What you get
The Quality Inn Atlanta Northeast I 85 lists the ordinary kit of a roadside two star: air conditioning, a private bath with shower, a hairdryer, an iron and board, a desk, a TV with pay per view, a radio, a telephone, a microwave and a refrigerator. Wifi and internet access are free, parking is free and on site, and the front desk is staffed around the clock, with luggage storage, housekeeping, a business center for copy and printing, and a concierge. There is first aid on hand. Nothing here is a surprise and nothing is a luxury, and the list is thin on the things that turn a room into a stay: no pool, no gym, no restaurant, no bar, no airport shuttle.
What that adds up to at the Quality Inn Atlanta Northeast I 85 is a bed, a shower and a parking space at a two star standard, with the practical parts covered and the pleasant parts left out. The guest score is 3.5 out of 5 from 981 reviews, which reads as a place that does its job without exciting anyone. It suits a driver breaking a long haul, a contractor on a short job, or anyone who wants free parking and a fridge and will be gone in the morning. It does not suit a holiday, a car free trip or anyone who wants the lobby to be a destination.
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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
Book this one if you want the cheapest useful bed near the northeast expressway and you are arriving by car. 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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