For the Ultimate Dolly Parton Experience, You Can Now Book a Stay on the Music Legend’s Tour Bus
When she’s not dazzling audiences in bought out concert halls or web hosting the Nation Tunes Awards, Dolly Parton spends considerably of her time traveling aboard her beloved tour bus. But as of right now, fans can ebook a continue to be in the audio legend’s property on the highway to encounter firsthand how she traversed North The us en route to performances, benefits, and Dollywood.
“Now we’re utilizing the bus as a suite, renting it out to folks to see how we are living on the street,” Parton tells Condé Nast Traveler.
Dubbed Suite 1986 as a nod to the calendar year Dollywood opened, the tour bus is stationed at the topic park’s DreamMore Vacation resort and Spa in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Parton famously prefers highways to traveling, and expended the earlier 15 many years dwelling and producing music whilst on board, including dozens of music like “Backwoods Barbie” as properly as the strike Broadway exhibit 9 to 5: The Musical.
The tan and silver Prevost mentor is kitted out with a jewel-tone shade palette and Parton’s personalized requests, which include creature comforts like a bathtub, comprehensive-sized fridge, and a selected wig closet in which she held the signature accessories she wore for concerts and demonstrates. The within walls of the bus are also customized—hand painted with murals of dancing wayfarers, musicians, crystal balls, and lined wagons. The musician as soon as known as the bus her preferred property.
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The 3 bunk beds tucked into a wall among the front of the bus and the again bedroom are where Parton’s nieces and nephews slept when they traveled with her. Whilst the bus product typically will come typical with 6 bunks, a few had been taken off to make more space for the musician’s wardrobe closet. Earlier the bunk beds, a black button opens an electric doorway to Parton’s dwelling quarters, with her comprehensive-sized mattress, gold cabinetry, and tv. From sequin-embellished swathes ceiling to tassel-trimmed pillows and window solutions, the whole bus is decked in glitzy touches befitting the more substantial-than-lifestyle icon.
Helmed by longtime driver Tim Dunlap, the bus traveled around 360,000 miles, halting in a lot more than 60 cities in the U.S. and Canada on Parton’s 2016 Pure & Simple Tour on your own. But one of its most prevalent routes was from her house in Nashville to Pigeon Forge, just a several miles from in which she grew up.
Setting up at $10,000, the Suite 1986 Tour Bus Knowledge contains a two-night remain, and an more DreamMore Resort guest area to accommodate four more guests. (A part of proceeds from every single stay will go to The Dollywood Basis.) Also incorporated: committed concierge provider and unique Suite 1986 souvenir swag—like embroidered towels, robes, and slippers—to try to remember the glimpse into Dolly Parton’s everyday living on the highway.
