Romantic Hotels in Nashville for Couples: Four Picks

The Hermitage Hotel opened in 1910 at Sixth Avenue North and Union Street and is the only hotel in Tennessee designated a National Historic Landmark. It is also described as the last commercial Beaux-Arts building in the state, with a painted glass ceiling over the lobby. Its guests give it 9.6 out of 10, the best score of the four. For an anniversary, I would pick it over the newer towers: the restaurant, Drusie & Darr, is run by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and the hotel holds two Michelin Keys. Its one real drawback for a summer trip is that it has no pool at all.

The Joseph, at 401 Korean Veterans Boulevard in SoBro, puts its bar, Denim, on the 21st floor around a rooftop pool with private cabanas, a living green wall and views over the Cumberland River. Rose, its 5,500-square-foot spa and salon, starts every treatment with a rose-scented foot soak. Lower Broadway is two blocks away, close enough to walk to a show, far enough for the street noise to drop. Parking is valet only. I would book it for a warm-weather weekend when the pool deck matters more than period architecture, in a high room facing the river.

1 Hotel Nashville, at 710 Demonbreun Street, opened in 2021 with 215 rooms over 18 floors. Its Bamford Wellness Spa was named Tennessee's Best Hotel Spa at the World Spa Awards in 2024 and again in 2025, which makes it my pick for a weekend built around massages rather than bars. The hotel holds a Michelin Key and runs Harriet's Rooftop, with Sunset Sessions on Saturday evenings from 6 pm. Couples travelling with a dog are welcome too, up to two dogs per room. There is no pool, so it suits a cooler season best. Parking here is by valet.

Omni Nashville Hotel is joined to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum by a connection that runs over three levels, so a rainy afternoon in the museum needs no umbrella and no taxi. Its rooftop pool deck has cabanas and a whirlpool, and the Mokara Spa has treatment rooms set up for couples. Parking is by valet, and the hotel sends self-parkers to the Music City Center garage next door. With 914 guest reviews and a 9.2 score, it is the most reviewed of the four. It is also the biggest and busiest, a convention hotel by design: I would choose it for convenience, not intimacy.

If downtown is not what you want, two small hotels outside it are worth a look, outside the four on this page. The Germantown Inn occupies a Federal-style house from 1865 in Germantown, just north of downtown, with six presidential suites, plus four rooms in a Carriage House added in 2018; guests rate it 9.6 out of 10 over 93 reviews. The Russell, in East Nashville across the river, is a former Presbyterian church built in 1904, with 23 rooms and its original stained glass, and a share of every stay goes to local homelessness charities. Guests give it 9.5 over 238 reviews.