My husband and I will be spending the Saturday after St. Patrick%26#39;s Day in Savannah and are looking for answers to some general questions.
Where are the best places to eat? Anything from fancy to casual is fine with us, we just enjoy good food.
Where are the best bars to throw back a beer?
Any advice is welcome and thanks in advance for your responses.
Savannah the day after St. Pats
Nothing will be normal while you are here. They are predicting as many as 400,000 extra people here(in a town of less than 200,000) for the weekend if the weather is good, and it looks like it will be.
Most bars and restaurants downtown will be stripped of furniture and acting like fast food and beer places for the whole weekend. Tubby%26#39;s on River street said in todays paper that people have waited in line for 3 hours for a table on the holiday weekend. That is exceptional, since they are right on River Street, but it gives you an idea of what things will be like.
I would wander around, enjoy the craziness for what it is, get food and beer where you can, have fun, see how beautiful our city is, and come back when things are normal.
Savannah the day after St. Pats
Brian has pretty much nailed it. The Party will probably still be going on. Just come and enjoy. Just don%26#39;t make any big plans as to where to eat.
The City Sanitation Department will have already started cleaning up the streets, but will still have a long ways to go.. So while the city is still beautiful, it may be messy in spots. It%26#39;s like an Irish Mardi Gras.
Both of them have it right! As busy as Savannah is during St. Pat%26#39;s, there is no REAL way to guarantee ANYTHING, including a seat in a restaurant. Just enjoy the city, have fun, grab what you can when you can, sit back and watch the drunk people stumble all over themselves (and others) and have a good laugh! This is party central this time of year. It%26#39;s almost competetive with Mardi Gras! Hope you enjoy your stay!
Oh, Dear!! I hope we haven%26#39;t scared you away. There will be loads of places to go and see that aren%26#39;t Party Central. The biggest area to enjoy or avoid, depending on your frame of mind, would be the River Street. The weather looks as if it will be glorious.
I Hope I didn%26#39;t sound as if I were talking bad about Savannah during one of our biggest festivals of the year! My intent was to demonstrate the number and magnitude of the festival not to scare anyone! I do sincerely hope you enjoy your stay here, and you will probably not have any better time anywhere else in the world on that weekend. I%26#39;m glad you got a room!
Thank you all for the help. We ended up drinking up and down River Street and had a very good time. Our dinner was at the Chart House and we very much enjoyed the meal. The food was excellent.
Thanks again for the input.
Wonderful!! I am sure that I speak for everyone when I say that we are certainly glad that you enjoyed yourself. Don%26#39;t forget, you can come back next year!!!
Reading this question, I have to laugh as we visited Savannah for the first time on this very day...the day after St. Patrick%26#39;s. Yuk. The city%26#39;s homes and gardens are as glorious and beautiful as I have ever seen. Outstanding and breathtaking. But the River area was a big pit of drunks and trash. We came from Boston hoping to get away from the big St. Patrick%26#39;s thing. Since we live in an area of the country that has the most Irish revelers along with New York, we never suspected we would be walking right into the fire in Savannah!!! The music was so loud, we could not enjoy walking around, let alone dining. We could not get away from this area fast enough. In reality, not everyone is Irish on St. Patrick%26#39;s day and even if we were, not everyone wants to celebrate in a big drunken mess. Savannah is so gorgeous, it made us wonder why the need for this kind of festival which simply promotes loaded college kids. This is probably one of the reasons why Charleston has the reputation of being classier than Savannah even though the cities are equally beautiful and fascinating.
Unless you are a big boozer and like to pee in rows and rows of porto potties, avoid this holiday in Savannah like the plague.
twofoxxy....well, we try to warn the unwary ones. We%26#39;ve been doing this for 182 years. There is a very strong Irish heritage here. The rest of us sort of either claim kinship or ignore. The Irish festivals start about two weekends before St Patricks Day. Everything sort of peaks on the 17th, and when that falls on a Friday or Saturday, the party does get to be a little much for someone not expecting it. Fortunatly, it seems to stay down in one area of town.
Please come back sometime. We aren%26#39;t always that rowdy! We really have two parades: The Big One on the 17th and the smaller one, a couple of days later, consisting of trucks hauling portapotties out of town.
We loved our time in Savannah, so needless to say I am stunned by charlottebea%26#39;s post.
We have been to Savannah before and have enjoyed the architecture and the loveliness of the city. On St. Pat%26#39;s weekend, we were expecting just what we got, a sort of Irish mardi gras. It was a blast and we are not excessive drinkers. We spent from noon until about 8:00 p.m. on River Street and enjoyed the hustle and bustle.
The crowds were very civilized and there were plenty of activities for the non-drinker. Rock climbing walls, those bouncy swing things, and plenty of shopping from the cheesy t-shirt shops that every city has, all the way to very nice gift shops with high end merchandise.
Our meal at the Chart House lovely and the restaurant is very upscale.
St. Pats day is St. Pats day wherever you go, if you don%26#39;t like it then don%26#39;t go where the party is. Just stay home instead of writing hateful things about one of the most fun and beautiful cities in the U.S.A.
P.S. Permanent bathroom facilities were located inside the Hyatt, open to the public and staffed by two bathroom attendants.
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