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Metro Atlanta boasts hundreds of hotels, ranging from the most economical to the incredibly luxurious. Here’s a sampling of some of the most pleasant places to stay. All rates are subject to change and availability. For a very thorough listing of accommodations sorted by location, check out the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site at www.atlanta.net.

NEAR AIRPORT

AmeriSuites - Atlanta Airport
Location: 1899 Sullivan Road, College Park, 770-994-2997
Reservations: 1-877-774-6467, www.amerisuites.com/hotels/ajcp.shtml
Rates: $59-$149
Amenities: 125 suites, free breakfast, airport shuttle, dataports, refrigerator, microwave, wet bar, outdoor pool, fitness center, high-speed Internet access, three meeting rooms. Large rooms and a comfortable desk make these rooms feel more like home.

Atlanta Airport Marriott
Location: 4711 Best Road, College Park, 404-766-7900
Reservations: 1-800-228-9290, www.marriott.com
Rates: $149-$184
Amenities: 638 Rooms, 10 Suites (141 rooms for business travelers), airport shuttle service, indoor and outdoor pool, health club, sauna, voice mail, data ports, high-speed Internet access, restaurant and lounge, full business center, 27 meeting rooms. If you enjoy a hotel with its own sushi bar, this is the place for you.

Comfort Inn & Suites
Location: 2450 Old National Parkway, College Park, 404-684-9898
Reservations: 1-877-424-6423, www.comfortinn.com
Rates: $80-$100
Amenities: Opened July 2000. 75 rooms and suites, voice mail, high-speed Internet access, fitness center, meeting room, free airport shuttle, complementary breakfast. Three of the suites feature their own spa.

Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel
Location: 1325 Virginia Ave., Atlanta, 404-768-6660
Reservations: 1-888-303-1746, www.crowneplaza.com
Rates: $80-$160
Amenities: 378 rooms, airport shuttle, high-speed Internet access, outdoor pool, business center, 17 meeting rooms. The hotel restaurant, Benton’s Grill, offers breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Embassy Suites - Atlanta Airport
Location: 4700 Southport Road, Atlanta, 404-767-1988
Reservations: 1-800-362-2779, www.embassysuites.com
Rates: $90-$290
Amenities: 233 two-room suites, complimentary breakfast, airport shuttle, wireless high-speed Internet access, indoor/outdoor swimming pool, sauna, fitness facilities, 7,500 square feet meeting space. Cooked-to-order breakfast and free evening reception will make you want to hang around.

Hilton Atlanta Airport
Location: 1031 Virginia Avenue, Atlanta, 404-767-9000
Reservations: 1-800-445-8667, www.hilton.com
Rates: $59-$289
Amenities: 504 rooms, high-speed Internet access, airport/MARTA shuttle, indoor and outdoor pools, fitness center, business center, 20 meeting rooms. Part of the $4 million 2002 renovation to this AAA 4-diamond hotel included reducing airport noise with triple-pane windows.

Radisson Hotel Atlanta Airport South
Location: 5010 Old National Highway, Atlanta, 404-761-4000
Reservations: 1-800-333-3333, www.radisson.com
Rates: $79-$150
Amenities: 232 rooms and suites, phones with data ports, pool, fitness center, airport shuttle, 9 meeting rooms. Sure, the hotel has its own café and a lounge, but who’d ever notice? The rooms have Nintendo.

Renaissance Concourse Hotel
Location: 1 Hartsfield Centre Parkway, Atlanta, 404-209-9999
Reservations: 1-888-236-2427, www.marriott.com
Rates: $85-$159
Amenities: 387 rooms, airport shuttle, voice mail, data ports, indoor/outdoor pool, fitness center, business center, 28 meeting rooms. Recently renovated, all rooms in this AAA 3-diamond hotel open onto an 11-story interior atrium.

Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel
Location: 4736 Best Road, College Park, 404-762-7676
Reservations: 1-888-625-5144, www.starwood.com/westin/index.html
Rates: $99-$209
Amenities: Renovated in 2001, 495 rooms, voicemail, data ports, high-speed Internet access, business center, airport shuttle, indoor and outdoor pools, fitness center, 23 meeting rooms. This atrium-style hotel offers all the creature comforts: the chain’s trademark Heavenly Beds, plus a cigar bar and a Starbucks kiosk.

DOWNTOWN

Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Location: 265 Peachtree Center Avenue, 404-521-0000
Reservations: 1-888-236-2427, www.marriott.com
Rates: $109-$159
Amenities: 1,675 rooms, Voice mail, data ports on phone, high-speed Internet access, indoor and outdoor pool, health club, 48 meeting rooms. No one in town can beat this hotel’s interior atrium, at 50 stories. It’s a Mobile 3-star facility.

Embassy Suites Hotel Atlanta - at Centennial Olympic Park
Location: 267 Marietta St., 404-223-2300
Reservations: 1-800-362-2779, www.embassysuites.com
Rates: $144-$329
Amenities: 321 suites, direct and wireless high-speed Internet access, Sony Playstation, business center, fitness room, pool, 13 meeting rooms. Overlooks Centennial Olympic Park and is across the street from CNN Center, Philips Arena, Georgia Dome and the Georgia World Congress Center. There's a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse on the lobby level.

Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Location: 265 Peachtree St., 404-577-1234
Reservations: 1-800-633-7313, atlantaregency.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml
Rates: $89-$235
Amenities: 1,260 rooms, voice mail, wireless Internet access, computer data ports, business center, outdoor pool, exercise room, 52 meeting rooms. This was the world’s first contemporary atrium hotel when it was built in 1967. Three decades later, it was given a $15.4 million face lift. The bright blue Polaris revolving restaurant-bar is now in the shadow of much taller buildings, but it’s still fun to visit.

Omni Hotel at CNN Center
Location: 100 CNN Center, 404-659-0000
Reservations: 1-800-843-6664, www.omnihotels.com
Rates: $139-$385
Amenities: 1067 rooms and suites, phones with voice mail and modem capabilities, high-speed wireless Internet access, outdoor pool, health club, more than 120,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space. Stay as close as you can get to the Georgia Dome, Philips Arena and the World Congress Center AND wear a terry bathrobe in this AAA 4-diamond hotel.

The Westin Peachtree Plaza
Location: 210 Peachtree St., 404-659-1400
Reservations: 1-888-625-5144, www.starwood.com/westin/index.html
Rates: $159-$365
Amenities: 1,068 guest rooms and suites, voice mail, data port, high-speed Internet access, indoor/outdoor pool, fitness facility, 53 meeting rooms. A 73-story ride in glass elevators takes you to the Sun Dial restaurant. After a few martinis, you won’t be certain whether the restaurant is revolving or if it’s just you.

MIDTOWN

Four Seasons
Location: 75 14th Street, 404-881-9898
Reservations: 1-800-819-5053, www.fourseasons.com/atlanta/
Rates: $195-$600
Amenities: 244 rooms and suites, multi-line cordless telephone, voice mail, high-speed Internet access, health club, indoor pool, 15,500 square feet of meeting space. If "neoclassical rose and marble granite" doesn’t do it for you, perhaps "real nice" rings more clearly. In addition to offering some of the best dinners in town, the Mobil 4-star Park 75 restaurant also serves up an outstanding brunch. The property is a short walk from the Woodruff Arts Center.

Georgian Terrace Hotel
Location: 659 Peachtree Street, 404-897-1991
Reservations: 404-897-1991, 1-800-651-2316, www.thegeorgianterrace.com
Rates: $139-$489
Amenities: 319 suites, voice mail, data ports, high-speed Internet access, rooftop pool, fitness center, 12 meeting rooms, elegant ballrooms. Built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel is known for hosting the premier party of "Gone With the Wind" in 1939.

Sheraton Colony Square Hotel
Location: 188 14th Street, N.E., 404-892-6000
Reservations: 1-888-625-5144, www.starwood.com/sheraton/index.html
Rates: $99-$169
Amenities: 467 rooms and suites, voice mail, data port, high-speed internet access, fitness center, outdoor pool, 26 meeting rooms plus ballroom. Just two blocks from Piedmont Park, this hotel is equidistant from Atlanta’s cultural center and the great outdoors.

Wyndham Midtown Atlanta
Location: 125 10th Street N.E., 404-873-4800
Reservations: 1-877-999-3223, www.wyndham.com
Rates: call
Amenities: 191 rooms and suites, voice mail, cordless two-line phone, high-speed Internet access, airport shuttle, indoor pool, fitness room, 6,000 square feet of meeting space.

BUCKHEAD

Ritz-Carlton Buckhead
Location: 3434 Peachtree Road, 404-237-2700
Reservations: 1-800-241-3333, www.ritzcarlton.com/hotels/atlanta_buckhead/
Rates: $289-$2,000
Amenities: 553 rooms and suites, two phone lines per room with modem connection and conference calling, high-speed Internet access, indoor pool, fitness center, 10 meeting rooms. This elegant hotel is home of the Mobil 5-star Dining Room. Pop by the lounge one evening for some of the best people watching in town. The hotel itself consistently ranks in the 5-diamond, 4-star range of travel surveys.

DoubleTree Hotel - Atlanta Buckhead
Location: 3342 Peachtree Road NE, 404-231-1234
Reservations: 1-800-222-8733, www.doubletree.com
Rates: $109-$199
Amenities: 230 rooms, two-line phone with data ports, voice mail, high-speed wireless Internet access, complementary access to Crunch Fitness Center next door, business center, 11 meeting rooms. This hotel offers a prime location in Buckhead, just a couple of blocks from Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza, and less than a block from the Buckhead MARTA station.

Grand Hyatt Atlanta
Location: 3300 Peachtree Road, N.E., 404-365-8100
Reservations: 1-800-633-7313, www.hyatt.com
Rates: $99-$3,500
Amenities: 437 rooms and suites, fax machine, voice mail, data port, business center, outdoor pool, fitness center, eight meeting rooms plus ballroom. This hotel is located right in the heart of all Buckhead has to offer.

JW Marriott Hotel Lenox
Location: 3300 Lenox Road, 404-262-3344
Reservations: 1-888-236-2427, www.marriott.com
Rates: $189-$285
Amenities: 371 rooms and suites, voice mail, data ports on phone, high-speed Internet access, indoor pool, health club, business center, 22 meeting rooms. If you’re all about the shopping, you just can’t get any closer to Lenox Square than this 4-star, 4-diamond hotel.

PERIMETER CENTER

Crowne Plaza Ravinia
Location: 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road, 770-395-7700
Reservations: 1-800-465-4329, 770-395-7700, www.cpravinia.com
Rates: $99-$199
Amenities: 495 rooms and suites, high-speed Internet access, indoor pool, tennis court, fitness center, business center, MARTA and Perimeter Center shuttle, 20 meeting rooms including ballrooms.

LaQuinta Inn & Suites/ Perimeter Medical Center
Location: 6260 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, 770-350-6177
Reservations: 1-866-725-1661, www.lq.com
Rates: $59-$118
Amenities: 143 rooms and suites, voice mail, data ports, high-speed Internet access, complimentary continental breakfast, business center, outdoor swimming pool, fitness center, 2 meeting rooms. This AAA 3-diamond hotel is adjacent to Cox Communications, a sister company of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. What more could you want?

W Atlanta at Perimeter Center
Location: 111 Perimeter Center West, 770-396-6800
Reservations: 1-888-625-5144, www.starwood.com/whotels/search/hotel_search_list.html
Rates: $235-$319
Amenities: 275 rooms and suites, cordless phone, dataport, high-speed Internet access, munchie box, outdoor pool, health club, 10 meeting rooms (aromatherapy and mood music optional). This could be the only luxury hotel in the metro area that has an adopt-a-goldfish program.

BED AND BREAKFASTS

Ansley Inn Bed and Breakfast
Location: 253 15th St. (Midtown), 404-872-9000
Reservations: 1-800-446-5416, www.ansleyinn.com
Rates: $120-$250
Amenities: Rooms include private bath with jetted tub, personal terry cloth robes, Southern breakfast, individual climate control, private telephone service with voice mail/data ports, color cable TV, coffee maker, hair dryer and iron. Built in 1907 as the home of Atlanta clothier George Muse, this AAA 3-diamond inn is close to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Botanical Garden and Piedmont Park

Inman Park Bed and Breakfast
Location: 100 Waverly Way N.E., Atlanta (Inman Park, near downtown), 404-688-9498
Reservations: 404-688-9498, www.inmanparkbandb.com
Rates: $110-$130
Amenities: The residence built in 1912 for Coca-Cola king Robert W. Woodruff features 12-foot ceilings, heart-of-pine floors, 18th- and 19th-century antiques, oriental rugs, fine china, fireplaces, private baths and a walled garden.

1890 King-Keith House
Location: 889 Edgewood Ave. N.E. (Inman Park, near downtown), 404-688-7330
Reservations: 1-800-728-3879, www.kingkeith.com
Rates: $90-$180
Amenities: With 12-foot ceilings and carved fireplaces throughout the home, some rooms feature cable TV, hot tubs and private baths. Within walking distance of MARTA.

Virginia Highland Bed and Breakfast
Location: 630 Orme Circle, N.E., Atlanta, www.virginiahighlandbb.com, 404-892-2735
Reservations: 877-870-4485
Rates: $125
Amenities: This restored 1920s craftsman bungalow is a 15-minute walk to Highland Avenue, a neighborhood known for its shopping and dining. Some rooms feature private baths, private entrance, whirlpool. No children, please.