(01-22-2013 05:07 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 03:58 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  Go piss on a sidewalk somewhere, sniff it. once u do that, u bout done new orleans.

Certainly if all you do in New Orleans is go to tourist spots where tourists piss on the sidewalk, you've done tourist New Orleans to some extent.

I lived in Nola for 27 years and never once went to a bar on Bourbon Street. Far cooler things to do than that out in the neighborhoods.

I am betting this is the case with most large cities.

(01-22-2013 04:16 PM)panama Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 02:33 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 02:25 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 02:19 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 12:40 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  I've not been in the Georgia Dome but I've been to the Superdome multiple times. I cannot imagine that the Georgia Dome isn't nicer.

I love, love, love being able to stay walking distance from the Superdome and have virtually any sort of meal I want, have a great selection of bars and never get in a car. But I was at the Final Four there and the BCS championship game in 2007 and it was easily the most miserable in-venue experience I've had at a Final Four and I've been to the Final Four in Houston, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. The walkways to get your seats are woefully inadequate. The bathroom capacity was insufficent and concession set-up wasn't very good at all.

The Georgia Dome doesn't even begin to compare to the Superdome. More has been spent renovating the Superdome just since 2005 than was spent on the initial construction of the Georgia Dome. Comparing the two is like comparing a modern cruise ship with a barge.

As for the cities themselves, I prefer Atlanta. I've never understood NOLA as a tourist destination (speaking personally). Really, I'd much rather go to Vegas, or to a place like Cancun.

I've never been to NOLA, but I was not a big fan of Atlanta. I went down for a Panthers-Falcons game about 6 years ago and stayed in downtown. The entire place shut down at 5pm and I had to take relatively long (and expensive) cab rides to the parts of town with any sort of night life.

Maybe that has changed since then, but I was blown away by how devoid of activity downtown Atlanta was.

In Charlotte, pretty much everything happens in Uptown or in the inner city neighborhoods that are no more than 2 miles from center city. I was expecting Atlanta to be fairly similar.

My suggestions for ATL entertainment are to either take a cab, as you suggested, to some place like Midtown or Buckhead, OR, if you must hang out Downtown, wait for the service industry people to get off, and go to an "after hours" type place. I've had more fun with either one of those strategies than I've ever had in NOLA. I'm just not hip enough for NOLA, I guess.

If you stay downtown there are about 10 neighborhoods within a < $10 cab ride of downtown with bars and restaurants that are hopping until 2am. Suburbanites will tell you Midtown and Buckhead because they know no better. Best bet is to start out at Peachtree Center downtown and ask the service people (ESPECIALLY bartenders) where they go or where they are headed. Best bets are Va Highlands (more of an upscale Emory grad crowd but lots of restaurants and bars), Little 5 points (biker and alternative), Downtown Decatur (older intown professionals), Castleberry Hill (artsy loft dwellers/urban pioneer crowd), Monroe and 10th (may be a bit gay for this crowd) and the list goes on.

We went to the Highlands. I liked it very much. It was definitely not a $10 cab ride though. I'm thinking we paid about $25 to get there, but fortunately a girl my brother bought drinks for all night made her pissed off fiance drive us home.

(01-22-2013 05:29 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 04:16 PM)panama Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 02:33 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 02:25 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 02:19 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  The Georgia Dome doesn't even begin to compare to the Superdome. More has been spent renovating the Superdome just since 2005 than was spent on the initial construction of the Georgia Dome. Comparing the two is like comparing a modern cruise ship with a barge.

As for the cities themselves, I prefer Atlanta. I've never understood NOLA as a tourist destination (speaking personally). Really, I'd much rather go to Vegas, or to a place like Cancun.

I've never been to NOLA, but I was not a big fan of Atlanta. I went down for a Panthers-Falcons game about 6 years ago and stayed in downtown. The entire place shut down at 5pm and I had to take relatively long (and expensive) cab rides to the parts of town with any sort of night life.

Maybe that has changed since then, but I was blown away by how devoid of activity downtown Atlanta was.

In Charlotte, pretty much everything happens in Uptown or in the inner city neighborhoods that are no more than 2 miles from center city. I was expecting Atlanta to be fairly similar.

My suggestions for ATL entertainment are to either take a cab, as you suggested, to some place like Midtown or Buckhead, OR, if you must hang out Downtown, wait for the service industry people to get off, and go to an "after hours" type place. I've had more fun with either one of those strategies than I've ever had in NOLA. I'm just not hip enough for NOLA, I guess.

If you stay downtown there are about 10 neighborhoods within a < $10 cab ride of downtown with bars and restaurants that are hopping until 2am. Suburbanites will tell you Midtown and Buckhead because they know no better. Best bet is to start out at Peachtree Center downtown and ask the service people (ESPECIALLY bartenders) where they go or where they are headed. Best bets are Va Highlands (more of an upscale Emory grad crowd but lots of restaurants and bars), Little 5 points (biker and alternative), Downtown Decatur (older intown professionals), Castleberry Hill (artsy loft dwellers/urban pioneer crowd), Monroe and 10th (may be a bit gay for this crowd) and the list goes on.

We went to the Highlands. I liked it very much. It was definitely not a $10 cab ride though. I'm thinking we paid about $25 to get there, but fortunately a girl my brother bought drinks for all night made her pissed off fiance drive us home.

If that was from a Downtown hotel you got taken. You were going from Downtown to a destination outside downtown. Should have been on the meter.