Excellent Place to stay in Atlanta!
The La Quinta Atlanta Perimeter Medical Center is an excellent hotel for the price, features, and location. It is located in what has to be one of the most beautiful areas of Atlanta. Dunwoody, as it is known, is a very nice suburb with brick houses and rolling hills. This Inn has the much appreciated interior hallways. We stayed 2 nights and it was incredibly easy for us to get where we wanted to go. We came to visit Georgia Tech and easily found our way around.
The hotel is less than 2 miles from the MARTA Dunwoody subway station which can take you most anywhere a tourist in Atlanta would want to go: CNN Center, Turner Field, the Airport, Georgia Tech, etc. However if you bring a car, the area has a system of highways (included the dreaded Georgia 400, I-75 and I-285) which let you get around. However I suggest using the surface streets. They are safe, clean, and highly visible. Beware of pedestrians and bicycle riders as they are everywhere in this city, day or night.
The hotel itself is 7 stories high and is located next to the Cox Enterprises Building and not far from the Porsche North American Headquarters, Oracle, HP, and Apple Computer. It is up the street from a Home Depot, Costco, and a Sweet Tomatoes. If you go down to Hammond Rd. towards the MARTA station, you will run into several shopping malls that include stores ranging from Bloomingdales to Best Buy. There is also a Publix, Kroger, and several hospitals nearby.
The hotel itself was nicely decorated like any La Quinta with Suites. It had a large meeting space which you can reserve. The rooms have high speed internet, however it is wired Ethernet and they hope to upgrade to wireless soon. The phones worked and had speakerphone, but it was on the work desk instead of the night table. Once again the LQ double beds feel too small for 2 average people. LodgeNet was also at this hotel offering less than 20 channels, on-demand movies you can rent, Nintendo 64 games at almost $7 an hour, and no hookup for your DVD or Xbox. Atlanta's local ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX stations were on the TV though. So was CNN, CNN Headline News, TBS, TNT, Fox News, ESPN, ESPN2, HBO, and some others I forget.
This hotel also offered breakfast with hot waffles. You make the waffle using given waffle iron and mix. All it takes is 2 minutes. They also offered cereals, teas, bacon, milk, oatmeal, and juices. The lobby doubles as the breakfast area and handles a full house well.
Our rate was $80 a night and we stayed for two nights. Could be a bit cleaner in the rooms (carpet) and the pool (plenty of debris from trees on the ground and in water) but it was more than OK. The bathrooms were large and some rooms have microwaves.