my friends are coming for the weekend and want to "tour" our town. well first they want to know if it warrants staying a weekend if there are enough tourist must see places....any suggestions? thanks

2/8/2007 1:39:51 AM

they probably will be better off staying home if they are trying to tour raleigh

2/8/2007 1:41:52 AM

no tourist attractions


but bars and college parties

2/8/2007 1:42:10 AM

show them NCSU and all of its wonderful athletic facilities... take them to chapel hill and duke....(if theyre from way out of town) party the rest of the time

2/8/2007 1:42:20 AM

yeah that's the only thing that comes to my mind..are the 3 downtowns and college scenes gosh

2/8/2007 1:43:12 AM

you can take them to Lake Johnson in shit if they are outdoors people and you don't mind freezing I would definitely show them campus. Maybe see if ya can get tix to a game of some sort whether it be college hoops or a Canes game. What kinda stuff do your friends like? And if they are coming to visit I would think they would want to stay the weekend not just come one day n leave!

2/8/2007 1:46:44 AM

yeah they said if they are coming, they are coming for the weekend but want to know stuff to do...gosh i can't think of any tourist places.....i bet if they sold a Fodors Tourist Guide to Raleigh, book would be 2 pages thin.

2/8/2007 1:49:06 AM

duke homestead, nc art... plus the aforementioned is enough for a weekend.... i would hope

2/8/2007 1:55:07 AM

Yea, you have Exploris and the science museum & shit downtown too Good call on the museum of art brownie27

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2/8/2007 2:01:03 AM

the natural history museum is a decent place to waste a couple hours

2/8/2007 2:02:27 AM

museum

or some paintball

2/8/2007 2:10:06 AM

thanks for the feedback i'll ask them if they are up for museums.....
oh keep in mind they are coming from austin......UT alumns

2/8/2007 2:47:13 AM

my cock is always a popular tourist attraction.

2/8/2007 3:09:21 AM

make sure to get them some bbq.

2/8/2007 6:28:42 AM

take a tour of cameron indoor - its open, the museums in raleigh (art museum, etc.), d00k chapel, carolina or edenton street brewery do tours on saturdays, hit the bars downtown

2/8/2007 8:17:17 AM

when my brother visited from out of town, we:
walked around State
walked around UNC (and ate at Kurama)
ate bbq
ate fresh hot Krispy Kreme donuts
ate Snoopy's hot-dogs
and we went to a Hurricanes game

2/8/2007 8:25:34 AM

Are they over 21?

2/8/2007 10:25:01 AM

http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/


Eat, shop, have ice cream while walking along downtown Chapel Hill/Carrboro at lunch time, or bars in the evening. (& this area has a museum or art gallery every few steps you take... the mall has 3 art galleries and there are alot in other shopping centers, theres atleast one museum on franklin street, theres ackland art museum on campus ect.)

On your way back maybe walk through southpoint mall and catch a movie there. The part in door part out door mall walk around, fancy dining places there like maggino's, and big movie theater makes the place a fun thing to do once while in the area.

2/8/2007 10:56:58 AM

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"you can take them to Lake Johnson"

I would go to Umstead if you want to do something outdoorsy. Its less crowded and has more trails.

2/8/2007 10:59:38 AM

The circus is in town at the RBC Center this weekend, I'm going on Saturday.

2/8/2007 11:38:36 AM

thanks so much for the great feedback...yeah they are over 21...the bbq is a great idea...so they can compare sweet texas bbq to nc vinger bbq...what's the best place? danny is ok....the museums sound fun...unbelievabiliy i've only been to natural history and museum of art.

but i guess it's always like that...whenever i visit friends in other cities they've never been to the tourist spots in their own towns either lol

2/8/2007 12:09:02 PM

Try Clyde Cooper's BBQ downtown. Theyve been in the same spot for something like 80 years.

2/8/2007 1:11:53 PM

If you do happen to be in chapel hill late night and are in the mood for bbq, Time-Out is a pretty good place on franklin street that never closes.

This lists some more ideas like A Southern Season in the university mall and Top of the Hill... this list is worth a scroll through.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Chapel_Hill

2/8/2007 1:50:09 PM

I don't know if you will be able to get in Duke Chapel...I heard on the news that they are in the process of taking the organ out to have repair work done on it which hasn't been done in like over 50 years or something. So I don't know if they are done with the removal of the organ or if they are going to allow people in while it is MIA! Might wanna check first However if ya do go to Duke's campus and are in the mood for desert there is a great lil place I haven't been there in forever and the name is escaping me atm but it is right next to the bookstore "The Regulators" on the main street Also the lil general store has awesome shakes n floats

2/8/2007 2:35:53 PM

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"done with the removal of the organ "

i could not help but chuckle

2/8/2007 2:57:50 PM

^^ Francesca's?

the 'general store' closed down a few years ago after the owner died (grandparents of friends of mine)

they did have some awesome milkshakes tho...


it's 9th street btw.... there is a whole foods, ben and jerry's and several other stores adjacent to 9th street as well

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"fancy dining places there like maggino's"

ahahahahahahhaha

sorry

2/8/2007 3:18:31 PM

Take them here



then if you have time go here



Raleigh central prison and Dorothea Dix

2/8/2007 11:36:47 PM