What you get
Great for Gatherings Elegant Atlanta Retreat lists free wifi, free car parking and an outdoor pool. For a three star property the list is thin, and there is nothing about food, a gym, a shuttle or a front desk beyond the basics. The outdoor pool is the only thing here that is not purely practical. If you need more than a bed, a surface to work on and somewhere to park, you will be looking at the list and finding gaps.
What that adds up to is a straightforward Atlanta base for people arriving by car. Great for Gatherings Elegant Atlanta Retreat sits in Greater Atlanta, 14.5 km from College Park, which is the nearest of the 24 neighbourhoods this site covers, and the free parking is the point of staying here rather than in the middle of things. It suits groups and drivers who want a pool and a place to leave the car. It does not suit anyone planning to walk to dinner or rely on the city on foot.
The supplier’s photographs
Facilities, as listed
Where it puts you
These hotels are not in College Park. They sit well outside it, in the wider metro, and College Park is only the nearest of the 24 neighbourhoods this site covers. Treat it as the closest of the names on the map rather than the place you are booking into. You are out in Greater Atlanta, on the Airport side of town, and you should expect to travel for the things the loop is famous for.
What the site says of this end of things holds: the cheapest bed in metro Atlanta and sixteen minutes by train to Five Points. Right for an early flight, wrong for a holiday. The rail label reads Airport, Red/Gold, and the trail label reads Off the loop, which tells you what the location is and is not. If you want the neighbourhoods themselves, book elsewhere. If you want a bed near the airport at the bottom of the market, this is what that looks like.
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Booking it
Book this one if you are driving in and want the parking and the pool settled before you arrive. 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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