Hampton Inn Atlanta Northlake

What you get

Hampton Inn Atlanta Northlake is a two star hotel that owns up to what it is: a practical stop in Greater Atlanta with a long facilities list covering the basics. You get free parking, free wifi, breakfast, a fitness center, an outdoor pool and a business center with copy and internet access. Rooms come with air conditioning, a refrigerator, a microwave, a coffee setup, a television, a hairdryer, an iron and board, a safe and toiletries. There are family rooms, cots, a sofa bed option, lifts, a 24 hour front desk, express check in and laundry service. Pets are allowed. Where the list thins out is anything beyond the building: the area is Greater Atlanta, the rail label is Decatur, Blue/Green, the trail label is Off the loop, and there is no restaurant or bar scene on the doorstep, only a bar or snack cafe on site.

For someone staying at Hampton Inn Atlanta Northlake, that adds up to a car dependent stay. You park free, sleep in a room with the standard chain fittings, eat breakfast downstairs and use the pool or the fitness center without leaving the property. The freeway and the loop are the point of the location; Decatur, 9.6 km from Decatur, which is the nearest of the 24 neighbourhoods this site covers, is the nearest named district if you want one. This suits an early flight, a work trip with a car, or a family breaking a drive. It does not suit anyone hoping to walk to dinner, browse a neighbourhood on foot or treat Atlanta as a city break without driving.

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Where it puts you

These hotels are not in Decatur. They sit in the wider metro, outside the 24 neighbourhoods this site covers, and Decatur is only the nearest of them. Treat that as the shape of the stay: you are based in greater Atlanta, not on the loop, and you should expect to travel for the things the loop is famous for. Decatur itself is its own small city six miles out, with a square, a rail station and the best restaurants-per-capita in Georgia, and the Blue/Green lines stop there, so it is reachable rather than next door.

For the BeltLine, look to the trail: these addresses sit off the loop, at the far end of the mile markings this site uses, and getting onto it means a deliberate trip rather than a stroll out of the lobby. Choose these hotels if you want the metro and its edges, not if you want to wake up inside the city the site is about.

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Booking it

Booking Hampton Inn Atlanta Northlake is worth doing direct if you want the free cancellation to stick, since the property sits in a part of Greater Atlanta where you will want flexibility if plans shift. 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.