What you get
Residence Inn by Marriott Atlanta Downtown is a three star property on Peachtree Street, and the listed facilities lean hard toward the extended stay. Rooms come with a kitchen, a dishwasher, a microwave, a refrigerator and a toaster, plus a desk, an iron and board, a hairdryer, a safe and air conditioning. The hotel lists free wifi, breakfast, a fitness center, a business center, laundry service and dry cleaning, room service, luggage storage, a 24 hour front desk, lifts, an ATM and wheelchair access. Parking and valet parking are both listed, and pets are allowed. Where the list is thin is in the things a holiday hotel usually sells: there is no pool, no spa and no restaurant beyond the bar and the breakfast, so the draw is the room itself rather than the building.
For someone in Atlanta for a week of work or a long family trip, Residence Inn by Marriott Atlanta Downtown makes a practical base. You can cook instead of eating out every meal, do laundry without leaving the building, keep a car in the garage or hand it to the valet, and bring a pet. The Downtown address puts you 0.3 km from the centre of Downtown and near Five Points, all lines, which matters if you plan to move around by rail. Couples after a romantic weekend or anyone who wants a lobby scene and a pool will do better elsewhere. Book it if you need a kitchen and a train, not if you need a resort.
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Where it puts you
You are staying Downtown, inside the loop, where the train at Five Points puts every line in the city within reach. That is the point of the location: you can move around Atlanta without a car, and the rest of the trip is built on that. The site's own line on the neighbourhood is blunt about the trade: the cheapest walk to a train in the city, with convention traffic setting the price, so a Tuesday in January is a different hotel than a Tuesday in October.
The BeltLine trail is also here, and the 0.8 mi to trail is the figure to keep in mind if you plan to walk or run it. This suits anyone whose trip runs on transit and convention schedules. It does not suit a holiday built around quiet streets and long, slow mornings.
Booking it
Booking this hotel is straightforward if you know what you want from the room rather than the building. 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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