Nashville Self-Guided City Walking Tour & Scavenger Hunt
Description
Capitol columns, Confederate ghosts and the Mother Church of Country Music — Nashville's downtown plays more than one tune. This app-led scavenger hunt takes you through Nashville on foot, using phone-based riddles to guide you from one landmark to the next. No guide, no fixed start time. • Climb Capitol Hill to Tennessee's Greek Revival Capitol Building • Consider the statue of Sam Davis, Tennessee's boy hero • Stand before the Ryman Auditorium, country music's Mother Church Available in 24 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian — see the full list when booking and choose yours when you start the game in the app. Around 2 hours - any group size. Music City sets the tempo — try to keep up.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Max 15 people per booking. For larger groups, make multiple bookings.
- After booking you receive a text message and a Viator message with your game code. Download the Explorial app from your appstore. Open the app, enter your 6 digit game code
- Weather & Health Guarantee: If bad weather or illness prevents you from starting the tour, you can simply reschedule it for another day. You can also rebook to a different city or request a refund
- Smartphone required: Bring your own fully charged smartphone with an active mobile data connection to the start of the tour. Please disable any VPN and avoid city Wi-Fi, as these will cause the app to malfunction or disconnect.
- Recommended attire: It’s best to wear weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable walking shoes — approx. 2 hours of light walking
Reviews(11)
The map in the app didn’t work at all. The button wouldn’t click. When we answered questions to get to the next task, the same thing happened. There was no way to find items without having some sense of where to go. Very disappointing. We took our youth sports team of 11 yos and walking around areas we weren’t familiar with trying to find a random sign in sunny heat was a terrible experience. Was this a scam? We used our team’s funds to pay for it. We finally stopped after about 20 minutes of kids complaining and took them for ice cream and an indoor escape room instead, with funds from our own pocket.
Hi, thank you for sharing this, and we're really sorry your team's outing ended this way. We looked into what likely happened: a very common but frustrating issue is that a phone stays connected to a weak public WiFi network (for example near a café or public building) that shows as "connected" but has no real internet access — while mobile data stays switched off because the phone assumes it's already online. When that happens, the app can't load the map or register answers, exactly as you experienced. This doesn't make it any less our responsibility — the app should detect this and clearly warn users to switch to mobile data, and it currently doesn't. We've flagged this as a priority fix for our development team. We also understand the bigger picture here: this was booked with your youth team's funds, and you ended up paying out of pocket for ice cream and an escape room after 20 minutes of frustrated 11-year-olds in the heat. That's not okay, and it's not the experience we want any group — especially kids — to have. We'd like to refund your booking in full. Please reach out to us at info@explorial.com with your booking reference so we can take care of this right away. In case it helps for future outdoor apps: turning off WiFi entirely (not just "not connecting" to it) usually forces the phone onto mobile data and avoids this issue.
It sucked. Couldn’t get it to work. Emailed for refund still haven’t heard anything. I wouldn’t waste money on this.
We are very sorry to hear your experience didn't go as expected and that you encountered some issues while playing. Your feedback is very important to us and feel free to contact our customer support team at mail@explorial.com to request the refund. Your satisfaction is important to us, and we look forward to hearing from you.
That the Carmack is no longer there to find as well as the whole experience is great to teach children about history
Thank you so much for your fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon in other cities.
Scavenger hunt was fun. It allowed us to see things we normally wouldn't have paid attention to.👍👍 it's great for all ages. We ranged from 25-63 yrs old and everyone enjoyed it
Thank you so much for your fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon in other cities.
Choosing to spend only a short time in Nashville it was a great experience getting to know some nice places and doing the challenges along the way. We took a lot of photos and had an overall great time playing this experience!
Thank you so much for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
We came across with this tour by chance and decided to buy it because it was so cheap, and it definitely didn't disappoint. It was a really fun experience, and we love the part of the photo tasks. My friends and I will definitely recommend it to everyone!
Thank you so much for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
Great app, which is simple to use and makes exploring new places a lot of fun. We were able to learn more about my hometown. We are already anticipating learning more about other places in this way in the near future.
Thank you so much for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
Fun way to explore Nashville and learn. It was fun but a bit short. I learned so many cool things about the city.
Many thanks for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
Perfect for the kids to go on a sightseeing tour! They would have been bored on a normal guided tour but loved this one with the smartphone!
Many thanks for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
Recommended, lots of fun! Easy to install via the app, very informative and really fun in the group to see who's beating the highscore.
Many thanks for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
