Day 1 - Three Muses, District Seafood And Madame Butterfly

Doug and I arrived at the Plant Riverside Savannah around 2PM and checked in. We hoped that our room would be ready for us but sadly, it was not.

 

We did find out that our room would be in the Three Muses building this time - and that was the one building of the hotel we really hadn't gotten to check out the year before.

 

This is the post I wrote about the hotel buildings last year...

 

https://waitingforbriana.blogspot.com/2022/08/savannah-plant-riverside-district.html

 

Three Muses...

 

 The lobby of the Three Muses...

We left our luggage with the front desk and Doug suggested we should get a drink at one of the outside riverfront restaurants while we waited for our room. My nerves were a little frazzled from the semi-shaky drop off at SCAD, so I was good with that.

We stopped in at "District Seafood" restaurant.

We ordered drinks (I got a delicious non-frozen strawberry daiquiri) and split a basket of fried oysters. I'm not usually one to like oysters, but the ones at this restaurant were delish. I calmed down, drank my drink (ok - two drinks) and watched the barges float by...

We finally got the text our room was ready and we headed up.

Walking toward our room...

We were in the "Zeus Suite"...

 

Our room was really pretty. Lots of crystals, silver and paintings with ladies and flowers. We had a living room area (with a pullout couch for when Bri joined us the last night), a large bathroom and a comfortable bedroom. The room overlooked the river...

From the street, the balcony of our room was in the middle at the top...

So, the building we stayed in last year (The Atlantic) was located at the end of the street away from everything. It was pretty quiet over there and we had easy access to the pool (there is only one hotel pool and it is in that building). We reserved the same kind of suite again, not knowing suites like this were in the Three Muses building. Randomly, we were given a suite in this building. There were pluses and minuses with this room. The big plus - the location was great because it was so much easier to get to everything. The minus - the atmosphere was kind of loud (we were next to a rooftop restaurant with music at night and also bands played on the riverfront on the weekends). Also, our view of the river was obscured on one side this time because of how the building was shaped - and the balcony was quite small. If we could combine the pluses of both rooms (last year and this year), we would have had the absolute perfect room. It ended up not being a super big deal, but if we ever go back again, we would request a room in The Atlantic (we just prefer quiet over convenience).

We freshened up when we got to our room because we had a reservation at a restaurant that evening called "Madame Butterfly."

We decided to walk to the restaurant because it was just a few blocks away and the weather was quite comfortable that evening...

 This was the building across the street from the lobby of our building. Yes - the cobblestone is very bumpy to drive on...

We arrived at the restaurant and it was very quaint and trendy. The upstairs of the restaurant offers a Korean bbq/group experience (which I bet is delish), but we chose to sit in the dining room downstairs for a more private experience...

The food was amazing. Seriously - the bang bang shrimp appetizer was one of the best appetizers I've ever had. The steaks were amazing and the chocolate mousse dessert was scrumptious. Doug had an old fashioned and an espresso martini. He said they were both great...

 

After dinner, we walked back and took a stroll along the river before heading back to the room...

 

This is the rooftop restaurant situated on the top of the Three Muses building - Myrtle and Rose...

We wanted to go up there and check it out, but it was closed a few of the days we were visiting and then the temps got really warm (too warm for outside eating) and we had made other plans as well - so we just never made it up there. We've been told it has a pretty garden-style atmosphere. Wish we could have seen it.

Slowly walking around after a good meal was a nice way to end the day after a long day of driving and getting ourselves settled...

We didn't have anything really planned for the next day (we just had a lunch reservation), so we were going to just play things by ear.

More on that next...