Atlanta is one of America's fastest budding cities and offers accommodation at 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 star Atlanta hotels. The average retail price for hotels in Atlanta varies from $51/night to $158/night depending on the ranking of the hotel. Royal Suites Atlantic Palace has a comfortable and luxurious ambience.

Atlanta's multi ethnic population offers diverse dining options. The chain eateries serve here from barbecued chicken to fried catfish. The natives are very fond of Mary Mac's Tea Room and Thelma's Kitchen, which are particularly renowned for their vegetables. The restaurants that serve true southern flavor often have the longest duration of waits and have also been in business since long.

The city's casual dining offers great food along with comfortable ambience and are ideal for a family hangout. For breakfast and brunch Flying Biscuit Café, OK Café, Majestic Food Shop, and Huey's – a New Orleans styled eatery. Anthony's an Antebellum-styled restaurant offers continental and modern southern cuisine. The Abbey has to offer Atlanta's time-honored dining experience in a church. The cuisine here varies from Maine lobster creme brulee to herb-crusted lamb. Veni Vidi Vici located in 41 Fourteenth Street, 404-875-8424, Buckhead Life Restaurants is ideal for pre-theater dining. The classic Italian flavor along with wide-ranging list of wine is delectable. Mick located in 3393 Peachtree Rd. is famous for burgers, great sandwiches, old-fashioned meat loaf and chicken pot pies. Nava's cuisine has a south-western flavor, with Latin and Native American influences. The wine here is expensive. Chopstix has all the relishing Hong Kong delicacies. The best of new and old cuisine come together at The Savoy Bar & Grill. Here modern and already established Southern cuisine is served in the beautiful notable setting of The Georgian Terrace Hotel.

The Dining Experience at The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead is wonderful. Famous for its nationally-recognized dining, The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead is unprecedented for its range of dining experiences for couples, families and children. The city's fine dining is marvelous. There are plenty of venues to impress your date. The list of fine dining include the names of Uncle Tai, Maggiano's Little Italy, Blue Ridge Grill, Sylvia's – Harlem based restaurant, and Bluepointe featuring sumptuous American fusion cuisine. Continental, Italian, Latin, French, Seafood and steakhouses also do a good business here.

The city of Atlanta is an abode of various educational institutions that proffer opportunities for pursuing studies at higher level. Georgia's HOPE scholarship curriculum also takes over the responsibility to pay tuition fee for any Georgia student who has earned no less than a B average and chooses to enroll in a state college or university. Clark Atlanta University is a private, undergraduate and graduate institution.

It was formed after the Clark College and Atlanta University consolidated and targeted at the same objectives. The university is an integral part of the Atlanta University Center, which includes various colleges. Emory University is an undergraduate, graduate, and research institution and is one of the largest privately running universities not in the south but in the United States. Oxford College is affiliated to Emory University. Students at Oxford complete their first two years of their degree in the college, then they automatically become eligible to continue their studies at Emory College. The University's Goizueta Business School has the recognition of being the 22nd celebrated institution (Business Week) and 18th (Forbes) for their MBA program. Georgia State University (GSU) is located in the downtown area of Atlanta and serves more than 28,000 students. It is one of Georgia's four research universities. The university has also made a space for itself in the fields of astronomy, philosophy, law, urban policy studies, respiratory therapy, urban geography, community psychology and sociology, music, nursing, and physical therapy. Mercer University is a Baptist-affiliated institution and is a privately operated university. The university's campuses in Atlanta include the Southern School of Pharmacy, James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology, Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, College of Continuing and Professional Studies and programs of the Tift College of Education and Stetson School of Business and Economics. Oglethorpe University is a liberal arts college and is a private institution. It is named after James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia.

Atlanta Universities

• Emory University
• Geogia Tech Unioversity

Nightlife in the city of Atlanta is glitzy and ranges from intimate bars and night clubs to live music venues and swank raucous dance clubs. Some of the luxurious bars stay open until 0400. Relatively bottled imports are much expensive than the draught beers in the clubs. Little Five Points also known as the ‘Greenwich Village’ of Atlanta has a small group of live music clubs.

The performance theatres located here host the city's renowned artists. For the amateur and street performers the small plaza area is a hangout. Buckhead is the city's most happening spot and is also famous for attracting young and smart crowd, who pack the bars, particularly on Friday nights. The clubs here are clustered in a very small area. The leading among them are chic Tongue and Groove and Sambuca Jazz Café. Midtown neighborhoods also have numerous music venues and night clubs to suit everybody's fancy. The area is especially famous for its gay population. The resident clubs here offers some of the city's finest dancing, with right to permission with only proper dress codes. The Piedmont Park is famous for hosting the Gay Pride Festival to the Montreux-Atlanta International Music Festival and the Dogwood Festival. The law passed by the Atlanta City Council prohibits the youngsters under 21 to enter a pub but some of them have the clause of 18 years and above. Andrews Upstairs is an expensive music and leisure venue that features live regional and national music and late night dancing with Atlanta's hottest DJs.

The Beer Mug is the first and the most leading spots tavern in Atlanta and has the reputation of being the landmark drinking institution. For more than five decades Buckhead Pool Hall has been a celebrated for students, professionals, cabbies, police and politicians. Celebrity Rock Café is international club and witnesses most of the hip hop on Wednesdays, European dance on Thursdays, Latin salsa and meringue on Fridays and Saturdays, and jazz, blues and R&B on Sundays. The nightlife in the Highlands is quiet and serene. The bars and pubs here are not showy.

The city of Atlanta is full of enthusiastic activities. The pulse of the city is undoubtedly invigorating. Also known as the "Sports Capital of the World," the city houses MLB's Atlanta Braves, NFL's Atlanta Falcons, the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers. The three state-of-the-art sports facilities are Philips Arena, the Georgia Dome, and Ted Turner Field. In 1995, the Braves won the World Series with thirteen divisional championships since 1991.

The Atlanta Falcons won the division title three times. The city hosted the 1996 Olympic Games, the Braves' World Series Games, two Super Bowls, the Peach Bowl, NCAA Regional and Final Four basketball tournaments and the SEC Championship Game. At present the city hosts college football's yearly Peach Bowl and the Peachtree Road Race, which is also the world's largest 10K race. Various events help make Atlanta the hub of entertainment in the South. On the weekends, the locals and visitors like to get out of the city to Stone Mountain. The improved city's golf clubs are located in the north of the city. Stone Mountain Golf Club features two public courses, Stonemont and Lakemont. Stonemont is the most acclaimed one. Atlanta Motor Speedway hosts the two NASCAR races, the Coca-Cola 500 and the NAPA 500. It is a 2.5km (1.5-mile) speedway track in Hampton, Georgia. In the month of April, the Atlanta Athletic Club hosts a Tennis Challenge event. The Chattahoochee River is considered as one of the America's ten best whitewater rafting venues. According to the age groups and accessibility the sections have been set up since some areas are prone to the whirlpools.

Progressively the sports in the city have contributed over $4.5 billion into the local economy. From 2001 to 2003, the city also housed of the Atlanta Beat soccer team of the now-defunct Women's United Soccer Association. Among other games the city also hosts the tournaments of tennis, Olympic events, rugby, horse racing, boxing, WNBA, ice skating, wrestling, Formula 1 and Indy Racing.

Atlanta Sports

• Atlanta Hawks Official Site : NBA
• Atlanta Falcons Official Site : NFL
• Atlanta Braves Official site : MLB
• Atlanta Thrashers Official Site : NHL