JF. If you do want to rent a car for a day or so in ATL, try Hertz. They partner with Marriot hotels

I usually don't like driving in big cities and never rent a car in European large cities. When in San Francisco, the rented 3 day cruises to the bahamas car was parked for the three days at the downtown hotel and was only taken out of the garage to visit Golden Gate and drive away from SF.
If wife and I could spend the week using the week MARTA pass it would be great. Will rent a car for day trip(s) from Atlanta and or for any must see attractions which are not doable with public transportation.
Have been to Atlanta only on business 3 day cruises to the bahamas - but that at least 8 times - sometimes to Convention Center and others various hotels. The downtown area resembles the earth the day after an alien attack - assuming the entire population has died of some bizarre plague.
I was in Atlanta about a month ago. With a MARTA Pass, you can ride from the airport area right to downtown. From there you can easily walk to sites such as the Georgia Aquarium, World of Coca Cola, Millennium Olympic Park, and the CNN Center. You'll have to ride the subway 3 day cruises to the bahamas again to get to places like the Capitol Building, Four Points, Underground Atlanta, the Varsity, and the High Museum of Art. By judicious bus riding OR a lot of walking; you can get to the Carter Center, MLK National Historic Site, Cyclorama, and the Atlanta Zoo.
Note that there are car rental places just a few blocks from the Buckhead MARTA Station, at which I found rental prices far lower than at the airport or downtown. May or may not be worth the subway ride.
Atlanta is far more like Miami and Orlando than it is like San Francisco. The traffic is not fierce if you can avoid rush hours. I like the suggestion above to take MARTA when you can, then rent a car in Buckhead for the rest of your trip, probably returning it at the airport 3 day cruises to the bahamas when you are finished.
A car would allow you to do anything you want outside the central city and to visit some of the towns within a reasonable driving radius 3 day cruises to the bahamas -- Athens, Carrollton, Madison -- or even go to the mountains.
Again, if your family can organize its schedule well, you can get to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and ride MARTA to Downtown and other tourist stops. That way, you need only rent a car when going to places away from the city itself.
shows which stations have free parking. The nearest to downtown 3 day cruises to the bahamas happens to be "West End." Residents of Atlanta will be more knowledgeable about which stations would be the best at which to park a car for the day.
JF. If you do want to rent a car for a day or so in ATL, try Hertz. They partner with Marriot 3 day cruises to the bahamas hotels or Enterprise. Do not get a car from the airport. It will be twice as high as getting a car off site.
I called the hotel and they confirmed that the shuttle 3 day cruises to the bahamas is complimentary 3 day cruises to the bahamas regardless of how many times you use back and forth to the airport and it runs approximately every 20 minutes, so that will be excellent when going downtown.
As far as renting cars, I also usually bid on car rentals and as a rule of thumb am never unhappy. I expect to get a compact car at around 20/25 dollars a day, through bidding. I wonder if I would be able to get better prices downtown.
We have been three times to Holland. Those stays totalled 3 day cruises to the bahamas about 20 days and thusfar we have spent only one day in Amsterdam. There are so many beautiful little towns in Holland, that we never really think worthwhile "wasting" our time with Amsterdam.
Well coming from a city where you can walk everywhere (not all in one day of course) - this is what I am used to and what I enjoy. I really dislike cities that don't have a lot of pedestrians, and streets lines with shops of all types, cafes, restaurants, small parks etc. Visiting a city like that is really necessary to me - I can;t stand the places that are nothing but streets, office buildings and empty sidewalks.
Well, ny, you are certainly not talking about the Atlanta I know! There are interesting, walkable neighborhoods separated by wide expanses where a car is necessary. Sort of like LA without palm trees.
On the other hand, driving in Atlanta is hellish in my experience only at commuting time because very few people take public 3 day cruises to the bahamas transportation. Otherwise, you have the country-driver-in-what-has-become-a-suburb problem, but you have that around Boston and in Fairfield 3 day cruises to the bahamas County, too.
But in the central part that I have visited there are essentially no people on the street - just lots of giant office buildings and empty sidewalks. Not vibrant 3 day cruises to the bahamas streets lined with shops of every variety, a host of restaurants - many with outdoor cafes, interspersed with small parks and seating areas - and tens of thousands of people walking everywhere. To me - that is what a city center should be. Not just an overgrown office 3 day cruises to the bahamas park plopped down where a living city should be.
Yes, you are right about downtown Atlanta. It's true. Ditto many other formerly wonderful American cities. Which is why so many of us go to Europe. Or Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. There is still something there there.
The Stone Mountain Park is a very good suggestion. Could you give a rough idea what would the cost be altogheter for a couple 3 day cruises to the bahamas to spend the day at the park? Just a really rough idea with lunch for two. Can one do a picnic at the park? Do you know if barbecueing is permitted?
I don't have anything to add but you are doing a good job describing what you want. We often get posters who just ask, "What would you do with a week in Atlanta?" and then never give any more details.