taking a trip there for Memorial Day weekend... any advice on stuff to do/see?

5/22/2006 9:42:52 AM

Eat at Paula Deen's restaurant, The Lady and Sons. Go early.

5/22/2006 9:47:11 AM

sounds fun... anything else?

5/22/2006 10:24:09 AM

get plastered on teh riverfront.

5/22/2006 10:27:42 AM

5/22/2006 10:30:24 AM

ghost tour
SCAD gallery

5/22/2006 10:31:10 AM

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"get plastered on teh riverfront."

but watch out for the streets! its hard to walk on cobblestone after a heavy drinking session.

5/22/2006 10:34:26 AM

dude, you can drink on the sidewalks down there

if you go in a bar - you can ask for your drink in a plastic cup and drink it outside. and they have palm trees.

5/22/2006 10:55:09 AM

ooo exciting have a good trip

5/22/2006 11:00:27 AM

thanks Sonali
keep the suggestions coming!

5/22/2006 11:00:59 AM

ill be down there. um get wasted thats all i can advise. oh and see the civil war fort, wasted.

5/22/2006 12:13:17 PM

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"Eat at Paula Deen's restaurant, The Lady and Sons. Go early."

hell no. that place is always ridiculously crowded and overpriced.

same "southern cookin" you can get at a hundred places locally but like 3x the price.

skip it.

5/22/2006 12:17:07 PM

paula deen cooks some awesome stuff on the food network. one of my roomates watches that channel nonstop

5/22/2006 12:21:34 PM

Oh man, definitely eat at her restaraunt, Lady and Sons, but don't get the buffet. The menu has some awesome seafood, I got a porkchop stuffed with crab and lobster. And the maccaroni was soooo damn good. Put your name on the list and go next door to the irish pub and drink, thats what we did.

The waterfront is fun to go and laugh at trashy\redneck people, there are some decent bars there.

Oh, we took a haunted house tour, a little cheesy but there was some good stories and you get to go in old historical houses.

Its a fun place

5/22/2006 12:30:57 PM

Dear God eat at her restaurant. That has to be some of the best Southern food I've ever had. I don't know what she put in the mac n' cheese but I think it was crack.

5/22/2006 12:46:24 PM

ok... so far... drink, drink, eat macaroni, drink, take ghost tour, drink, look at art gallery, drink?

5/22/2006 2:39:51 PM

Mix more eating in...seafood, etc.

5/22/2006 2:48:51 PM

any good shopping?

5/22/2006 2:51:57 PM

the riverfront SUCKS
its all tourism


drink in city market

5/23/2006 1:21:44 AM

Really, don't go to the river front. All tourists and overpriced.

5/23/2006 1:30:51 AM

thanks for the ideas... keep 'em coming if you have any more!

5/23/2006 9:43:52 AM

bump

5/24/2006 3:31:12 PM

i just finished reading midnight in the garden of good and evil
it made me want to go down to savannah

have fun

5/24/2006 4:06:28 PM

i wish i could remember the name of brewery i went to went to down there...either way, they had the best mashed potatoes...i'm a connoisseur of mashed potatoes

5/24/2006 4:24:20 PM

hope you have a great trip, megan

5/24/2006 5:32:08 PM

i was down there a couple of weeks ago-one thing i wanted to do was visit the wildlife preserve, but i ran out of time. i think they have alligators

overall, i thought savannah was an ODD mixture of pseudo-hippies, yuppies, and art kids. ie i think half the people at the mellow mushroom there (which is like one of THE places to hang out; yeah i don't get it either) don't realise it's a chain.

there are a bunch of tours you can take; i dunno how much touristy stuff you want to do.

i went to tybee beach, which is umm half an hour (?) away. we went at night, so that was fun.

umm...if you can rent/borrow a bike while you're down there, it'd prob be nice (unless the weather is superhumid and gross) savannah is a lot easier to get around in by bike (those stupid squares are like having traffic circles every five feet). the people at the Bicycle Link were really nice (my borrowed bike had a messed up tube). I think it's only $20 for a 24 hr rental.

if you're on the riverfront, some homeless person will probably make you a palmetto rose. and then ask you for money.

i didn't go to any museums while i was there, but i am SURE there are some good ones, especially b/c of SCAD.

5/24/2006 10:55:13 PM

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"Really, don't go to the river front. All tourists and overpriced."

It is a lot of tourist, but is not THAT overpriced,unless you are a cheap bastard who cant really afford to be in Savannah anyhow.

A younger crowd usually hangs out at THe Wearhouse, wet willies is cool place too.

I would agree though, there are some great bars/bands that play in the market square area. And do expect for homeless people to make you a rose .... keep walking





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5/25/2006 12:31:53 AM

go hang out with the Lady Chablis

5/25/2006 1:19:29 AM

out of all the places i've travelled, savannah = my favorite!

5/25/2006 1:38:42 AM

You obviously haven't traveled much.

5/25/2006 12:14:20 PM

Yeah, that's soooo obvious.
god damn, please kill yourself. you have got to be the biggest fucking tool alive. everything you post is complete bullshit and makes no fucking sense.

Another quality post, courtesy of Da' Man.

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5/25/2006 1:13:01 PM

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"It is a lot of tourist, but is not THAT overpriced,unless you are a cheap bastard who cant really afford to be in Savannah anyhow."

I didnt' say Savannah was overpriced. All that I am saying, is go a few blocks back and recieve a higher quality food and service. The waterfront is a tourist trap. Sure it's fun for St. Patty's day, but walking a few blocks away to get away from the tourist trash is worth it.

5/25/2006 2:10:36 PM

Instead of Paula Deen's go to The Olde Pink House. Pricey, but delicious and also haunted. When I was there two weekends ago, the line for Deen's was wrapped around the block.

Bars: I loved Molly MacPherson's. Wonderful.

Tybee would be fun if you're wanting to go to the beach, which I am sure will be crowded.

The town is usually smelly because of the paper mills, but when I was there over Mother's Day weekend, it didn't smell. Maybe they shut down around holidays

5/25/2006 2:12:08 PM

or maybe the wind directions changed

5/25/2006 2:14:22 PM

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"Yeah, that's soooo obvious. god damn, please kill yourself. you have got to be the biggest fucking tool alive. everything you post is complete bullshit and makes no fucking sense. Another quality post, courtesy of Da' Man."

aren't there laws against riding someone's dick w/o a helmet?

5/25/2006 3:13:16 PM

I don't know, try asking your mom. <ooooohhhhh DAMN >

5/25/2006 5:23:16 PM

I live here in Savannah. The place to eat is Tubby's on Thunderbolt and Ms. Wilks House. Ms. Wilkes blows away any other southern themed place here in savannah including Paula Dean's. DO NOT go to her brother's place, Uncle Bubba's, it sucks.

For a good bar go to Kevin Berry's on Rover St. For Seafood downtown you can not beat the Pink House but as someone else said its not cheap. Also, 1790 is a great resturant but pricey. There are alot of good places to eat but Savannah is not a cheap place fyi. You can still have a blast here though, its a very European city in many ways. I live between here and the UK right now and there are alot of smiliarties.

5/25/2006 5:48:39 PM

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"I didnt' say Savannah was overpriced. All that I am saying, is go a few blocks back and recieve a higher quality food and service. The waterfront is a tourist trap. Sure it's fun for St. Patty's day, but walking a few blocks away to get away from the tourist trash is worth it."

agreed

5/25/2006 8:31:56 PM

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"Eat at Paula Deen's restaurant, The Lady and Sons. Go early."

Early = 9am, because by 11am the line is around the block to make dinner reservations on a holiday weekend.

Get the "call a cab" at Wet Willie's

5/25/2006 8:52:16 PM

^ lady and sons used to be great but now they suck because they have to mass produce everything.

bubba (her other resturant) is better but it's towards tybee's island.

tybee's island got a few nice resutrants (Tango's is my fav)

5/25/2006 9:25:36 PM

Denny's on I-95 is always friendly

5/26/2006 12:20:42 AM

^x6 i know your mom knows all about helmets, especially with the cum catcher on the front

Man how she loves my protein shakes........

5/26/2006 11:26:21 AM

Savannah is ok, the problem is that you can spend a whole day in Savannah and see and do everything.

Bar Bar is fun but not if you're tall.

Paula Deen's place is over-rated. Go to Sapphire Grill next door.

definitely check out SCAD, its pretty neat even if you aren't a design freak.

Tybee Island is great but WILL be crowded this weekend. If you get in trouble there, let me know, I'm in good with the whole city council, and the city Marshall

5/26/2006 1:16:00 PM

thanks for all the suggestions I leave in a little over an hour (when I finallllly get off work)

5/26/2006 4:30:02 PM

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"definitely check out SCAD, its pretty neat even if you aren't a design freak."

2 of my friends go there and love it

5/26/2006 4:38:45 PM