Visiting- What to See? (Atlanta, Savannah: condo, work, house)

[BLAZER PROPHET]

MY wife & I (early 50's) are visiting Atlanta. We will have 4 full days (Fridday thru Monday). So far, our agenda looks like this:

Friday- CNN, Coke World, Aquarium

Saturday- Stone Mountian (morning is taken with friends)

Sunday- church, tour annebilium (spelling?) areas

Monday (Memorial Day)- chill and have a nice huge bar-b-q with friends

Any other suggestions?

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by BLAZER PROPHET

Sunday- church, tour annebilium (spelling?) areas

Sorry, Atlanta has no antebellum neighborhoods...the earliest house styles you'll find here are Late Victorian.
If you want an antebellum fix, the closest place for that is the town of Madison, about 1 hr east of the city on I-20.
I would also suggest the Margaret Mitchell House Museum (10th and Peachtree) and the Cyclorama in Grant Park (a narrated tour of an enormous "painting in the round" of the Battle of Atlanta).

[atlantagreg30127]

Unless you really have a strong long time interest in wanting to see the CNN tour, skip it. Long lines, lots of sneezing people in it, and you see few really neat things (unless again, you just have an interest in studio tours). I've only known three people who have gone to the new World of Coke museum as well, and all of their reactions were "yawn". They said if you had young kids (none of them did) they might have some fun out of it, but none of them were overly impressed with it. Just their opinions - I haven't been to the new one. P.S. - stick to the Centennial Park area around the Aquarium when in that part of downtown ... if you venture over to the "Five Points" area (where the "Underground" mall is), you'll enter the land of 1000 bums and be asked for money 110 times in 5 minutes.


If weather permits the Atlanta Botanical Gardens at Piedmont Park are really nice and a relaxing place to wind down.

Stone Mountain Park actually has a recreated Antebellum plantation area - it's about as close as you're going to get anywhere around here. You'd need to hit Savannah or Charleston SC for a lot of the real stuff.

Zoo Atlanta at Grant Park is smaller than some, but it has some interesting exhibits. If weather permits, again. Eat before you go - the main eatery there has cooties.

Sounds hokey, but if you like funky furniture and have never been to an IKEA store, go to it at Atlantic Station (17th street area). Atlantic Station is kind of a generic shopping/condo district that's new and not super thrilling, but if you're from a smaller area that doens't have an IKEA store it can be an interesting place.

If you can handle purple hair, body piercings, and goth, check out the "Little Five Points" area. Hippies, funky, freaky, etc. Foreign junk shops, crystal stone shops, etc. A few bums too - don't act like a tourist.


Have fun.

[chip1980]

The Cyclorama
Rhodes Hall
Margaret Mitchell House
High Museum
Carlos Museum
Atlanta Zoo
The Botanical Gardens
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by chip1980

The Cyclorama
Rhodes Hall
Margaret Mitchell House
High Museum
Carlos Museum
Atlanta Zoo
The Botanical Gardens
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

Good list Chip

[ffej]

FWIW, I found the CNN tour and the Coke museum to be pretty cool. As for crowds, is anything more crowded than the aquarium? On its own, it was a neat place. Factoring in the crowd ... not quite as much.

[RainyRainyDay]

Originally Posted by ffej

FWIW, I found the CNN tour and the Coke museum to be pretty cool. As for crowds, is anything more crowded than the aquarium? On its own, it was a neat place. Factoring in the crowd ... not quite as much.

I haven't been on the CNN tour but have thought of going, so am encouraged by this positive review from someone who saw the aquarium much as I did.

I've been to fine aquariums in Vancouver, Canada; Monterey Bay, CA; Maui; Charleston, SC; Chattanooga. Having seen all those, the Georgia aquarium struck me as nice, not stupendous, and over-crowded. If you haven't seen a world-class aquarium before then I would say the Georgia aquarium is a must-see.

[itpgirl]

Don't forget a tour of Oakland cemetary where Margret Mitchell and Bobby Jones are buried.

[lane421]

Oakland Cemetary is still not open to the public Only to previously booked tours. Check back - hopefully it will open again soon - it is a definite must see in Atlanta and an often overlooked gem of ATL.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by BLAZER PROPHET

Any other suggestions?

Kennesaw Mountain in the NW suburbs is a nice place to visit -- there are still some significant Civil War earthworks and cannon up on the hill, and the view from the top is spectacular.