Leave Home and Stay in Louisville

Five Million Visitors Can’t Be Wrong
Louisville’s Hometown Tourist Celebration (May 6 to 31) has been encouraging Louisville friends and families to be “tourists in their own hometown” for more than a decade. This year’s celebration has been going on for a week now, which means you’ve still got two weeks left to get away from it all.

During this time you can get massive discounts at 55 area attractions, 15 hotels, and 14 restaurants — click HERE for a complete listing. Just show an ID and a friendly Louisville smile and you’ll get all the hot hometown hook-ups.

Pack Your Bags! We’re Staying Home.
Check out a sampling of all that Possibility City has to offer and register to win a fantastic Weekend for Four vacation package valued at $1,000!

• Two nights at Louisville Marriott Downtown
• Four tickets to the Muhammad Ali Center
• Four tickets to the Kentucky Science Center
• Four tickets to Derby Dinner Playhouse
• Four tickets to the Belle of Louisville
• Four tickets to Churchill Downs Fall Meet
• Four tickets to KaLightoscope Christmas at the Galt House Hotel & Suites
• Four tickets to Squire Boone Caverns
• Four tickets to Indiana Caverns
• Four tickets to Marengo Cave (tickets for both Crystal Palace and Dripstone tours)
• Four tickets to Cave Country Canoes
• A $100.00 gift card for Gordon Biersch Restaurant & Brewery

Home Free: The Hometown Quest Scavenger Hunt
Answer tricky questions and solve puzzles at different locations within 60 minutes while taking a tour of downtown Louisville. After completing each part of the tour, you’ll get an official stamp on your card. Once all the spaces are filled, simply turn in your card at the Louisville Visitors Center and get a FREE official Louisville t-shirt. Boom! Like that.

The Hometown Quest begins this Saturday, and ends May 25. Thinkers and adventurers start their tours at the Visitors Center (301 South Fourth Street).

Paint 1,000 Words in 140 Characters
Share your Hometown Tourist pictures with us. Tag our @GoToLouisville twitter account (use the hashtag #HTC13).

Celebrate the Derby with the World’s Most Famous Louisvillians

Pick a Famous Louisville Face for the Famous Louisville Race
If you don’t live within 20,000 miles of Louisville, or if you live in a small cave in a remote forest on top of a mountain (without access to a homing pigeon), you’ll know that this Saturday, the first weekend of May 2013, Possibility City hosts the 139th racing of the Kentucky Derby.

So we won’t bother you with all the usual stuff about elite horses and cool events and international TV coverage. Rather, we’re inviting you to create your own Derby icon, which you can post to Facebook for all your friends to see . . . and envy.

Just click HERE or on the picture at the top to build your very own Friend of Lou Bobblehead Jockey. Pick from this pantheon of Possibilitators: Muhammad Ali, Thomas Edison, Jennifer Lawrence, Tori Murden, and Rick Pitino.

The Ville of Victory!

                 

Louisville Wins Third National Championship

Congratulations, Louisville Cardinals!

Time to update those Facebook photos and make it official: The University of Louisville men’s basketball team is the 2013 NCAA Tournament Champion!

Click on the banner (above left), then . . . oh, heck, you already know how to make this your cover photo. Or snag the poster (above right) and show the world you bleed red. Then go celebrate! (But be safe.)

UofL Community Celebration
Please join the community celebration and ticker tape parade for our Louisville Cardinals. The parade is tentatively scheduled to begin a 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, and will run east on Main Street from 9th Street to the KFC Yum! Center. More details will be available here.