I was in Atlanta last year for the ProgPower festival (http://www.progpowerusa.com/ for the curious). The subway isn't bad, it'll get you to the touristy areas. The Vortex rocks and has a great selection of beer and single malt scotch. There's a little Italian place up the street from Earthlink Live that's fantastic.
There's two restaurants to avoid: The Houlihan's on Peachtree (the service sucks) and the Irish Pub in Atlanta Underground (the service is non existent, the food is awfull and they can't mix drinks to save their collective lives) If you're there in October most of the hotels around Earthlink Live will be sold out, as the ProgPower crowd is in town, and the festival has already sold 3000 + seats. -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:43 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Atlanta What kindsa stuff are you into? There are several little parts of town depending on what sort of things you are interested in. Little Five Points (L5P) is a little eclectic and use to be quite punk/alternative. It's not so much anymore, but still a unique and different. A few good spots in L5P are the Vortex (http://www.thevortexbarandgrill.com), which is a burger joint with awesome hamburgers and a very unique and irreverent apmosphere. L5P is small enough to park and walk the whole thing. Buckhead is probably where most out of towners think is the best hotspot. It use to be a famous nightspot, but has declined GREATLY in that regard over the past 10-15 years. There's still quite a bit of good shopping there though and two of the largest and most posh malls in Atl are in this area. I would avoid it a a night-spot though, and it's probably the worst neighborhood as far as traffic goes. Virginia Highlands (VaHi) is probably my fav spot. It's kinda a 30-something neighborhood and has alot of great restaurants, food spot, night-spots. It's small enough to park in one spot and walk around all day. Midtown is another good intown neighborhood, and is where I last lived before moving out of Atlanta. It's where Peidmont Park is, the "big city park" of Atlanta. It's all walkable, but a little more spread out than L5P or VaHi. One of the most popular breakfast spots in Atl is at the corner of 10th and Peidmont in Midtown, called the "Flying Biscuit". Midtown's also pretty centally located and usually where I get a hotel when I visit now-a-days. It's central to all the other intown neighborhoods and makes a good jumping off point to explore the city. As far as specific destinations, alot of people like to visit the Coke Museum, the Aquarium, CNN Center does an interesting tour, Stone Mountain Park is interesting (but a half day trip at least). Those are all intown locations - there is also a whole other worlds Outside The Perimeter (OTP). This area is all suburbs and not particularly interesting. Sure there are some spots out there that may be worth visiting, but remember that Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the US, but most of it is freeway traffic going in and out of the burbs. I would avoid them unless you have a specific plan and know what the traffic situation is before going there. Erika or Adam/David Churvis may have more to say about the burbs - IIRC they both live in/towards the North Eastern Burbs of Atl. If you want some more specific advice, speak up.... :) -Cameron On 3/19/07, Deanna Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > So, the boss approved going to the ASP.net training. Woot! So, now I'm > trying to figure out if I can swing bringing the husband down for the > weekend before for a little pre-training R&R. I've been to Atlanta > once, but it was years ago, for a different training, and I don't know > there neighborhoods well or anything. If we just wanted to bum around > and see the city (and we're the type that likes to walk to really get > a feel for things), where would we want to stay? What would we want to > do? Would we have to have a car for that first weekend? You know, all > that good stuff. > > :) > -d > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230697 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
