Drift Nashville, a Member of Design Hotels

Our take

Drift is where you stay when Nashville's design scene matters as much as the music. Sharp contemporary bones, a few blocks from Broadway — you're close enough to feel the city's pulse without sleeping inside a honky-tonk. This is a billet for the culturally switched-on: art-world types, architects, anyone who'd rather have a room that makes them think than a lobby that makes them wait. No spa, no sprawling F&B operation — if full-service resort comfort is the brief, look elsewhere. Two or three nights here, done right, is Nashville at its most considered.