Big Cyress Lodge Offers Unique Hotel Experience - Local Memphis

MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) – This is the week. After 10 years of planning, of canceled deadlines, of promise after promise, Bass Pro Shops is finally opening The Pyramid store.

Monday afternoon, Local 24 got a good look at the 103 room hotel.

It's called the Big Cypress Lodge. A hotel with screened in porches circling the inside of The Pyramid.

In what was once a sports arena, it is hard to visualize basketball or concerts, and 20,000 people who used to fill the seats.

Now it is big. Everything is big.

The Bass Pro Shop...and overlooking all of this will be people in the hotel.

"It is the first hotel inside of a Bass Pro Shops. As you can see it is extremely unique for a lot of reasons," hotel manager Lana McDonald said.

Here is one reason. Every piece of furniture was made specifically for this place And another. Its rooms have views. Views you won't find in other hotels.

"Not all of our rooms have porches. The majority do. We do have some exterior rooms with windows facing Memphis," McDonald said.

So some folks will have views of a city where leaders are betting the butter and egg money on Bass Pro's Pyramid store sparking development in downtown.

One thing for sure. If people can afford to stay at this hotel, they should be able to afford Memphis.

"Our room rates start at $259,” McDonald said.

Officials are working like crazy to get everything ready for the first public event Wednesday. Most of the stuff is ready, but it is going to be close.