Atlanta hotel rates, tracked around the big events
This site was an Atlanta hotel guide. Today it does one thing: it looks at what hotel rooms in Atlanta cost, especially on big event weekends. The old guide pages stay online as an archive.
Market data
What big event weekends do to Atlanta hotel rates
In April 2013 this site checked rates at twelve downtown and midtown hotels for the NCAA Final Four weekend, then checked the same rooms one week later. Rooms cost far more on the event weekend, and the gap was not the same at every hotel. The full table is here, along with what it means now that Atlanta is getting eight FIFA World Cup matches in 2026.
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AI tools hotel operations teams actually use
Seven software platforms hotel housekeeping, engineering and front-office teams run on, what each one claims, and where each stops. The order runs from the systems closest to the floor staff outward to the ones closest to the guest.
Read the roundupFrom our archive
These pages are preserved as published between 2013 and 2015. Rates, availability and property names are historical and are not maintained.
Final Four 2013 rate survey
The original April 2, 2013 press release, with the twelve-hotel rate comparison table that the market page is built on.
Buckhead hotels
The uptown district guide, and the neighbourhood that stayed cheapest when downtown rates tripled in 2013.
Atlanta luxury hotels
The luxury round-up covering the Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis and their peers.
Atlanta attractions
Piedmont Park, Stone Mountain, the Atlanta History Center and the Carter Center, as the guide described them.
The 2015 homepage
The site's own front page as it stood in February 2015, kept intact.
Press releases
The full press index from the guide era.