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Athens, Georgia
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| Athens provides a good study in how the New South | Can I make the Athens reservation by phone? We |
| coexists with the Old South. Athens has been the | would be happy to help you make any Athens hotel |
| home of the University of Georgia, the first land-grant | reservation by phone. You can call our toll free |
| university in the U.S., since the school was chartered | number between the hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| in 1785. A visit to the campus is well worth your time. | Monday through Friday (CST). 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
| Begin at the University of Georgia Visitors Center, | Saturday and Sunday. |
| Four Towers Building, Campus Station Road, in | |
| Athens. Phone 706-542-0842. | How can I be sure information about my credit card is |
| | secure? We use secure-socket-layer (SSL) |
| The campus includes Sanford Stadium, where UGA | encryption, the standard encryption on the Internet. |
| fans cheer for the Georgia Bulldogs football team, | This type of encryption allows you to feel confident |
| which is spelled AND pronounced DAWGS. This is | and secure about supplying personal and credit |
| well demonstrated during football season as fans | card information. |
| yell, in unison, Go You Hairy DAWGS! or Hunker | |
| Down Hairy DAWGS! The Bulldogs are former | How will I know when my reservation is confirmed? |
| National Champions and (many times) Southeastern | Our confirmation number displayed immediately |
| Conference Champions. | upon successfully making your reservation. Our |
| | systems work behind the scenes to email you the |
| The UGA campus includes the State Botanical | final confirmation number. |
| Garden, where your family can enjoy a stroll along | |
| five miles of wooded, floral trails and more than 300 | Are free shuttles supplied from the airport to the |
| acres of grounds on the Middle Oconee River. While | hotel? Some hotels do offer free shuttle services |
| some of the country's botanical gardens are boring, | from the airport but not all. Please verify this |
| stuffy places to take the family, the gorgelike ravines | information on the property information page, if this is |
| and spring-fed streams of this garden include plenty | import to you. |
| of wide open spaces where children can run, skip, | |
| hop, jump, and whoop and holler to their hearts' | Is there a minimum age requirements to reserve a |
| content. The collection of plants includes local, as | room? A minimum age of 18 is required by most |
| well as tropical and semitropical, plants. If you do | hotels to book a room. Some require the guest(s) be |
| bring kids, make sure they see the interesting | 21. These requirements and other amenities |
| garden of medicinal plants. An especially nice rose | information on the property "Detail" pages. |
| garden blooms May-November. | |
| | Is free breakfast available? Some hotels offer free |
| A lively music scene (supported by students from the | breakfast with each room night booked. This |
| University of Georgia) flourishes in the bars, clubs | information can be found on the property information |
| and coffeehouses of the restored downtown (it | "detail" page for your specific property. |
| brought the world such bands as R.E.M. and the | |
| B-52s). But you don't have to look far to find the Old | Can I book the reservation to stay tonight? Some |
| South: It's evident in the many Greek Revival homes | hotels accept reservations until 3:00pm on the arrival |
| and buildings that dot the city. The best example is | day. Only hotels that follow this policy will show when |
| the Taylor-Grady House. Its 13 columns were meant | the today's arrival date is typed into the search form. |
| to symbolize the original U.S. colonies. | |
| | Can you give driving directions? Yes, click the map |
| The University of Georgia, across the street from | link displayed on the property "Detail" page. This |
| downtown, boasts a number of these Greek Revival | informative map will give you the main cross streets |
| buildings, including Demosthenian Hall and the | and address. Click the tab: "directions", type in your |
| president's house. The university is also the home of | address and click "submit". A detailed list of where to |
| the Georgia Museum of Art, whose collection | turn and how many miles will be displayed. |
| emphasizes Italian Renaissance and 19th- and | |
| 20th-century American paintings. | Instant confirmation, what does that mean? We |
| | coordinate closely with the properties in the |
| Among the city's off-campus sights is the | database. Only those with room availability for the |
| Church-Waddel-Brumby House, the oldest house in | requested dates can be displayed and booked |
| the city, now serving as the visitors center. | through our system. After receiving confirmation on |
| | your credit card amount, the system instantly issues |
| Before leaving town, take a look at the unusual | a confirmation on the computer screen. We also |
| double-barreled cannon at City Hall: It was designed | forward the hotel's official confirmation number within |
| to fire two cannon balls connected by a chain, but it | 48 hours. |
| was only tested once. That firing is said to have | |
| killed an innocent cow and destroyed a chimney. | "Internet hot deals", what is it? We work directly with |
| Also in the isn't-that-just-nuts? department, Athens is | many hotels to provide the lowest possible rates |
| home to The Tree That Owns Itself. In gratitude to a | available on the Internet. In most cases, these rates |
| white oak that had provided good shade, a property | are lower than all other online websites. These are |
| owner deeded possession of a small chunk of land | designated with a "hot-deals" link and are listed first |
| to the tree. Though the original oak was destroyed in | for search performed by destination city. |
| a storm in 1942, possession of the parcel passed to | |
| its offspring (an acorn), which has grown into another | What are additional fees and taxes? Each city/state |
| upstanding property owner. Athens is 65 mi/105 km | has different rates for taxes. Taxes are calculated |
| east of Atlanta. | and displayed on the hotel reservation amount. For |
| | some hotels there are additional fees charged to |
| Rabbittown is an unincorporated hamlet a few miles | your room reservation. These additional charges |
| above Gainesville. There, on an otherwise | help us have the lowest rates on the Internet. |
| unremarkable dirt road, sits the home of R.A. Miller. | |
| Though not a household name in the world of high | How do you book a room for someone else? You |
| art, the elderly former minister has gained a cult | can us our system to book a room for someone else. |
| following over the years for his makeshift sculptures | Make sure you include that persons information as |
| cobbled together from scrap metal, engine parts and | the guest. You can have a different person paying |
| other pieces of the world's flotsam and jetsam. | with their credit card than the name and address of |
| These peek out from every nook of his property, like | the guest staying in the room . |
| a junkyard brought to life. As one might expect from a | |
| onetime man of the cloth, Miller often adorns his | Do I pay for the entire reservation amount or do I just |
| sculptures with religious messages. Rabbittown is 40 | make a deposit to hold the room? It depends on the |
| mi/65 km northwest of Athens. | room you book. Some of our partners require just a |
| | $5.00 room night deposit to hold your room while |
| The town of Washington boasts more than 100 | others require a full payment for the room at the time |
| colonial, antebellum and Victorian buildings. Notable | of your reservation. Please refer to the amount |
| is the restored home of Robert Toombs, a | displayed on the confirmation page to see what your |
| recalcitrant politician who hated the Union for political | credit card will be charged upon making the |
| reasons and hated the Confederacy almost as much | reservation. |
| because it did not elect him its president. 216 East | |
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