Atlanta is one of the country's greatest event cities, especially since it hosted the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. The Georgia World Congress Center actually opened 20 years earlier and, with the addition of Centennial Olympic Park, has become the centerpiece of a cluster of fine hotels. Event planners can make accommodations beyond what their attendees may expect, with more than 12,000 hotel rooms in a nine-block radius.
On the intimate side with only 242 rooms, this Hilton property offers e-vents booking for up to 25 guest rooms and event space in a 200-seat ballroom. It's also one of the closest hotels to the World Congress Center.
Downtown Atlanta's Westin property combines 1,068 guest rooms and 53 meeting spaces, with up to 15,120-square-feet on seven floors. The top two of these floors are given to wedge-shaped meeting rooms around a service core.
A property in the Marriott network, the Glenn is boutique-sized at 110 guest rooms, but nevertheless offers 2,000-square-feet of flexible meeting space, plus satellite facilities.
Claiming space within the World Congress Center complex, the Omni boasts 1,070 guest rooms and 45 meeting rooms totaling 120,000 square feet, seating 2,212 in theater style or 1,660 at banquet tables.
With 1,260 guest rooms and 180,000 square feet of function space--both fixed and flexible classrooms and ballrooms--plus 50,000 square feet of exhibit halls, the Hyatt can accommodate almost any conference or meeting. All that event space is packed onto three levels that run from the main lobby.
