Holiday Inn Resort Jekyll Island Georgia opened this week as a three story, 157 room hotel with 1/4 mile beachfront in the coastal Golden Isles resort setting. Jekyll Island is a hot spot for brand hotels with Holiday Inn Resort opened this week and Westin Jekyll Island opening next month on April 9. Hyatt Place…
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Hotel Review: Hyatt Regency Savannah
Historic Savannah, Georgia has two Hyatt brand hotels with the older Hyatt Regency Savannah on the riverfront and Andaz Savannah on Ellis Square, two blocks from the river and less than five minutes walk to the Hyatt Regency. Given that both hotels are Hyatt Gold Passport Category 4 hotels for 15,000 point per night, Andaz…
Savannah’s ’Crown Jewels’ Monument Squares
The squares of Savannah, Georgia shed plenty of history on the Revolutionary and Civil Wars through monuments and signs. My earlier post described five of the Savannah’s 22 squares from Ellis Square to Chatham Square and Forsyth Park. This post describes the five city squares along Bull Street walking from Forsyth Park back to the riverfront.…
Southern City in Green: Savannah’s 22 Squares
I love to walk and explore my surroundings wherever I am. Green park spaces and large Southern live oaks provided shade from the cloudless skies where the sun was rising for a blazing hot day on the streets of Savannah on Cinco de Mayo. The temperature reached 93 on May 5 and was only one degree off…
Hotel Reviews Bohemian Hotel Savannah Riverfront, Marriott Autograph Collection
Bohemian Hotel Savannah Riverfront is one of two highly rated Kessler Hotels in Savannah that are part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection. The hotel is in the rarified air of 32 hotels worldwide in Marriott Rewards category 9, the highest level for Marriott Rewards hotels at 45,000 points per night. Only some higher tier Ritz-Carlton brand…
St. Simons Island of Georgia’s Golden Isles
The landscape of southern coastal Georgia in late afternoon sunlight was one of the prettiest sights I saw on my Atlantic coastal road trip. Once I crossed the state line at St. Marys River into southern coastal Georgia, the landscape seemed different from what I had seen in northern Florida. U.S. Route 17 parallels I-95…