Driving from Chicago...which hotel do you stay in on the way???

[alicenwonder99]

We have stayed in the Shoney Inn outside of Nashville and a hotel in Chattanooga (I can't think of the name right now, but it's on the National Hotel Registry). Neither one was that great.

Does anyone have a GREAT hotel they stay in with the kids on the way to WDW from Chicago? We just can't make it in one night driving.

Mary

[laceemouse]

DH gets Marriot points from his work travel and we have driven down a couple of times and stopped at a Marriot in Chatanooga. We have never had a bad stay at a Marriot, but I'm sorry I can't tell you exactly which one we stayed at. We are flying down in October for a quicky trip. I don't like to fly but this time we just don't have enough time to drive. Good luck planning your trip!

[laceemouse]

DH gets Marriot points from his work travel and we have driven down a couple of times and stopped at a Marriot in Chatanooga. We have never had a bad stay at a Marriot, but I'm sorry I can't tell you exactly which one we stayed at. We are flying down in October for a quicky trip. I don't like to fly but this time we just don't have enough time to drive. Good luck planning your trip!

[Disney_1derland]

and NONE of the hotels you will pass right off the interstate are ones I would recommend BUT....there are some decent small hotels in Murfreesboro (20 minutes south of Nashville) that are pretty much right off the interstate....there is a brand new Wingate Inn, a doubletree, a Fairfield Inn and a Ramada Ltd. It's a nice area and the hotels are mostly 2 stars but they are much cleaner/nicer than what you would see right off the interstate in Nashville. Unfortunately the decent hotels in Nashville aren't off of the interstate you will be on (I-24) they are more off of I-40.

Anyhow, check out hotels in Murfreesboro.

[McKelly]

We left at about 2 in the morning and passed through Chicago at around 4-4:30am and made it to Dalton, Georgia where there were a couple of nice hotels. We stayed in the Country Inn and Suites, we have never had a bad experience in one of these hotels. They offer a a nice complimentary breakfast as well. I believe we stayed in one just outside of Chatanooga on the way back as well.