Vanderbilt / Midtown · Nashville, TN$$
Graduate by Hilton Nashville
✦ Sky & Swim Pick
The pool
- 12th-floor pool at White Limozeen
- Nashville skyline
- May–September
- Reservation required for everyone
Why it's on the list
The 12th-floor pool belongs to White Limozeen, the rooftop bar, rather than to the hotel — which means a reservation is required for everyone, including guests staying downstairs. Worth the planning: the bar program is better than it needs to be, and the downtown skyline reads as a clean, low-horizon Nashville silhouette that earns the elevation.
The stay
The Graduate is the fun one — a twelve-story, 205-room hotel that opened in 2020 on West End across from Vanderbilt, running maximalist Nashville design from lobby to roof: Poindexter's all-day café, an animatronic-critter karaoke bar at street level, and full Dolly Parton worship at White Limozeen up top. Midtown is a deliberate trade — the Vanderbilt end of town instead of a room above the honky-tonks, with Lower Broadway a short ride away. At $$ it's one of Nashville's better values — book it for the kitsch done this well and the pink rooftop, and plan ahead: the pool needs a White Limozeen reservation even for hotel guests.
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