Downtown Atlanta

We stayed at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Downtown Atlanta for 2 nights. The drive was easy and took only 5 hours due to no traffic. We arrived at 3 pm and cooled off a little due to the over 100 degree temperature. We wondered what we were thinking leaving Florida which was not supposed to be as hot coming to the city with the highest expected temps in the south! 


We set off to walk to the Underground. It was only about a 10 minute walk - really everything downtown seems to be 10 minutes from where we were. I heard that the Underground was not really worth the trip, it was pretty accurate. I felt so sad at how that place looks like it was once a really neat, hoping place. All the stores were pretty ghetto and there just wasn't much there. We literally spent maybe 20 minutes and that was going through the whole thing. I was glad that we chose to walk rather than drive. I would have been upset paying $7 to park for that.  

I thought that this street one our way to the Underground was really pretty

It amazes me how everywhere you look in downtown there is stuff for Coke

Going down to the entrance of Underground

We then began walking and came across the Olympic Centennial Park. It was SO hot! The little water splash fountains were packed with people. We got an Italian Ice and stayed in the shade. We should have stuck around to watch one of the water shows where the water at the fountains light up with color and play to music for about a half hour. Omar didn't want to go back later that evening for one of the shows and so I thought we would go on Tuesday night. Too bad they closed it down for maintenance until after July 4. They have this whole website telling people things they should know about the park - I think that is something people would want to know who are planning a visit. 

The Splash Pad at the Olympic Park

I think that next time we come to Atlanta we will plan to get a City Pass. I knew if we were doing 6 Flags and only had one day it wouldn't be enough time to do all the stuff you get with a City Pass and a City Pass is the only way to make it worth it. It costs $69/adult but you get the Coke Factory, Aquarium, CNN Tour, and then either the High Museum of Art or Fernbank Musuem of Natural History along with the Atlanta Zoo or Atlanta History Center. All of that would take more than 1 day to do. I think I would also go spend time in Highland/Little 5 Points and see about going to do the Gone with the Wind Tour stuff.