My wife and I stayed at the Ellis during a recent trip to Atlanta to tour CNN and to visit the Georgia Aquarium. The hotel's location is excellent for access to both sites as well as the Coca Cola museum. We liked the hotel very much. The rooms are very well decorated, clean and modern. Flat screen TV, wrap around desk, king size bed, and decent view of town.

The only negative is there is no designated load/unload area when you are checking in or out. While they do have valet (at $20 per day), we had to double park when we arrived to unload our luggage.

Otherwise, we plan to return on our next trip to Atlanta

The Ellis was very beautiful. It was clean and modern and the staff was more than helpful. This hotel is much nicer than most I have been to.

We walked from the MARTA station to the hotel with 4 days worth of luggage and it was an easy walk. It is also easy to rent a car (within walking distance) from this location as well. It is worth noting: It is cheaper to rent a car from the locations in down, not at the airport. I would advise taking the MARTA for a few dollars to the hotel and then renting a car from there. Enterprise was $36 from downtown, but $76 from the airport. Parking is also $15-25 at the Ellis if you keep the car over night.

The downside is that downtown does not seem to be the most interesting place to stay. There are few places to eat (Hard Rock, McDonalds and a few good local places) and not many places to buy drinks or snacks to take back to the hotel. We didn't eat at the hotel, but the menu looked good and reasonably priced.

It was a medium-distance walk to the Coca-Cola world and the Aquarium, worth the stop.

Enjoy this hotel!

I stayed at the Ellis on business for one night, 2 days and was really pleased with it.
It's not "an event," as you would get if you stayed at the Westin or the Ritz or the Hyatt, it was just relaxed and comfortable. I stayed in a King Deluxe room which was a corner unit and had a very comfortable, large bed. There was a flat screen in the room with a lot of channels and although there was no wireless in the rooms (there is in the hotel), they had high speed internet that you could just hook up right there on the desk, so doing work in the hotel room was a cinch. Bathrooms are great, showers are great, Zegna shampoo and soap (ohh la la). The only thing I thought was a little weird about the room was that the "mini bar" (it was laid out on the desk) was a bit...dusty. So I'm sure the stuff had been sitting there without being changed for ages.

It is in a great area too, lots of bars and restaurants, right near Americasmart, and a lot of other hotel conference center and the rate here was great!

I didn't get to check out the restaurant but the menu looked good, although I went to check it out twice and it was empty. But at night, the lounge/restaurant area, sounded like it was pretty crowded.

Check out and check in were easy, overall, nothing absolutely spectacular, but a really nice, comfy place to stay.

We checked in to the ellis on Wedneday March 12th. The hotel was very modern, the staff was very helpful. When entered our room it was very clean and the beds were soooo comfortable. Well, Friday night the unexpected happened!!!! A tornado hit downtown Atlanta!!! We were at a Dental convention, when we left the convention, we ate at Ted's Montana Grill (wonderful place by the way). We were hit pretty bad! We walked back to our hotel through the shambles of atlanta. we decided to check out and leave right then. They immediately escorted everyone to the basement for fear of another hit!!! The staff was so proffessional and compasionate until the very end!!!!!!! I will never stay at another hotel in Atlanta but the Ellis!! I highly recomend it to anyone!!! Also, do not worry about the security of the hotel, it is top notch!!! Especially if Derk is your security guard, he made everyone fell safe!