What you get
The Travelodge by Wyndham Forest Park Atlanta South is a 2 star property on Old Dixie Highway in Forest Park, in Greater Atlanta. The listed facilities cover the basics: free wifi and internet access, free car parking and parking, air conditioning, non smoking rooms, and a 24 hour front desk with wake-up service and housekeeping. Rooms list a bath or shower, bathroom, WC, towels and toiletries, plus a desk, coffee, microwave, refrigerator, TV, radio, alarm clock, telephone, hairdryer and safe. There is laundry service. The list is thin on anything beyond the room and the car park: no restaurant, no gym, no pool, no airport shuttle, nothing for a leisure stay.
For someone staying at the Travelodge by Wyndham Forest Park Atlanta South, that adds up to a functional stop rather than a destination. You get a bed, a hot shower, a place to park, and a fridge and microwave if you bring food back. The location, 9.5 km from College Park, which is the nearest of the 24 neighbourhoods this site covers, suits drivers and anyone with business on the south side. It is wrong for a holiday, for a car-free trip, and for anyone who wants restaurants, bars or sights within walking distance. The guest score of 3.4 out of 5 from 278 reviews points to a plain, uneven property, not a treat.
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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 this one if you want free parking, a 24 hour desk and a bed south of the city rather than a base for seeing Atlanta. 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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