practical way to move about Memphis is to drive, as the bus service in the city is quite inadequate.
Business in Memphis
The city of Memphis enjoys a strategic central location in the state of Tennessee which greatly benefits business development in the area. Memphis International Airport is the busiest cargo airport on the globe and the city is also home to a wide variety of industries how have chosen Memphis office space as their base of operations.
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Accommodation in Memphis
- Look for Hotel Rooms in Memphis
Helping you compare room rates from different online booking sites.
- Look for Youth Hostels
View list of youth hostels with online booking.
Places of Interest in Memphis
- Beale Street
Historic street in Memphis.
- W.C. Handy's Home
Museum exhibiting the memorabilia of the person known as "Father of the Blues".
- AutoZone Park
Stadium of the Memphis Redbirds baseball team.
- Peabody Hotel
Landmark hotel in Memphis.
- National Civil Rights Museum
Museum that was once the motel where Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
- Memphis Rock-n-Soul Museum
Museum that fuses history and race with music with outstanding success.
- Mud Island
Island with the Mississippi River Museum, with exhibits ranging from steamboat replica to Native American artifacts.
- Cednter for Southern Folklore
A place to view and appreciate everything Southern.
- Sun Studio
Studio where some of the most famous musicians in the world have recorded.
- Graceland
Estate of the late Elvis Presley
- Full Gospel Tabernacle Church
Church led by Reverend Al Green who left a successful recording career to lead a church.
Get a GPS and never get lost again!
Avoid charges for overweight luggage! Get a luggage scale for your trip.
Prepare for your trip!
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