Atlanta - The Delaplaine 2022 Long Weekend Guide

By Andrew Delaplaine

A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Atlanta, whether your trip takes you to Downtown, Midtown, Buckhead, East Atlanta, Inman Park or Little Five Points.

"I'd been through the airport a hundred times before I ever had a chance to spend 2 days in Atlanta. This book was just fine for me." --- Fred G, Seattle

 

"I actually live in Atlanta and bought this book as a joke. I found three restaurants I'd never even heard of-and loved all three!" --- Jerry A., Buckhead

 

 

You'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.

 

 =LODGINGS (in several parts of Atlanta) variously priced =

 

 FINE & BUDGET RESTAURANTS, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found.

 

 =PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.

 

 = SHOPPING -- A handful of interesting ideas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gramercy Park Press
• Release date: Aug 6, 2021
• ISBN: 1393010180

Andrew Delaplaine

Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: [e-mail] He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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ATLANTA

The Delaplaine

2022

Long Weekend

Guide

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Andrew Delaplaine

NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 – WHY ATLANTA?

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Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT

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Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY

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Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT

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Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE

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Chapter 6 – GAY NIGHTLIFE

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Chapter 7 - WHAT TO SEE & DO

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Chapter 8 – SHOPPING & SERVICES

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MAPS are at the end of the book

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Chapter 1

WHY ATLANTA?

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Hotlanta?

There’s no city that can lay a greater claim to represent what used to be termed the New South than the city of Atlanta.

It was burned down in the Civil War (or as my Fifth Grade teacher Mrs. McCutcheon sternly reminded me in the 1960s, the War of Northern Aggression) during General Sherman’s famous March to the Sea, and to this day remains the only major American city completely annihilated by war. Sherman burned all the railroad depots, uprooted the tracks, burned every business to the ground and for good measure to show that he meant it, burned down two-thirds of the private homes.

Perhaps that’s why Atlanta’s resurgence so captured the imagination. When it became the home of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta took on yet another level of symbolic importance.

Non-natives are familiar if not with Atlanta itself, then surely with its huge airport. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport, with more than 88 million annual passengers. (By comparison, London’s Heathrow only has 64 million people passing through it.)

Hosting the Olympics in 1996 gave Atlanta an international profile and drove many upgrades to the city. The MARTA public transport system is efficient and a major addition to the city’s infrastructure. The World Congress Center was built to attract the most desirable convention business and it has worked.

It’s Hotlanta all right.

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Chapter 2

GETTING ABOUT

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Atlanta is unique in that it has 3 separate skylines. Downtown, Midtown and Buckhead each has its own skyline that would make an admirable statement by itself.

DOWNTOWN consists of Five Points, Centennial Park, Sweet Auburn, Castleberry Hill and the Hotel District. This is where you’ll find the state Capitol, City Hall, the CNN Center, Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola Museum. While most tourists congregate in Downtown, I advise you not to make the same mistake. Locals tend to disappear from Downtown after dark, so you should follow them to one of the many completely different neighborhoods they go to at night.

MIDTOWN is the area just north of Downtown. It’s a major business and residential district with big buildings and a concentrated nightlife section. Piedmont Park, the Woodruff Arts Center and the Georgia Tech campus are located here.

BUCKHEAD is a few miles north of Midtown. It’s a popular business and nightlife area. Buckhead is surrounded by neighboring Brookwood Hills, as well as Peachtree Battle, Lindbergh Center, and the Governor's Mansion.

EAST ATLANTA, also called East Atlanta Village, has great neighborhoods with beautiful homes, some of the best bars and restaurants in town and a bustling shopping scene. It's a gentrifying area, but it's cool.  It's south of I-20 and Moreland Avenue.

INMAN PARK, LITTLE FIVE POINTS, CANDLER PARK are clustered together and are a center for nightlife and no-hype restaurants favored by the locals. Little Five Points has great murals you’ll see as you walk around.

VIRGINIA-HIGHLANDS is nearby—it has some of the nicer housing in the area.

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BY CAR

As anyone who’s been here knows, downtown traffic in Atlanta is a