What you get
Southern Suites Forest Park is a two star property on Courtney Drive in Forest Park, listed with air conditioning, non smoking rooms and a bathroom with bath, shower and WC in the room. The kitchen side of the list is the strongest thing about it: kitchen, kitchenette, microwave, refrigerator, so you can feed yourself rather than rely on the surrounding roads. Free wifi and internet access are listed, along with a desk, TV, telephone and safe, and there is laundry service plus bars on site. Free car parking removes the daily garage question. What the list does not carry is anything that softens a two star stay: no breakfast, no restaurant, no gym, no pool, no airport shuttle. Security features and a smoke detector are noted, which is a modest comfort rather than a selling point.
What that adds up to is a workable, self sufficient stay rather than a holiday. Southern Suites Forest Park suits someone who is driving, wants to cook, is travelling with a pet, and needs somewhere plain to sleep while doing something else in Greater Atlanta. It does not suit anyone who wants to be walked to dinner, wants a lobby with atmosphere, or is relying on public transport for every trip. The kitchen and the free parking are the two things that make the address make sense. If neither of those matters to you, this is not your hotel.
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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 Southern Suites Forest Park directly if you want the kitchen and the free parking locked in before you commit to the trip, since those are the reasons to choose this address. 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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