What you get
Jameson Inn and Suites Riverdale is a 2 star property at 6286 Georgia Hwy 85, and its listed facilities are broad rather than deep. You get a 24 hour front desk, lifts, wheelchair access, free wifi, free internet access in the lounge and free car parking. There is an outdoor pool, a playground and an arcade, plus breakfast, a banquet space, a meeting room, a business center and a computer room. Dry cleaning and laundry service are listed, along with an ATM, multilingual staff and a TV. What is missing from the list is anything that suggests the rooms themselves have been refreshed, and beyond breakfast there is no food or drink on site.
For the traveller, Jameson Inn and Suites Riverdale is a place to sleep and park, not a place to spend a day. The pool, playground and arcade matter if you are breaking a drive with children, and the meeting room and business center matter if you need a table and a printer. Everything else assumes you have a car and a reason to be on this stretch of highway. It suits a driver who wants a cheap bed and free parking near the airport, and it does not suit anyone who wants to walk to dinner, wants a lounge to sit in, or wants a room that feels like more than a motel.
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 Jameson Inn and Suites Riverdale if you want free parking and a bed near the airport and are not paying for a lobby or a restaurant you will never use, and check the guest score before you decide. 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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