Southern Music & Dixieland

Optional Excursions

Mobile Dinner
Tonight is an excellent opportunity to mix and mingle with your fellow holiday makers in a casual down-home Southeastern setting.This will be your chance to sample delicious, fresh, gulf specialities of the Mobile Bay area.
New Orleans Dinner Jazz Cruise
Your visit to New Orleans would be incomplete without a trip on the authentic Sternwheel Steamboat Natchez along the banks of the Mississippi River. The 2-hour dinner jazz cruise offers a casual New Orleans style buffet and live Dixieland jazz.
Oak Alley Plantation
Feel the gentle breeze of Southern hospitality on a tour that takes you back to the glory of the Old South. We will leave the city and travel to the Oak Alley Plantation, built in 1839. Oak Alley Plantation has been called the 'Grande Dame of the Great River Road'. Nowhere else in the South will you find such a spectacular setting, an included guided tour will reveal the fascinating stories of the home and its history.
Court of Two Sisters Brunch
Enjoy a unique dining experience at the Court of Two Sisters located in a historic courtyard of the French Quarter. The authentic Jazz Brunch buffet features more than sixty authentic Creole and New Orleans dishes, from eggs Benedict to fresh seafood. Let your palate experience the gourmet pleasures while listening to an authentic New Orleans jazz band.
New Orleans Cooking School
This is the perfect excursion for food lovers to learn the basics of Louisiana Cooking. Fun is a primary ingredient in this kitchen! The Creole/Cajun experts demonstrate how to make New Orleans specialities such as Gumbo, Jambalaya and Pralines, and season them with history, trivia and tall tales.
Swamp Tour
Journey with us by boat, Cajun style, through the heart of Louisiana's swamplands. From the comfort of your swamp boat, you will travel deep into the bayous to see and hear life in this fascinating land
French Quarter Walking Tour
Take a locally guided walking tour through the French Quarter, hearing the stories, history and legends of the famous buildings, bars and restaurants. No walking tour is complete without a stop or two to discover the famous "spirits" of New Orleans. This is history?with a twist.
Memphis Mojo Tour
On this locally guided tour you'll see and learn a little about Memphis and its rich musical heritage in a live-music tour with plenty of interactive fun. The tour will show you sights relating to Elvis, such as Graceland, Lauderdale Courts and the old Hotel Chisca; it will also feature sights relating to other Memphis legends including WC Handy,BB King and Johnny Cash, as well as colourful items of local history and lore.
Memphis Highlights
Today we visit Sun Studio, where the sound of rock and roll was born! From here we head over to the Beale Street area and the Rock-n-Soul Museum, a Smithsonian exhibit, where you will have time to visit the galleries that examine the history of Memphis music and its impact on cultural change
Nashville Sights
On this informative tour of the city, you will see the Capitol Building, the Parthenon, Music Row and the homes of some of the great music stars. A visit to the historic RCA Studio B, (once the recording home of popular music titans such as Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, and the Everly Brothers) then it is on to the new $37 million Country Music Hall of Fame. Surely a tour not to be missed.
Loveless Café
Nationally acclaimed and frequented by celebrities, world travellers and local appetites alike, the Loveless Café serves up award-winning country ham and red eye gravy, real Southern-fried chicken, and Nashville's favourite scratch biscuits with homemade preserves cooked right in the kitchen.
Road to Tara
Leaving metropolitan Atlanta behind, we take the "Road to Tara", and head to Jonesboro, Georgia, home of the fictional Tara Plantation from the classic novel "Gone With The Wind".

Customer feedback for Southern Music & Dixieland

Here are some comments we've collected from our customer survey questionnaires about this tour from Jetsave Journeys customers.

"My husband and I travelled with your company to Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville on Friday 21 May 2010 and I would just like to take this opportunity of thanking Alice and Gerome for making our very first tour holiday fantastic and unforgettable. They are both an asset to Jetsave. Alice's knowledge was second to none she was very helpful and nothing was a chore to her. The tour was unbelievable, everything ran like clockwork, the weather was superb and the company was too. I will not hesitate to recommend this tour to anyone, in fact I've not stopped talking about it and we will be looking to travel with Jetsave in the near future."
Carol Scullion