Middle Tennessee · Central Time
August mornings: reserve a private Nashville hot air balloon ride for two
This trip gives you two nights in Nashville, from Thursday, August 5, 2027, to Saturday, August 7, 2027, in a room at a small inn or hotel in town for the two of you. Friday, August 6, 2027, is set aside for a private Nashville hot air balloon ride for two at sunrise, with no other travelers sharing the basket for about an hour in the air. The trip starts when you check in. Send your dates and the office asks the balloon company and the lodging for space, then answers with a quote to read over at home.
From $980 per person, double occupancy, flight included, lodging tax extra
- Dates
- August 5 to 7, 2027
- Stay
- Two nights
- Flight
- August 6, sunrise
- Leave at
- 4:55 a.m. CT
Down I-65 to Franklin before first light
Friday, August 6, 2027, begins in the dark. You leave the lodging at 4:55 a.m. Central Time and head south on I-65, a drive of 30 minutes, to Franklin, where the office plans your meeting with the balloon company for 5:28 a.m. Central Time, thirty minutes before sunrise at 5:58 a.m. Central Time. Every time on this page is Central Time, one hour behind Pembroke Pines, where the office keeps Eastern Time. On the wet grass you watch the balloon spread out and fill as the sky turns from gray to pale gold. The pilot reads the wind and decides whether the flight goes. If it does, you lift over summer pastures, cut hay fields and creek bottoms holding a thin mist, while fence lines and barn roofs catch the first sun.
The flight morning, hour by hour
| 4:55 a.m. | Leave your lodging in Nashville |
|---|---|
| 5:28 a.m. | Planned meeting with the balloon company, Franklin area; the company confirms the time the evening before |
| 5:58 a.m. | Sunrise |
| about one hour | In the air |
| about three hours | From meeting to being back at your car |
Sunrise for Franklin; drive 30 minutes from Nashville.
Included in the $980 figure for August 6
- Two nights in a room in a small inn or hotel in Nashville, double occupancy, at the office's planning figure for a room night, before tax
- The private sunrise flight for two on August 6, 2027, in a basket for your party alone
- The ride back from the landing field to the Franklin meeting place on August 6
- The office's written quote for August 5 to 7, 2027, then the confirmation
Not in the figure: road, taxes and tips around August 6
- The drive to Nashville by August 5 and home again, which you arrange
- Tennessee sales tax, Davidson County lodging tax and any city tax on two nights
- A tip for the chase crew on August 6, if you choose to leave one
- Meals and other outings during two nights in Nashville
A basket for two after a city night
This stay suits a couple or a pair of friends who want a basket to themselves and can handle an alarm before dawn. A parent and child can make up the pair, since the office plans this flight for flyers aged 6 and up, and the balloon company asks each flyer for the details it needs before it confirms the flight. Think twice if leaving at 4:55 a.m. Central Time sounds hard, or if August heat and humidity wear you out. Summer weather can turn stormy, and the stay holds a single later morning the flight can move to if the pilot calls off Friday. If that morning is called off too, the stay has no further one.
Settled with the balloon company and the lodging
| Nashville lodging | Rate for August 5 to 7, 2027, and whether it holds the room |
|---|---|
| Franklin balloon company | A place in the basket on August 6; flyers aged 6 and up, as the office plans it; its weather and change rules |
| Basket plan | The company plans each basket by the passengers' combined weight and asks each flyer for their own before it confirms |
| Weather date | One later morning of the stay, asked to be kept open |
| How $980 is built | $750 per person for the flight, plus half of a $230 room night for each of two nights |
Anything that cannot be refunded is marked in the quote, and the total there replaces the starting figure. See balloon vacation package prices and the balloon flight weather cancellation policy.