Excellent place to stay if you are visiting Atlanta. The Sales Manager goes out of her way to ensure you have a pleasant stay. I would reccomend this property to everyone.

We stayed one night at the Holiday Inn Select Airport South on Feb 27, 07. We used Priceline and got our hotel for $60. We arrived early to the airport so we decided to go ahead and head to the hotel to see if early check in might be available. Upon calling before arriving we were told they were not any available but they could hold our bags while we went downtown but we were very HAPPY to be told there was a room available once we arrived via their shuttle. The lady at the front desk was VERY helpful and very nice...I believe her name was Joyce....SHE WAS GREAT!! The room was nice and clean. The bathroom was nice with some upgrades. No funny smells or anything. Only complaint was the beds REALLY need to be upgraded or just replaced. They were pretty hard. After checking in and putting our things up we jumped back on the shuttle to the airport to get on Marta. The shuttle driver was awesome!! He was very helpful with downtown information. After returning to the hotel later that afternoon we again left headed to Philips Arena to see a concert. It was about 30min to reach the Arena via Marta. After the concert we made in back to the airport in time to catch the shuttle back to the hotel. Be advised the last shuttle leaves the airport at 12:45AM. Checkout was 12pm....it was great to be able to sleep in before heading back to the airport. Overall....GREAT hotel for $60. I don't think I would pay the $139 advertised on their website.

This is a very nice hotel to stay in prior to your flight. I booked a stay and park package for a trip and parked my car there during my trip. The lady at the front desk told me where to park so they would see the car daily.

The room was nice and the bathroom was very large and very nice. The van driver was very helpful and reminded us when we left the van where to meet the van upon our return. The only negative is there is a lack of a lot of restaurants around the hotel, so you may have to eat at a chain restaurant or at the hotel itself. The breakfast I had at the hotel was excellent.

Another pleasant business-trip surprise. A co-worker and I were booked into a nearby hotel in College Park. She checked in a day earlier than I and called me rather disappointed (and nervous -- she didn't feel safe.) I told her I've give a shot at finding something else for tthe rest of the trip and once again, lucked out on Priceline. When we arrived at the Holiday Inn the next day, we were both relieved to be in a pretty nice hotel.

First surprise -- a hotel bar. Apparently a feature of the Holiday Inn "Select" hotels -- a step up from their Express locations.

At a business hotel, most of the service interaction is at the front desk, and , who was manning the post all the afternoons/evenings we were there was pleasant, mellow, and hardworking, taking care of all phone calls, check-ins, and the convenient sundry store in the lobby.

The house restaurant is not great shakes, but the bar is as mellow, friendly, and welcoming as the front-desk service, and like I said, a welcome rarity in an airport business hotel like this.

Now for the room breakdown, working our way in:

Bathroom: Top notch, and one of the most unique doors I have seen -- it opens in to optionally close (and lock/latch) to separate off the toilet from the rest of the bathroom. Also a unique shower -- you walk in and turn a corner -- no curtain needed. Fog-free shaving mirror to boot.

Desk/workspace: 3 outlets -- big plus. Phone with caller ID (another personal first for this class of hotel). Wired (not wireless, except for the lobby) Internet -- no CAT-5 cable supplied.

Bed: Not the nearly ubiquitous "fluffy cloud" of the Hampton Inns/et. al., but not bad. Miss the down pillows though. One available outlet on the window side for the CPAP'ers out there.

TV: OnCommand is taking over the universe (see my other posts.). Moderately-older tube TV.

Room in general: Ample closet, with clean/new iron and board. Built in safe, along with those white-mesh closet organizer shelves (shades of my first apartment...) Updated-feeling decor. Carpets/paint very clean.

All in all, a good place to stay. A others have said -- clean, nice breakfast -- up there in this genre, minus maybe the bed.

(Oh, and as I alluded to in the title of this review -- if you get a room on the back side, you have a nice view of the places coming in over the trees for landing.)

Chris