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May in Middle Tennessee: reserve the Spring Hill hot air balloon ride package
This Spring Hill hot air balloon ride package means two nights in a town on the line between Maury and Williamson counties, south of Franklin. You arrive Thursday, May 20, 2027, and leave Saturday, May 22, 2027, with a room at a small inn or hotel, two people sharing. Friday holds a shared sunrise flight with a local balloon company, in a basket of up to six or eight guests, depending on the company. Getting there is up to you, and the trip starts at check-in. Send a request and the office checks those dates with the lodging and the balloon company and reply with a written quote. You pay them directly, on their own terms.
From $440 per person, double occupancy, flight included, lodging tax extra
- Dates
- May 20 to 22, 2027
- Stay
- Two nights
- Flight
- May 21, sunrise
- Leave at
- 4:35 a.m. CT
A Spring Hill start, a Franklin meeting at 5:08
Friday, May 21, 2027, begins in the dark. You leave the lodging at 4:35 a.m. Central Time and drive 30 minutes north to the meeting town of Franklin. Middle Tennessee is one hour behind Pembroke Pines, so set the alarm in Central Time. The office plans your meeting with the balloon company for 5:08 a.m. Central Time, and by then a pale band is spreading in the eastern sky. A light jacket helps on the damp grass while you watch the balloon fill and stand upright in the half light. Sunrise is at 5:38 a.m. Central Time. If the pilot decides the wind and weather allow it, you rise for about an hour over late spring country: hayfields thick and green, tree lines in full leaf along the creeks, and mist sitting in the low ground until the sun lifts it. Plan on about three hours from meeting to the return to your car.
The flight morning, hour by hour
| 4:35 a.m. | Leave your lodging in Spring Hill |
|---|---|
| 5:08 a.m. | Planned meeting with the balloon company, Franklin area; the company confirms the time the evening before |
| 5:38 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 Spring Hill.
Included in the $440 figure for May 21
- Two nights in a room in a small inn or hotel in Spring Hill, double occupancy, at the office's planning figure for a room night, before tax
- The shared sunrise flight on May 21, 2027, in a shared basket of up to six or eight guests, depending on the company
- The ride back from the landing field to the Franklin meeting place on May 21
- The office's written quote for May 20 to 22, 2027, then the confirmation
Not in the figure: road, taxes and tips around May 21
- The drive to Spring Hill by May 20 and home again, which you arrange
- Tennessee sales tax, Maury or Williamson County lodging tax and any city tax on two nights
- A tip for the chase crew on May 21, if you choose to leave one
- Meals and other outings during two nights in Spring Hill
A shared Franklin basket after a Spring Hill night
This stay suits two people sharing a room who do not mind an early alarm and want a calm look at Middle Tennessee farm country from above. A parent traveling with a child works too, as long as the child is at least 6, the youngest age the office plans this flight for. Before it confirms the flight, the balloon company asks each flyer what it needs. Think twice if a 4:35 a.m. Central Time departure sounds hard, or if you want a basket to yourselves, since this one carries up to six or eight guests, depending on the company. If the pilot calls off Friday, Saturday morning is the fallback, and the stay has no morning after that.
Settled with the balloon company and the lodging
| Spring Hill lodging | Rate for May 20 to 22, 2027, and whether it holds the room |
|---|---|
| Franklin balloon company | A place in the basket on May 21; 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; a shared price assumes an average passenger |
| Weather date | One later morning of the stay, asked to be kept open |
| How $440 is built | $325 per person for the flight, plus half of a $113 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.