What you get
1 Mi to Train: ATL Area Apt w Patio & Shared Yard is a three star apartment-style property on Bayard Street in College Park, 2.9 km from the centre of College Park. The listed facilities are thin: free wifi is the only item on the list, so there is no pool, no gym, no breakfast room and no restaurant to fall back on. The name points to the two things that carry the stay, a patio and a shared yard, but neither is a listed facility, so treat them as part of the layout rather than as services. Anyone who needs a front desk, a bar or a business centre should look elsewhere in College Park.
What 1 Mi to Train: ATL Area Apt w Patio & Shared Yard actually offers is a self-contained base rather than a hotel with staff and amenities. In practice that means you bring your own food, you sort your own transport, and you use the free wifi to plan the rest. It suits a traveller who wants an apartment close to the airport and close to the rail into Atlanta, and it suits anyone staying more than one night who would rather not eat every meal out. It does not suit a holiday maker who wants a concierge, a pool or a lobby to sit in, and it does not suit anyone who needs the property to arrange their day.
The supplier’s photographs
Facilities, as listed
Where it puts you
These hotels sit in College Park, on the airport side of town, and the rail connection is the reason to be here. Airport, Red/Gold is the line you want: it puts you on the same system that runs through the centre, so you can reach Five Points without a car, and the site's own verdict on the area is blunt enough to quote: the cheapest bed in metro Atlanta and sixteen minutes by train to Five Points. Right for an early flight, wrong for a holiday.
The BeltLine side is different. College Park is off the loop, which means the trail is not on your doorstep and this is not a neighbourhood you pick for walking the city. What is walkable here is ordinary: you stay close to the station, you eat nearby, you sleep. Book it if you have a plane to catch or you want the lowest bed cost in the metro. Do not book it if you came to Atlanta for the BeltLine.
Booking it
Book this one if you want an apartment base in College Park rather than a staffed hotel, and check the calendar before you commit. Most rooms here can be cancelled free, and you book them through app.impt.io. Every confirmed booking removes one tonne of CO2, at no extra cost to you. Five percent of what you pay comes back as IMPT credit, out of the hotel commission rather than added to your bill.
Facts on this page come from the booking supplier's record: star class, address, photographs and facility list. Guest scores come from verified stays. We have not stayed here; the neighbourhood copy is our own.
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