re: Any Dawgs & Tide fans actually going to the SECCG in Atlanta?

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Other than the convenience of being walking distance to the dome or Phillips or the WCC I would agree. The area around Mercedes and Phillips has PLENTY of bars and restaurants and many of them are VERY good, the problem is that anyone who is scared Buckhead is going to be fricking TERRIFIED in those places. They are perfectly safe and the neighborhood is also for the most part...but the are is a little less sanitized than most of Atlanta. You could eat at a different restaurant every night and it would take a couple of lifetimes to get to them all.

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I'd rather stay 5 miles away in Buckhead than half a mile or a mile away in Downtown. Downtown Atlanta has become a rotting corpse that is essentially dead after business hours. If given the choice on where to stay for something like the SEC Championship game for a weekend this would be my order regardless of distance to Mercedes Benz Stadium:

#1. Eastside Beltline (Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward, Virginia Highland, Poncey Highland, Morningside)
#2. Midtown
#3. West Midtown
#4. Buckhead
#5. The Perimeter (Ashford Dunwoody)
#6. Downtown

All of those places have far more amenities, are safer and more things to see and do than Downtown Atlanta. I don't care how close Downtown is to the stadium it just sucks to be there and would rather be 2 to 5 miles more away (or even 10 if choosing Perimeter)