If you told your author during his college days at the University of Georgia that the fiercely independent coffeehouse Jittery Joe’s would someday sit inside a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, he would have had you committed. But here it sits, one of many positives at this 444-room neoclassical luxury downtown hotel.
The sexy lobby – all midnight-blue banquettes and chandeliers shrouded in glass drums – leads to richly appointed rooms with marble bathtubs – not exactly common in Atlanta. Parking is $45.