Southern Sessions: Austin & Nashville Mini Break

Kick off your musical adventure in Austin, known as the Live Music Capital of the World. Your stay at the stylish Kimpton Hotel Van Zandt puts you within easy reach of Rainey Street's buzzing bars and food trucks. A guided Live Music Crawl carries you through some of the city's best loved venues, where blues, country and rock and roll spill out onto the street until the early hours. By day, wander the shores of Lady Bird Lake or tuck into the city's famous breakfast tacos. Austin has a rhythm all its own.

Your journey reaches its crescendo in Nashville, Music City itself, where three nights at the buzzing Virgin Hotels put you right in the thick of things. Step inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and take a tour of the historic RCA Studio B, where icons from Elvis Presley to Dolly Parton once recorded some of country music's most beloved songs. Come evening, take your seat at the legendary Grand Ole Opry for a night of live performances in the very venue that helped shape the genre. Wander Broadway's neon soaked honky tonks, sample Nashville's famous hot chicken, and let the city's music carry you long into the night.