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 offered out concert halls or hosting the Country Songs Awards, Dolly Parton spends a great deal of her time touring aboard her beloved tour bus. But as of currently, supporters can guide a keep in the new music legend’s household on the highway to working experience firsthand how she traversed North The united states en route to performances, rewards, and Dollywood.

“Now we’re using the bus as a suite, leasing it out to persons to see how we live on the road,” Parton tells Condé Nast Traveler.

Dubbed Suite 1986 as a nod to the yr Dollywood opened, the tour bus is stationed at the concept park’s DreamMore Vacation resort and Spa in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Parton famously prefers highways to flying, and used the previous 15 years dwelling and producing songs while on board, which includes dozens of songs like “Backwoods Barbie” as well as the hit Broadway display 9 to 5: The Musical.

The tan and silver Prevost mentor is kitted out with a jewel-tone colour palette and Parton’s customized requests, which include creature comforts like a bathtub, complete-sized fridge, and a specified wig closet in which she stored the signature add-ons she wore for live shows and shows. The inside of partitions of the bus are also customized—hand painted with murals of dancing wayfarers, musicians, crystal balls, and covered wagons. The musician as soon as termed the bus her preferred home.

The tour bus suite involves a full-sized refrigerator, hand-painted mural’s and Dolly’s wig closet.

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The 3 bunk beds tucked into a wall among the entrance of the bus and the again bedroom are where by Parton’s nieces and nephews slept when they traveled with her. Even though the bus design generally comes conventional with 6 bunks, 3 had been taken off to make a lot more place for the musician’s wardrobe closet. Previous the bunk beds, a black button opens an electrical door to Parton’s living quarters, with her total-sized bed, gold cabinetry, and tv. From sequin-embellished swathes ceiling to tassel-trimmed pillows and window treatments, the full bus is decked in glitzy touches befitting the larger sized-than-everyday living icon.

Helmed by longtime driver Tim Dunlap, the bus traveled around 360,000 miles, halting in much more than 60 cities in the U.S. and Canada on Parton’s 2016 Pure & Uncomplicated Tour alone. But a single of its most common routes was from her house in Nashville to Pigeon Forge, just a handful of miles from where she grew up.

Starting up at $10,000, the Suite 1986 Tour Bus Encounter consists of a two-evening keep, and an additional DreamMore Resort guest area to accommodate 4 a lot more company. (A portion of proceeds from each continue to be will go to The Dollywood Foundation.) Also integrated: focused concierge services and distinctive Suite 1986 memento swag—like embroidered towels, robes, and slippers—to recall the glimpse into Dolly Parton’s lifestyle on the highway.