Louisville Recommendations for UCF weekend

[dali drama]

Getting the old college roommates back together to see UCF play Louisville Friday Sept 17th. Looking to fly in Thursday and leave Saturday night.
How is the Louisville gameday experience? Areas you’d recommend to stay? Must-do bars/bourbon tasting? Kentucky do tiddy bars?
TIA.

For your troubles:

 

[CommodoreCard]

There are a lot of good hotels where I-75 and I-64 merge east of here. Easy drive to Louisville and back on I-64. Enjoy!

 

[Steelers2012]

Nice first impression. The photos...I'm talkin' 'bout them photos. 👌

 

[fredburgcard]

Assuming you’re renting a car I’d recommend you stay downtown. There are bourbon bars downtown and Angels Envy distillery is on Main St. The tour there is excellent. There’s also the Muhammad Ali Museum and the Louisville Slugger Museum, both also on Main Street. You can also travel to Frankfort or Bardstown where there are several more distilleries including Buffalo Trace, Woodford Reserve and Makers Mark. The hotels near the stadium are not that great and there’s not much to do in that area except on game day. On game day you can park at the Kentucky Fair and Exhibition Center (Fairgrounds) which is an easy walk to the stadium. The main tailgating occurs in the parking lots that are south of the stadium. You can walk through that area from the Fairgrounds parking. You should be treated well as the only fans we ever have problems with come from Lexington. Another area of town with a lot of bars and a young crowd is the Bardstown Road area north of Eastern Parkway. Can’t give you any info on “titty bars”. Sorry. Hope you enjoy every part of your trip except the game.

 

[dali drama]

Assuming you’re renting a car I’d recommend you stay downtown. There are bourbon bars downtown and Angels Envy distillery is on Main St. The tour there is excellent. There’s also the Muhammad Ali Museum and the Louisville Slugger Museum, both also on Main Street. You can also travel to Frankfort or Bardstown where there are several more distilleries including Buffalo Trace, Woodford Reserve and Makers Mark. The hotels near the stadium are not that great and there’s not much to do in that area except on game day. On game day you can park at the Kentucky Fair and Exhibition Center (Fairgrounds) which is an easy walk to the stadium. The main tailgating occurs in the parking lots that are south of the stadium. You can walk through that area from the Fairgrounds parking. You should be treated well as the only fans we ever have problems with come from Lexington. Another area of town with a lot of bars and a young crowd is the Bardstown Road area north of Eastern Parkway. Can’t give you any info on “titty bars”. Sorry. Hope you enjoy every part of your trip except the game.

Thank you.

 

[genghis_card]

Getting the old college roommates back together to see UCF play Louisville Friday Sept 17th. Looking to fly in Thursday and leave Saturday night.
How is the Louisville gameday experience? Areas you’d recommend to stay? Must-do bars/bourbon tasting? Kentucky do tiddy bars?
TIA.

For your troubles:

Thanks for the beauty.
Downtown is alright but if I was coming to Louisville for a game day experience, I'd want to stay at one of the hotels on Crittenden Drive at Central Avenue. Those will put you right in the middle of all the tailgating, and you can easily walk to the game from your hotels. (Most of us park farther away than that.) Tailgating should be going pretty good by 3pm so come party with us.

These hotels are easy walks to the game:

Holiday Inn Louisville Airport - Fair/Expo​

Hilton Garden Inn Louisville Airport
Four Points by Sheraton Louisville Airport​

They are also pretty close to the tiddy bars, Deja Vu on Taylor Blvd, and most of the other tiddy bars used to be on 7th street starting at Berry Blvd and going north from there, near Deja Vu. I assume those are still in that neighborhood.


For the bourbon tour, I'd do the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience in Bardstown, and from there it's only about 15 miles to Makers Mark.

Welcome to Louisville. I hope you enjoy your stay.

 

[CardsFirst]

Getting the old college roommates back together to see UCF play Louisville Friday Sept 17th. Looking to fly in Thursday and leave Saturday night.
How is the Louisville gameday experience? Areas you’d recommend to stay? Must-do bars/bourbon tasting? Kentucky do tiddy bars?
TIA.

For your troubles:

Downtown is the place to be. Lots of restaurants and bourbon spots. And the other sites previously mentioned. Quick trip to the stadium and gentlemen clubs.
Enjoy but not with a win😁

 

[dali drama]

What section would you recommend looking at tickets at? Not trying to crease my neck looking at jumbotron and I wanna be near solid concessions. TIA.

 

[CardsFirst]

What section would you recommend looking at tickets at? Not trying to crease my neck looking at jumbotron and I wanna be near solid concessions. TIA.

If you google our stadium seating chart the visitors seating is in section 201. Not great seats but ok. The upper deck always has seats available, but not great seats. Both end zone seats are ok. But obviously lower level between the 30’s are best. Visitors team is on the same side as visitors seating.

 

[ChargedOn14]

If one was to rent an RV for the day, are there any recommendations on where to park it for the best tailgating experience?

 

[Morgantown Card]

GOTTA HIT THAT LIZARD BAR ON BARDSTOWN ROAD, BRO

 

[PHCARD]

If one was to rent an RV for the day, are there any recommendations on where to park it for the best tailgating experience?

RV parking is available in the Boy Scout ran, grass lot on Central Ave. Short walk. Good crowd. We don’t harass visitors but you will be surrounded by Red & Black. Typically opens 4-6 hrs prior to game.
All these info is prior to Covid Sucks.