Hotel
 

Is anyone staying at a Hilton hotel nearby to the restaurant? I've never been to ATL and I'm curious to know about what's closest etc.
I'll be using points and they are with Hilton ;)

There are two:

1. Embassy Suites Atlanta - Buckhead (Four blocks to Prime)
3285 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404-261-7733

2. Doubletree Hotel Atlanta-Buckhead (Six blocks to Prime)
3342 Peachtree Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30326
Tel: 404-231-1234

Both have free hotel shuttles to/from Lenox Mall where Prime is.

Belle, Thank you so much!!! I went ahead and booked at the Embassy Suites.

Mrs Nub is excited she has been begging to attend a "DO" for a while. I hope this counts as an anniversary present for her. We are celebrating seven years on Sat.

Not at all, Juanefny.

Reminder bump.

Saturday afternoon may be a rough time to travel to ATL:
http://www.ajc.com/news/storms-could...re-485963.html

Watch the weather and maybe SDC to an earlier flight?

I cant make any promises, but I'll try to be there, too. I have some girls coming in town tonight for the Luna Halo gig at Vinyl. As it's been literally YEARS since we've seen each other, it might be a very late night!! If I can crawl out of bed, I'll show up.

early ATL arrivals
 

It looks like a small group of us are scheduled to arrive well in advance of the 4:30 SC meet-up in A17. I propose that whoever is interested join together for an informal unofficial pre-meetup also in the A17 SC. I know several of us are on flights from MSP and DTW just before 2, plus ifette almost an hour later. Our fearless and inspired organizer (and his +1?) also plans to arrive around 2 from RDU IIRC, but he may have other plans and commitments before the larger official meet-up at 4:30. My personal plan is to go from my plane to the club, have a drink and hang out a bit, maybe about an hour, and then begin to head off by MARTA to my hotel which is very near Prime.

I haven't been in the A17 (but I love the upstairs one in A which is closed on weekends) SC in years, so I don't know its layout or how crowded it's likely to be on a Saturday afternoon, but I guess the best thing is for the first arrival to stake out about a half dozen comfortable seats near the bar and ideally near a window with a view of airplanes. I don't know what I'll be wearing, but I'm a "Diamond in the Wild" in that I usually display my DL glow-in-the-dark luggage tag as well as this year's SPG gift tag on my carry on bag.

The weather looks like it could be a bad day for flying tomorrow. I hope everyone's already been upgraded.

For those coming to the SC, I'll let the attendant know that whoever asks about "the flyertalk group" just to point them in our direction.
Looks like one of our fellow DOers got an OP-UP from TXL!

Unfortunately, I will have to pass. Company requires that I travel on the cheapest flights home, which happen to be the 0540 departure from FLL tomorrow morning.

I hope the weather would be good. LGA-ATL, but the reason I can actually arrive is b/c my JFK-AMS was cancelled (TB rebooked for next week, I think). So, if I get two cancelled...

Got the upgrade :D See you all @ SC A17

Looks like I'll be staying at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead. I couldn't pass up priceline!

yes, 2/2 this year and 6/7 last year on TXL-JFK, not so bad :-)
i am in Atlanta now, see you all tomorrow.

Gah, I can't even remember my last op-up. I think it was in 2002?

I'm in V on DL 1786, but 1499 leaves an hour earlier (6am) and is still F4 (V0). Might SDC depending on if the flight has already boarded by the time I get there and what the upgrade list looks like ;).

Anyhow, as it stands, will arrive at 2:49p so I will just head to A17 and see who's there. (BTW, if anyone needs someone to guest you in, let me know.)

Probable:

MemphisQueen