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- Quick stats about this trip:
- ✈️: 1,530 miles
- 🚘: 120 miles
I visited Atlanta during a short weekend family trip to the area. My parents and younger siblings’ road-tripped down to ATL earlier in the week, and the adults flew down in small groups to join in for the weekend. My group flew LGA to ATL roundtrip with Delta, Thursday through Sunday. I booked the flight on Monday prior to the trip, and at that point there were no good point redemptions to be had, so I paid cash.
Upon arriving at ATL we decided to rent a car- while the airport is beautiful and efficient, the car rental counters were a disaster, with lines all the way to the door. We opted to go with National (Chase Sapphire and Amex Platinum perks) but were unable to get our promo codes to properly apply- the guy at the counter was not helpful at all- he told us that they were out of cars (which wasn’t true), and he couldn’t help us with our promotion issues. We finalized the booking online (sans promo) and headed to the lot. Here we once again ran into issues- the first attendant said that because of our status we could go with any vehicle in the lot- we chose one, when a second attendant ran over and said that we could only choose from vehicles parked vertically, and anything parked horizontally was not for us. This went on for a good few minutes until a manager came by to confirm what the second attendant said. I left them a less-than-stellar Google review for this and have since received a free rental car day credit for my troubles (I’m a Google Local Guide with a decent amount of points).
After our car rental drama, we headed to Fuego Mundo for dinner. The food here was absolutely delicious, but what really closed the deal was the pricing- in NY a meal such as this would have cost us at least twice the amount.
We stayed at a VRBO property which had great grounds and a nice-size pool.
On Friday morning we headed to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. If you’re in the area and have some time to kill, it’s not the worst choice for $5. It has a mini-museum and nice grounds, with a nice lookout spot.
The VRBO property was gated, which served as an eiruv on Shabbos, and we had our own minyan and Sefer Torah on the premises.
On Sunday, a group of us headed to Atlanta proper, for a tour of World of Coca Cola. The museum is more of a marketing history museum than anything else (some in my family are in marketing, and they loved it). They had limited flavors to taste due to covid, and after standing in line for a good few minutes an employee came over to tell us that none of the flavors availble are kosher, so we promptly left.
Next, we downloaded a Get Your Guide audio walking tour of downtown Atlanta for $8. They did a pretty good job of covering the basics in an interesting way.
Before heading to the airport for our flight home, we stopped by Formaggio Mio for an early dinner. This place has great ratings on Google, but I was less than impressed. Half the items on the menu were unavailable, the place wasn’t clean, and the service was meh. The pizza was good though.
We had originally intended on visiting the famed Atlanta Aquarium, but by the time we finished at Coca Cola we were unable to get tickets until later in the day, at which point we had to be at the airport for our flight home. That was my only regret on this trip, and a minor one at that, since I hope to be passing through ATL at one time or another in the future.
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