re: Where is your favorite place to travel in blue ridge or smokey mountains areas?

Kinda depends on what you want to do

There’s variety between High end resort type or cabin in the woods,

I always recommend highlands as a very nice unique town with one of the nicest hotels in the country - Old Edward’s inn. The town has plenty of restaurants shopping and some decent hiking nearby.
Great place to sit on a porch and stare at the incredible views if you stay at a house with a view

Cashiers has a nice hotel called high Hampton owned by the same family as the blackberry resort in Tennessee which is another place I recommend but pricey

Brevard is nice town to do outdoors stuff- river rafting and hiking

Plenty of other spots but depends on what you like/want