1 Hotel Nashville

The Hotel

The 1 Hotel Nashville opened in 2022 in the Gulch — the former industrial district south of Broadway that has become Nashville's most interesting neighbourhood for food, retail, and now hospitality. The 1 Hotels brand, founded in 2015 with the explicit intent of building luxury hotels around sustainability principles, brings its full design vocabulary to the Nashville property: reclaimed wood from Tennessee barns, living plant installations throughout the building, a material palette sourced from within 300 miles of the site, and the kind of environmental commitment that has moved from marketing talking point to genuine operational standard.

The 215 rooms are furnished in the brand's characteristic nature-meets-luxury aesthetic — organic textures, muted greens and browns, lighting that mimics natural cycles, and a level of material quality that resolves the question of whether sustainability requires compromise in comfort. It does not, and the 1 Hotel Nashville is the most complete demonstration of that argument in the American South.

Harriet's rooftop bar and restaurant operates across two levels of the building's top floors with a view that takes in the Gulch's skyline, the Nashville downtown towers, and the hills of Brentwood on a clear day. The cocktail programme runs on Tennessee spirits and housemade syrups; the food programme focuses on local sourcing with a kitchen team that treats the ingredient list as a design constraint rather than an inconvenience. The rooftop pool, positioned between Harriet's two floors, is the hotel's most photographed element — a 60-foot lap pool with Gulch views that operates year-round in the heated months.

The Bamford Wellness Spa is a partnership with the UK's Bamford brand — the same operation that drives the wellness programme at 1 Hotel Mayfair in London. The Nashville interpretation offers a thermal suite, eight treatment rooms, and a programme that takes seriously the idea that a hotel stay can be restorative rather than merely comfortable. Infrared sauna, cold plunge, and a menu of treatments that go beyond the standard luxury spa offering into territory that requires professional knowledge.

Best for Wellness Retreat

The 1 Hotel Nashville is the obvious choice for anyone visiting Nashville with wellness as a primary objective rather than an afterthought. The Bamford Spa programme, the building's biophilic design, the farm-to-table kitchen, and the rooftop pool combine into a wellness framework that makes sense without requiring you to leave Nashville's cultural energy entirely. The Gulch location provides enough urban engagement to make a wellness stay feel chosen rather than retreated-into.

Best for Honeymoon

For honeymooners who care about where they stay in the sense of choosing a hotel with genuine values rather than performed ones, the 1 Hotel Nashville is the most defensible choice in the city. The rooftop pool suite, the Bamford spa couples treatment, and the quality of Harriet's for dinner constitute a Nashville honeymoon that the other hotels in the city's luxury tier are still trying to match.

From $319 / night. Check availability directly.