Heres Whats Really In Atlanta
Written: Mar 10 '04
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Pros: Six Flags, Malls, Coke Cola Tour, Cnn tour lots of things to do
Cons: Their are quite a few cons but quite a few of pros as well.
The Bottom Line: You Should Atleast Visit Atlanta Once In Your Life
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| bfg9000d's Full Review: Atlanta |
This city is weird you wonder is it growing or is the downtown area not growing and its just strictly surburban areas growing. With that being said. Atlanta has become the Major city for the south. Any person in the south will tell you these things if you have a question O i need to take a flight to go somewhere? Southern Answer: Well go to atlanta Hartsfield they have direct flights to many destinations. What about Charleston airport or Jackson Airport or Brimingham airport Southern Answer: Well those first go to atlanta hartsfield and you have to connect from their. Heres another one I need to conduct business at a upscale resturant Southern Answer: O atlanta has this one thats really good. What baseball team do you support Southern Answer: o we support the braves. what about a south carolina team their is none.
The point being is you can live in Mississippi or Alabama or South Carolina and the answer to everything is go to atlanta to get it done. Its almost like all the southern states are one big state and atlanta is the only place in the south where its happening. Everything else in the south is falling apart but good ole atlanta is where its happening. Atlanta has become the only really funtioning major city in the South. While every other southern city is in desperate need of repair.
Atlanta itself:
Driving down the interstate atlanta seems pretty well built up. Although once you get off a exit trying to maneuver off the interstate and trying to get to things like a simple mc donalds is a hard task with so much traffic. Every exit becomes a traffic jam. But the farther surrounding communitys Douglassvlle and Conyers the traffic isnt nearly as bad. And you can pick up something actually really decent to eat. Whether its fast food or chain food conyers has it. Conyers is probably the best place to stop when it comes to grabbing a bite to eat or possiably staying in the genral atlanta area.
Driving through atlanta.
If you not careful when driving through atlanta the right lane might end of onto another interstate and theirs now way you can escape as both lanes will curve off with very little warning. I have had to turn around twice because of this. Also to make matters worst their always a cop breathing down your back. Atlanta has a real cop problem. Sometimes theirs one every 5 miles just sitting and waiting for that one poor soul going 2 over the speed limit. To have that many cops staking out at the begging and end of the city says to visitors your not welcome but we want your money anyway even though your just heading through. But as long as you keep to the speed limit you should be fine going through atlanta. Most of the roads going in and out of atlanta are pretty smooth and I dont see any really potential road problems going through atlanta.
Staying in Atlanta.
Between Coca Cola, Cnn and Six flags theirs allot of things to do in Atlanta but theirs one problem they never list how the hell to get to it off the freeway. So a much needed map is required just to find the stuff. Coca Cola tour is deffintley worth it and should be done atleast once. Cnn tour its ok I guess if your a news junkie its worth it. Six Flags was good deffintley for the thrill seeker although the park needs serious maintence in some areas. and of course the race track. Becareful atlanta is a mad house during race day and pre race day. Finding a hotel is hard and if you do even the most outter most surroudning areas of atlanta jack their price way hi. Even inside atlant the smallest of hotels charge 5 star prices. Some charge so much its beyond all reasoning. When we went through atlanta staying one night we didnt know it was race day and we came in late. We told the later at the desk we need a room. We were told it was gonna be 150 dollars for one night and this was at a Holiday inn Express. I mean especially considering that the race was over and people where heading home the next day. They should have just let us stay at the base rate. I called for the manager and the manager came out and we had a very nice hour conversation and i got him to knock the rate to 50 bucks. The holiday inn express was very nice.
Atlanta in General.
Atlanta dosent have along the freeway allot of homegrown resturants its mostly chain resturants. Its sorta sad in a way considering if you want some big time southern food its gonna be hard to find unless you go off the freeway and really look. The downtown area at night is not real liveley and driving through it during the day you wonder where is everybody. Another fact would be is that living in the downtown area especially apartment wise almost all apartments in atlanta are on some big freaking hill. Its almost sickening how many up and down hills you drive through just to get to the nearest mc donalds or to the nearest mall. I think flat bridges or land filling would have gone a long way in fixing the up and down hill problem. For a manual car atlanta is a nightmare. Atlanta has some nice malls and shopping in atlanta is pretty good. Their are two big malls one around the douglasville area and one on the eastern side of atlanta. I have visited both and both are very nice. Also you see a good business presence in atlant which i think is good because it shows the city does have a workforce backbone and its not just tourist that keeps it alive.
Great things about Atlanta.
Atlanta has allot to offer and people should go to atlanta and atleast visit it once. Atlanta is like how the other southern citys wanted to be but never end up happening. So yes atlanta is the place to be in the south.
Recommended:
Yes
Best Suited For: Families
Best Time to Travel Here: Mar - May
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