|
Practicalities
|
|
|
The imposing Terminal Station at the foot of Cherry Street houses Macon's
visitor center
(Mon-Sat 9am-5.30pm; tel 478/743-3401 or 1-800/768-3401; it's the base for entertaining, customized two-hour
city tours
(Mon-Sat 10am & 2pm; $10).
Although a new Amtrak service is in the works, there are at present no trains to Macon. However, Greyhound provides good connections from 65 Spring St (where Little Richard is said to have written
Tutti Frutti
while washing dishes). Though motels surround the I-475/US-80 interchange, for
accommodation
you'd be better off heading
downtown
. If you want to bask in southern hospitality, you can do no better than the grand
1842 Inn
, 353 College St (tel 478/741-1842; $160-200), which throws in complimentary hors d'ouevres, as well as a full Southern breakfast in its lovely courtyard. Otherwise, there's the renovated
Crowne Plaza
, 108 First St (tel 478/746-1461; $75-100), which also has a very fine
restaurant
. The atmospheric, wood-paneled
Len Berg's
, at 240 Old Post Office Alley off Walnut Street (tel 478/742-9255), serves down-home Southern lunches at bargain prices. For a true Southern
barbecue
experience drive 45 minutes north of town to the original
Fresh Air Barbecue
, on US-23 (tel 478/775-3182): a roadside shack serving pork that's been hickory-smoked for 24 hours, along with succulent Brunswick stew and crisp coleslaw. You can hear live music at the bar/restaurant
The Rookery
, 543 Cherry St (tel 478/746-8658), and at
Riverfront Blues
, 550 Riverside Drive (tel 478/741-9970), but the most popular nightspot is the
Tic-Toc Room
, 408 Martin Luther King Blvd (tel 478/744-0123), the former stomping ground of Redding and Little Richard. Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
|
United States,
|