Middle Tennessee · Central Time
Spring Hill predawn balloon flight package: reserve a September sunrise from the basket
This Spring Hill predawn balloon flight package gives two travelers a shared room at a small inn or hotel in Spring Hill, Tennessee, a town on the Maury and Williamson county line, for three nights. You check in on Thursday, September 2, 2027, and check out on Sunday, September 5, 2027. If the pilot judges the wind and weather fit on Friday morning, the basket rises while the sky is still dark, and you see the September sun come up from the air. The office requests the room and your places in the basket for that weekend, then writes back with a quote.
From $1,170 per person, double occupancy, flight included, lodging tax extra
- Dates
- September 2 to 5, 2027
- Stay
- Three nights
- Flight
- September 3, sunrise
- Leave at
- 4:20 a.m. CT
A Friday morning that begins in the dark
On Friday, September 3, 2027, you leave your room at 4:20 a.m. Central Time, while the sky over Spring Hill is still black. The drive north to Franklin, where you meet the balloon company, is planned at 30 minutes (26 measured on the road network), which brings you in for the 4:50 a.m. Central Time meeting. The office plans that meeting ninety minutes before sunrise, and the balloon company confirms the time the evening before. Those ninety minutes are busy: the pilot reads the wind, the team lays the balloon out across the grass and fills it, and you step into the basket by the glow of the burner. Sunrise that day is 6:20 a.m. Central Time. If the pilot finds the morning right and the basket is up by then, you watch gray turn to gold over early September fields, still green from summer, with mist lying low along the creeks and tree lines.
The flight morning, hour by hour
| 4:20 a.m. | Leave your lodging in Spring Hill |
|---|---|
| 4:50 a.m. | Planned meeting with the balloon company, Franklin area; the company confirms the time the evening before |
| 6:20 a.m. | Sunrise while the basket is already up |
| 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 $1,170 figure for September 3
- Three 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 predawn flight on September 3, 2027, in a basket of at least two guests that lifts in the dark
- The ride back from the landing field to the Franklin meeting place on September 3
- The office's written quote for September 2 to 5, 2027, then the confirmation
Not in the figure: road, taxes and tips around September 3
- The drive to Spring Hill by September 2 and home again, which you arrange
- Tennessee sales tax, Maury or Williamson County lodging tax and any city tax on three nights
- A tip for the chase crew on September 3, if you choose to leave one
- Meals and other outings during three nights in Spring Hill
Two dark mornings in reserve for the Spring Hill basket
This trip suits two people who are happy to rise long before dawn and would rather greet the sun from the air than from a window. Think it over if a 4:20 a.m. Central Time departure sounds rough on a vacation, or if a child younger than 6 is coming, the youngest age the office plans this flight for. Before it confirms a place, the balloon company asks every flyer what they need. If the pilot calls off Friday, the stay still holds two later mornings to try again. Flights of this kind run from April through November.
Settled with the balloon company and the lodging
| Spring Hill lodging | Rate for September 2 to 5, 2027, and whether it holds the room |
|---|---|
| Franklin balloon company | A place in the basket on September 3; 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 | Two later mornings of the stay, asked to be kept open |
| How $1,170 is built | $1,000 per person for the flight, plus half of a $113 room night for each of three 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.