Savannah Tourism in spring comes alive with 15 days of music annually during the Savannah Music Festival. Here Savannah musician Ben Tucker joins Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center (2007) onstage at Johnny Mercer Theater. Photo courtesy of Savannah Music Festival.
Ben Tucker with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz
at Lincoln Center (2007).  Book early for Savannah Music Festival 2008,
March 20-April 5, 2008.
Hotel Savannah inn’s lighthearted reminder at Azalea Inn and Gardens a hotel Savannah inn in Savannah GA

Savannah Tourism:
Travel well on a little… or Indulge to Your Heart’s Content

“When the sun goes down, Savannah's history sleeps and the night comes alive with music, dining, and fun. River Street is a well-known waterfront venue for dining, drinking, and playing.”  -- Savannah Economic Development Authority

Southern author, Margaret Mitchell, of Gone with the Wind fame once described Savannah, Georgia, as the “gently mannered city by the sea.”  [Atlanta’s] [-]

“commercial activity had few attractions to Southerners who were trained to the slower pace of plantations, while its pushing, aggressive, competitive life made it distasteful to the leisured aristocrats of Savannah or Charleston,” writes TIME magazine, July 6, 1936, when Gone with the Wind was a $3 book purchase.
Azalea.Inn@comcast.net Savannah Hotel’s contact at Azalea Inn and Gardens a hotel in Savannah Georgia
toll free usa 800 / 582-3823 or
912 / 236-2707

What Do the Travel Writers Say?

"If you have time to visit only one city in the Southeast, make it Savannah. It's that special." -- Frommer’s Travel Guide

The New York Times spends 36-Hours in Savannah [-]

“New ideas join the old in the heart of the gracious South.” The feature by travel writer Shaila Dewan advises, “While certain things about Savannah never change, its budding art scene and restored historic areas offer visitors something new.” Ms. Dewan points to Telfair Mansion and Art Museum, Juliette Gordon Low's Birthplace, Bonaventure Cemetery for “what to do.” And, to Elizabeth on 37th, Back in the Day Bakery, and Desposito's for “where to eat.”

Travel writer Deborah R. Huso highlights "Savannah After Dark” [-]

“Georgia's most historic city superbly blends the old with the new"

Essence magazine recommends seductive Savannah [-]

with encouragement to "discover your fairy-tale romance.”

R. W. Apple, Jr., writes with robust enthusiasm [-]

“How lucky Savannah is!” in “Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities in the United States and Canada,” portraying the city “as sweetly seductive as ever, its beauty unblemished by newfound fame and fortune.“

American Planning Association (APA) names the Bull Street corridor [-]

Take along the camera, [-]

bring bread to feed the pigeons and squirrels in the garden squares and have a picnic breakfast with nature in Forsyth Park. In addition to the city's lush azaleas, Saucer Magnolia (Bay & Whitaker Streets), Okame Cherry (on Johnson Square), shady Oaks, lush grass, and Butterfly Magnolia dress Savannah landscapes. Thousands of bulbs and spring annuals are planted each year making a spectacular display during our St. Patrick's Day festivities.