FIRST Packages for Championships

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Originally Posted by KathieK

Your team can start doing research right now, looking at all the hotels in Atlanta. ....their location in regard to the venue and mass transportation. ....Are they near Centennial Park (great for burning off energy a the end of the day) .....If traveling by Air (I'm assuming you will be), how will you get to the hotel with all your stuff, from the airport?...

I have found 2 maps that were very helpful when we were looking into these very issues in 2004 (the first year in Atlanta.)

They are:

Downtown Atlanta:
http://www.centennialpark.com/images/Downtown%20map.pdf

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The immediate area of the Georgia World Congress Center & Centennial Olympic Park:

http://www.gwcc.com/images/gwccmap.pdf

(I'm not sure where the new Aquarium is in those maps though)

And another useful map, this time for restaurants:

http://first.atlanta.net/media/docs/...%20&%20key.pdf

The MARTA system takes you pretty much anywhere you want to go and is relatively cheap (with discounted group weekend ride packages usually offered as well). The longest ride you will have will be the one from the airport to this vicinity which is about 20-30 minutes or so(?)
(I didn't go last year, so I'm not absolutely sure, but it's not that far).