What you get
Looking Glass is a three star property on Carroll Street Southeast, in Cabbagetown, and it is 0.2 km from the centre of Cabbagetown. The list of facilities is longest on the domestic side: a kitchen with an oven, a microwave, a refrigerator and a toaster, plus a washing machine, an iron and board, and towels. There is air conditioning, a bath and a bathroom, and a fireplace. Parking is free, wifi is free and there is a desk if you have to work. Pets are allowed and the rooms are non smoking.
What that adds up to is an apartment rather than a hotel room. You cook, you wash clothes, you keep a dog with you, and you park a car, and Looking Glass makes all of that straightforward. Cabbagetown is the neighbourhood, and the trail starts at the door for anyone who wants a run or a walk without driving first. Inman Park is 15 min walk away. It suits a long stay, a work trip or anyone moving through Atlanta with a pet. It is wrong for a short holiday built around room service, a lobby and daily housekeeping.
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Where it puts you
Cabbagetown is on the southeast side of the city, a pocket of mill cottages painted every colour, the Krog Street tunnel at one end and Carroll Street at the other. The site notes the stock is small, so book early. If you are staying here, you are on the BeltLine at mile 3.7, and the trail is at the door, which means you step out and start walking rather than finding your way to a trailhead. Inman Park is a 15 min walk for rail connections.
This suits you if you want a small, walkable neighbourhood with the trail and the tunnel as your anchors, and if you like the idea of a place where the housing stock is tight and the streets are short. It does not suit you if you want a hotel district with a lobby bar and a taxi rank, or if you would rather not walk to reach the train.
Booking it
Booking Looking Glass is worth doing early if you are travelling with a dog or need the kitchen for a longer stay, because places that allow pets and have a washing machine fill fastest. 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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