What you get
The Holiday Inn Express Atlanta Emory University Area by IHG is a 2 star property on N Decatur Road. The listed facilities cover the practical side well: free car parking, breakfast, air conditioning, a 24 hour front desk, housekeeping, laundry service and luggage storage. Rooms come with a refrigerator, microwave, kitchenette, desk, iron and board, hairdryer, safe and sofa bed, and there is a fitness center, indoor pool and sauna on site. Meeting space, a business center and a bar or snack cafe are also listed. Where the list is thin is food and drink beyond breakfast, and anything within walking distance of the door.
For anyone driving to Emory or the hospital cluster, the Holiday Inn Express Atlanta Emory University Area by IHG does the job: park free, sleep, eat breakfast, go. Families get the pool, the sofa bed and the kitchenette. Business visitors get the desk, the internet access and the business center. What it is not is a base for a Decatur holiday on foot. The centre of Decatur is 1.9 km from the centre of Decatur away, with the Decatur, Blue/Green rail line serving the town and the property sitting Off the loop for trail access. Choose it for a short, car based stay with a clear purpose.
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Where it puts you
Decatur is its own small city six miles out, with a square, a rail station and the best restaurants-per-capita in Georgia. That rail station is on the Blue and Green lines, so you can reach the rest of the system without driving and without a transfer at a downtown hub. The square, the station and the surrounding streets are the walkable part, and they hold most of what you would come here for.
This is off the loop, so the BeltLine trail is not on your doorstep; the trail label reads off the loop. Suits anyone who wants a self-contained town with a rail link and a real restaurant scene. Does not suit anyone who wants to step out onto the BeltLine or be in central Atlanta.
Booking it
Book this one if you need parking, breakfast and a pool on the Emory side of Decatur rather than a room in the middle of town. 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.
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