Editor Pick
Country Inn & Suites Airport-North
- August 24, 2006
- Rated 4 of 5 by
brianestadt from McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Though things didn’t start off well here, our stay at Country Inn & Suites was a very good one. It was recommended to me by a flight attendant who had stayed in Atlanta often.
After checking in very early (we didn’t expect our room to be ready, and it wasn’t — we left our bags in the office), Chris and I went to the business center to book our tickets to the Georgia Aquarium. This went smoothly until I tried to print our confirmation emails that included PDF-format bar codes we had to present at the aquarium. The old Windows computer (nothing makes you appreciate an Apple like a hotel business center) didn’t have Acrobat Reader installed. I downloaded Reader but didn’t have permission to install it. Rather than try to explain the need to install software on their machine, I asked the folks at the front desk if there was another computer I could use.
They were more than accommodating. They set me up at the front-desk reservations machine, but this wasn’t any better. It was incredibly slow and, for whatever reason, would only print one of the two tickets we purchased. After several attempts, an employee offered me the use of the manager’s computer. The tird time was a charm...and the entire time the staff was patient and extremely friendly with me as I tried to negotiate their slow machines. These people all had smiles on their faces and seemed to be having a good time working. That’s always a good sign.
Our room was standard and modern. It was very clean and had no funky odors. Water pressure was good, and the air-conditioning was strong. Thumbs up all around. Since we checked in around 10am, there were none of Country Inn’s trademark fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies awaiting us, but they were available for those checking in later in the day.
There are a handful of restaurants nearby, including chain establishments like Subway and Chili's. But in my opinion, you can’t go to dinner anywhere else but Spondivits. It has fantastic seafood (check out my review in this journal).
The complimentary continental breakfast at Country Inn was wonderful. It featured cold cereal selection, bagels, English muffins, yogurt cups, a couple varieties of juice, coffee, tea, sausage, biscuits, sausage gravy, eggs (precooked and kept warm via sterno), and a waffle-maker with cups of waffle batter. And I’m probably forgetting a couple things. It was a VERY nice hotel breakfast in a very nice airport hotel.
As is standard, the airport shuttle was complimentary. A taxi downtown for the aquarium cost us $30 one-way.
From journal Atlanta, as Seen During an Overnight Layover