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Staying overnight in Athens
Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:39 am
Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:39 am
Driving cross country next week and the first stop is in Athens. I’ve been there one time in 2009 for the football game that year and loved it but that’s it. What would you suggest for someone who will be there for one night?
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Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:53 am to Draconian Sanctions
What part of the week?
Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:55 am to tylerdurden24
Saturday night
Posted on 5/20/19 at 9:14 am to Draconian Sanctions
Check out some baseball as we host a regional.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:28 am to Draconian Sanctions
how old are you? what kind of things do you want to do? school is out now, so it will be a slightly different vibe.
cali n titos, baseball regional, bar hop downtown would be my move next saturday.
cali n titos, baseball regional, bar hop downtown would be my move next saturday.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:56 am to Draconian Sanctions
Check the Flagpole calendar for musical acts at Georgia Theatre, Foundry, and 40 Watt to seenif anything piques your interest. Georgia Theatre Rooftop isn’t a bad way to spend an evening downtown. Definitely going to be more chilled out this month than your average fall weekend but that’s usually a plus in my book (throngs of obnoxious college kids drinking socially for the first time ever usually isn’t my thing): LINK
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:56 am to Draconian Sanctions
Yes depends on what you want to do and is it just the night some of the day? Younger crowd older crowd?
School is out so not a lot students around.
If you are looking for some higher end good food.
1. South Kitchen (downtown)
2. SeaBear (Bottle works)
3. Marker 7 (Five Points)
4. Five and Ten (Fancy place on Milledge)
More Laid back
1. Trapeze
2. 5 bar
Really laid back
1. Teds Most best
2. Amici
3. Cali n titos
4. Grind house.
Five points has some nice eateries.
Really just walk around Athens tons of choices.
For desert
Insomnia (Cookie place)
Alumni Cookie Dough
During the day
Creature Comfort or Akademia breweries
Terrapin as well
State Botanical Garden, etc etc
School is out so not a lot students around.
If you are looking for some higher end good food.
1. South Kitchen (downtown)
2. SeaBear (Bottle works)
3. Marker 7 (Five Points)
4. Five and Ten (Fancy place on Milledge)
More Laid back
1. Trapeze
2. 5 bar
Really laid back
1. Teds Most best
2. Amici
3. Cali n titos
4. Grind house.
Five points has some nice eateries.
Really just walk around Athens tons of choices.
For desert
Insomnia (Cookie place)
Alumni Cookie Dough
During the day
Creature Comfort or Akademia breweries
Terrapin as well
State Botanical Garden, etc etc
This post was edited on 5/20/19 at 10:59 am
Posted on 5/20/19 at 11:02 am to LSUHobNailBoot
Thanks, what about dive bars?
Posted on 5/20/19 at 11:20 am to Draconian Sanctions
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Thanks, what about dive bars?
how divey are we talkin here?
Posted on 5/20/19 at 11:33 am to WG_Dawg
The divier the better
Posted on 5/20/19 at 1:56 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Roadhouse is a good dive. Manhattan has a dive feel but attracts more of a hipster crowd. There’s also Nowhere, Flanagan’s, and Cutters
Pretty sure Georgia Bar is still gone which, in its day, was king of the dives
Pretty sure Georgia Bar is still gone which, in its day, was king of the dives
This post was edited on 5/20/19 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 5/20/19 at 2:05 pm to tylerdurden24
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Roadhouse is a good dive
that was the first one that came to mind.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 2:10 pm to WG_Dawg
I made many Memories in the Roadhouse.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 2:39 pm to tylerdurden24
i would never call flanagan's a dive bar, interesting. also not very divey per se, but better for someone older would be allgood and walkers/blue sky.
im trying to modify my hypothetical plan if i were in athens next saturday and the weather was good.
- breakfast @ mama's boy if possible
- walk around downtown/north campus just checking shite out to plan my afternoon/night
- lunch @ cali n titos
- baseball regional for a couple hours. i personally would watch uga play, but if i were a non uga fan just visiting for one day, wouldnt want to spend too much time here and would just hit up whatever fit into my schedule.
- head downtown to creature comforts for one or two
- sunset on the georgia theatre rooftop
- dinner at last resort (no reservations, so get your name in accordingly but shouldnt be too bad with school out)
- bar hop to wherever your heart desires. if i was by myself and didn't know a soul, allgood, walker's, and cutters would be good stops.
- late night, would definitely go to some combination of mags, sandbar, boars head (a lock), bourbon for a little rowdier energy/nostalgia
- tough call between hot dog guy on college and broad, the grill, barberitos (not if i had cali n titos earlier), maybe even waffle house for the 2am meal
god, im depressed now
im trying to modify my hypothetical plan if i were in athens next saturday and the weather was good.
- breakfast @ mama's boy if possible
- walk around downtown/north campus just checking shite out to plan my afternoon/night
- lunch @ cali n titos
- baseball regional for a couple hours. i personally would watch uga play, but if i were a non uga fan just visiting for one day, wouldnt want to spend too much time here and would just hit up whatever fit into my schedule.
- head downtown to creature comforts for one or two
- sunset on the georgia theatre rooftop
- dinner at last resort (no reservations, so get your name in accordingly but shouldnt be too bad with school out)
- bar hop to wherever your heart desires. if i was by myself and didn't know a soul, allgood, walker's, and cutters would be good stops.
- late night, would definitely go to some combination of mags, sandbar, boars head (a lock), bourbon for a little rowdier energy/nostalgia
- tough call between hot dog guy on college and broad, the grill, barberitos (not if i had cali n titos earlier), maybe even waffle house for the 2am meal
god, im depressed now
Posted on 5/20/19 at 2:44 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
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bourbon
I wouldn't suggest any adult out of towner go to bourbon street
Posted on 5/20/19 at 3:34 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
any other recs are welcome This post was edited on 5/20/19 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 5/20/19 at 4:06 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
Rockchlk pretty much nailed it.
That is a solid itinerary...
That is a solid itinerary...
Posted on 5/20/19 at 4:14 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Toppers! 
Posted on 5/20/19 at 4:18 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Consider Mayflower downtown for breakfast instead of Mamas Boy. Not that Mamas Boy is bad (it’s actually pretty good) but it’s usually overt crowded with a long wait and little parking (there are also two of them now, the original being off Oconee st). If you’re into music, though, the famous railroad trestle on the cover of REM’s Murmur album is right behind the original Mamas Boy and the church steeple where they played their first gig is somewhat across the street. So that’s cool.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 5:25 pm to WG_Dawg
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I wouldn't suggest any adult out of towner go to bourbon street
suit yourself. i think it's something you gotta see. i guess with school out, i would not recommend it, though.
im not suggesting you spend too much time there, but if i visit a college town, i like to see the shite that the students are doing. it's a beautiful place in my eyes, and ill never forget it.
forgot about toppers in my itinerary. pencil that in after bourbon
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