Middle Tennessee · Central Time
Two-night Franklin balloon ride package: reserve a shared June sunrise flight
This two-night Franklin balloon ride package gives two people a shared room at a small inn or hotel in town from Thursday, June 10, 2027, to Saturday, June 12, 2027. Franklin is the county seat of Williamson County, set on the Harpeth River south of Nashville, and the balloon company's usual meeting area is in Franklin itself. The flight is a shared sunrise flight on Friday morning, with other guests in the basket (up to six or eight, depending on the company) and about an hour in the air. Send a request and the office puts your dates to the balloon company and the lodging, then writes back with a quote.
From $460 per person, double occupancy, flight included, lodging tax extra
- Dates
- June 10 to 12, 2027
- Stay
- Two nights
- Flight
- June 11, sunrise
- Leave at
- 4:50 a.m. CT
Ten minutes across Franklin before a 5:30 sunrise
On Friday, June 11, 2027, you step out of your room at 4:50 a.m. Central Time, while the street is dark and quiet. The meeting area is in Franklin itself, so the office allows 10 minutes for the drive, and the office plans your meeting with the balloon company for 5:00 a.m. Central Time. Sunrise that day comes at 5:30 a.m. Central Time. The pilot reads the wind and weather there and decides whether the flight goes. If it does, you watch the balloon company's crew spread the envelope across wet June grass and fill it while the eastern sky turns from gray to gold. About an hour in the air may show pasture, tree lines and low mist in the hollows. Count on about three hours from meeting until you are back at your car. Middle Tennessee runs one hour behind Pembroke Pines, so check that your phone shows Central Time.
The flight morning, hour by hour
| 4:50 a.m. | Leave your lodging in Franklin |
|---|---|
| 5:00 a.m. | Planned meeting with the balloon company, Franklin area; the company confirms the time the evening before |
| 5:30 a.m. | Sunrise |
| about one hour | In the air |
| about three hours | From meeting to being back at your car |
Sunrise for Franklin; drive 10 minutes from Franklin (a planning allowance inside the town).
Included in the $460 figure for June 11
- Two nights in a room in a small inn or hotel in Franklin, double occupancy, at the office's planning figure for a room night, before tax
- The shared sunrise flight on June 11, 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 June 11
- The office's written quote for June 10 to 12, 2027, then the confirmation
Not in the figure: road, taxes and tips around June 11
- The drive to Franklin by June 10 and home again, which you arrange
- Tennessee sales tax, Williamson County lodging tax and any city tax on two nights
- A tip for the chase crew on June 11, if you choose to leave one
- Meals and other outings during two nights in Franklin
Couples, a Saturday rain date and the June light
This stay fits a couple or two friends happy to share a room, and to share a basket with other guests, who like the idea of a quiet June weekend in a river town. The office plans this flight for flyers aged 6 and up, and the balloon company asks each flyer what it needs before confirming the flight. Think again if a 4:50 a.m. Central Time departure on vacation sounds hard, or if you want a basket to yourselves. If the pilot calls off Friday, Saturday is the one spare morning the flight can move to, and you check out that same day, so a longer stay leaves more room for the wind.
Settled with the balloon company and the lodging
| Franklin lodging | Rate for June 10 to 12, 2027, and whether it holds the room |
|---|---|
| Franklin balloon company | A place in the basket on June 11; 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 $460 is built | $325 per person for the flight, plus half of a $135 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.