The weather’s warming and you’re itching for days off you don’t have. Why let city limits limit your fun? Get yourself a great in-town vacay, stat.
The Modern Retreater
Radius, the new tower at the Hyatt Regency, features pie slice-shaped rooms with boutique bells and whistles — swiveling flat-screens, sleek furnishings, a killer view of the pool. Check out a GPS and run wild through the city streets (265 Peachtree Street, Downtown; 404-577-1234).
Download a Sweet Auburn audio tour (or dial it in real time on your cell) and mosey through the historic district with Andrew Young as your guide.
The VIP Sectioner
Pssst. Heard of the pool suites at Renaissance Downtown? Neither had we: They’re never, ever advertised. The oversize adjoining rooms on the third floor have mini sundecks with wading pools and lounge chairs. Want in? Request rooms 331 through 333 (590 West Peachtree Street, Midtown; 404-881-6000).
The Posh Hopper
You love a B&B. But granny sheets and rickrack, not so much. For a sleek, light-filled retreat (and breakfast of chicken apple sausage with lemon- and vanilla-battered French toast) stay at Tea Cakes B&B (1003 Lena Street, Washington Park; 404-758-9879).
Take tea at the Four Seasons and nibble sweets and finger sandwiches while sipping a French press brew, then saunter downstairs for treatments at The Spa, which get you free access to the saltwater indoor pool (75 14th Street, Midtown; 404-881-9898).
The International Traveler of Mystery
A night at The Beverly Hills Inn, the city’s oldest bed and breakfast, is the closest you’ll get to Euro jet-setting without getting on a jet. English innkeeper Mit Amin’s apartment-like suites are straight out of a ’40s-era romance (65 Sheridan Drive, Buckhead; 404-233-8520).
Joël offers impromptu kitchen tours upon request. As if you needed a reason to dine there (3290 Northside Parkway, Buckhead; 404-233-3500).
Now go forth and citify.












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