Atlanta
The Omni Hotel CNN Center is a luxurious downtown hotel located within the CNN Center. Situated across from Centennial Olympic Park, connected to Phillips Arena and the Georgia World Congress Center, it is the closest hotel to the Georgia Dome. Just 15 minutes from Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. The 470 luxurious guest rooms and suites offer magnificent views of the city skyline or CNN Center Atrium and the hotel's 13 lavish suites are filled with all the comforts for the modern traveler. www.omnihotels.com

At the center of the city’s financial and legal district stands The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta, where wood paneled walls, crystal chandeliers, 18th-century paintings, antique furnishings and Persian carpets create an atmosphere of elegance and warmth. The hotel has 441 guest rooms and offers amenities like high-speed Internet access in room, bedside cordless phones, dataports, voicemail, lighted makeup mirror and padded hangers. www.ritzcarlton.com

At the W Hotel, your room is equipped with a firm, pillow-top mattress with soft, 250-thread count linens, and a fluffy goosedown comforter and pillows. Designed with the business traveler in mind, rooms have two dual-line telephones (one cordless), with conference and modem capabilities and high-speed Ethernet laptop access, up to 100 times faster than a conventional modem. Many rooms even have their own full kitchens, stocked at your request and you can enjoy the company of fake goldfish in the bathroom vanity!  www.w-hotels.com/cities/atlanta/

Villas by the Sea is an enchanting Oceanside Condominium hotel & conference center on Historic Jekyll Island, Georgia. Revitalize in one of our spacious one, two, or three-bedroom Jekyll Island vacation condos, featuring full kitchens, separate living and dining areas and private patios or balconies. www.jekyllislandga.com

The Clarion Resort Buccaneer provides a beachfront location and all the comforts of home. Offering rooms with kitchenettes and amenities such as voice mail, safe deposit boxes and whirlpools and hot tubs, the Clarion is your best bet for beachside lodging on Jekyll Island. For more information, click here.

Experience the playground frequented by the Vanderbilts, Pulitzers, Rockefellers and J.P. Morgan. Today the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, a national historic landmark, offers the perfect setting for your next getaway. Experience grand dining, championship golf, tennis, croquet and explore the Jekyll Island Historic District, the largest restoration project in the Southeast. All amid the unspoiled natural beauty of Georgia's famed resort island. www.jekyllclub.com

Little St. Simons Island
Lodge at Little St. Simons Island - As I walked along the gravel-and-pebble path of Beach Road on Little St. Simons Island, I could hear and feel the rhythm of the rumbling surf of the Atlantic long before I could see it. As I quickened my step over the windswept dunes whipped to softness by sugary sands, I began to smell it, too, as the waves evaporated into microscopic grains of sea salt and permeated the warm spring air. [Read review]

Macon
Macon Memories at the 1842 Inn - For best taste of Macon's southernness, stay at the 1842 Inn, a Greek Revival antebellum mansion built by former mayor, cotton merchant, lawyer, and judge John Gresham that is now the city's only bed-and-breakfast inn. The 1842 Inn exemplifies Macon to perfection. Framed by original, massive Corinthian columns, fragrant magnolias, and a wraparound verandah perfect for not much more than enjoying lazy, slow, sun-splashed afternoons while sipping a mint julep. [Read article]

Sapelo Island
R.J. Renyolds Mansion - There is something about Sapelo Island, one of the myriad of barrier islands that scallops Georgia’s coastline, that cannot be completely defined. Eleven miles long and three miles wide, looks much the same as it did a thousand years ago. [Read review]