Country Inn and Suites

Visiting family for a few days, we got a nice room at a good rate. Enough space for S and her morning yoga. Bed was very comfortable. Breakfast is included. Staff was helpful and upbeat. There are places closer to UGA and downtown, but hard to believe they’d be as comfortable.

I’m typically a Marriott girl. These beds sleep well, the staff is top notch, the rates are unbeatable and the rooms are clean and well cared for.

At first I was very hesitant about making a reservation at Country Inn Suites because of the reviews, but after our stay this weekend I am pleased with our decision!
The service, complimentary breakfast, free wifi and location in Athens was great! Our room was spacious and clean.
Overall, our experience at the Country Inn Suites was great and would definitely recommend it.

Stayed here last year for Republcan state convention
Loved it one of the cleanest and newest in Athens
Ga so we are staying this year too
2 TV s and nice beds

We stayed at this Country Inn & Suites for one night as part of a brewery tour of Georgia. We booked the special «local experience» package for Terrapin brewery, which included a 6-​pack of beer for our room and tickets to Terrapin’s brewery tour. The experience package was a bit overpriced, and unfortunately the 6-​pack had to be refrigerated after we picked it up at the front desk. The Terrapin tour was great!
The entryway to the hotel was very nice, and it felt like a much higher end hotel! The man working the front desk when we checked in was very nice. Complimentary cookies, coffee, and tea were available.
Our room was very clean and felt very high-​class as well. There was virtually no noise at night. The view out of our room was okay: mostly the outskirts of Athens. The tub had a slight maintenance issue: the drain stopper would not stay up, so I had to find something to hold it up or else water would accumulate quickly, turning my shower into a bath!
Breakfast was solid, but nothing to write home about. They have those typical hotel Belgian waffle makers, as well as fruit, bacon & eggs, cereal, juice, and breads. I liked that the dairy products (milk, cream cheese, eggs, etc) were kept in a fridge.
My Chromebook would not connect to the hotel WiFi because the network wasn’t secure enough (the network uses HSTS, but there was something very wrong with its SSL certificate, I think). My phone connected fine, though.
The hotel is within walking distance to a handful of restaurants, including McDonald’s, Arby’s, and Hilltop Grille.

Staff is decent, hotel is nice but needs a reno, pool room is small but adequate, and the guest laundry works.
I would give this place a 3.5 star rating save for one incident. Several bus loads of shitty high school kids checked in after 9 pm and were so loud that I complained to the front desk to no avail. I am seriously pissed that no one, not the hillbilly chaperones nor the hotel staff asked these shit heads to quiet down.
Seriously WHAT THE FUCK? It’s a hotel, SHUT THE FUCK UP. I heard the noise from the back bedroom of my 3^rd floor room LOUD! And when the shitty kids hit the 3^rd floor and beyond I couldn’t hear myself think.
I’m still pissed about that and that’s all it takes is one bad experience for a hotel to loose my business.

We stayed at the Country Inn and Suites by Carlson for two nights to attend a wedding in Athens. Overall, I was pleased with this hotel. It was clean, affordable, and comfortable.
The hotel is located a short 5 – 10 minute drive from downtown Athens. It’s an easy, straight shot down W. Broad St. from the hotel to downtown. There’s plenty of free parking available at the hotel. Some of the spaces can be tight.
The hotel is 4 stories high. True to the name, the hotel has a down home, «country» feel to it. Don’t expect anything stylish or modern. The environment is calm and welcoming. I can definitely see older folks and families enjoying the cozy, quiet confines.
The living room-​like lobby is open and spacious. The four floors form a perimeter around the lobby so the hotel space feels very connected. A large set of stairs joins the lobby to the second floor and it’s a nice option to have, especially since there’s only one relatively small elevator.
There’s an indoor heated pool and a jacuzzi, but I didn’t use it. It looked fine.
There’s free breakfast every morning from 6:00am to 10:30am. It’s not wildly impressive, but the buffet includes morning essentials like bread, cereal (4 kinds), eggs, sausage, biscuits, juice, coffee, and milk. The highlights are the two waffle-​making machines. You can make your own waffles in 2 minutes. I like the spacious dining area, which is connected directly to the lobby. Both areas have TVs with remotes so you can change the channels yourself.
I reserved a King Studio room. I received a 20% discount off my reservation by booking in advance. After taxes (7% state tax and 7% occupancy tax), the room worked out to be about $ 100 a night. Not bad considering how big and equipped the room was.
There was a desk with an Ethernet cable for a hard-​wired Internet connection. Internet is free, which is great. I don’t like it when hotels charge extra for Internet. Wi-​Fi is also available of course. The speeds were decent for email and basic web surfing. I did a speed test and got about 1 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up.
The room also had a separate living area with a mini fridge, microwave, coffee maker, coffee table, and additional seating including a full-​sized, pull-​out sofa. The closet had an iron and ironing board. The bathroom was large and included basic toiletries as well as a hair dryer. The shower had two heads: one standard shower head and one handheld shower head. No issues with pressure nor temperature.
Inside the room, lighting was good and the thermostat worked properly. The TV had many channels, but it took a long time to switch between channels. No HD. Boo. Also, no channel guide.
I booked the reservation online without any problems. Check-​in and check-​out were both a breeze. The employees I interacted with were polite and professional. There’s complimentary tea and coffee near the front desk. There are also cookies, but they were always all gone when I was around. :(

When you first enter this hotel, it looks like a 4 star+ hotel with very nice wooden interiors as well as the lobby size. They have like apartment complex with stairs going around the lobby makes the lobby looks like the center of the entire hotel.
They got a nice pool and a bar. I only had a breakfast here.
The complimentary coffee and tea at the lobby makes this hotel even better. A huge TV will help you to enjoy your time while you wait for someone at the lobby or simply just relax.
The price here was pretty reasonable as well.
Only if I’d have to come here often, this place will be my first choice.

Did it’s job. It felt kind of like an old folks home.