Atlanta's Resort Fees Are Nearly All in Buckhead: $25 to $35 a Night at Five Hotels

By Matt Spaulding · November 7, 2026

Photo: Andrew nyr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Six of the 59 Atlanta hotels on our site printed a hotel fee on their own booking screens. Five are in Buckhead, among the 12 we cover there, at $25 to $35 a night. The sixth is The Candler Hotel Atlanta, Curio Collection by Hilton, downtown in Peachtree Center, and it's 2 percent of the stay. The other 53 printed none.

We read each hotel's own booking screen in Chrome on 29 October 2026, for two adults in one room for one night. For nearly all of them the night was Tuesday 17 November. Five showed no standard room on the 17th, so we read the Epicurean for the 18th and the other four for 1 December. This page quotes no room rates. A fee line here means a mandatory charge, apart from tax, that the screen printed, whether it sat inside the price shown or was added to it. On 7 November we went back to the six screens with a fee line. Hilton's screen for the Candler read the same as before, and so did the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta and Nobu Hotel Atlanta. Marriott's site answered Access Denied for the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead. Hyatt's refused the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead twice, so we didn't try the Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta on its own. Those three figures rest on the 29 October reads.

Every hotel room in Georgia also carries the State Hotel-Motel Fee, a flat $5 a night, per the Georgia Department of Revenue. In the City of Atlanta a room pays 8 percent hotel-motel tax and 8.9 percent sales tax, 16.9 percent of the rate in all. Those are government charges, and none of them counts as a fee line here. Our Atlanta hotel tax guide has them screen by screen.

Self-parking costs more than the fee at four Buckhead hotels

Two hotels in our Buckhead area charge $25 and two charge $35, with the Grand Hyatt in between at $30. Nobu, one of the two at $35, folds overnight self-parking into its fee. None of the parking rates at the other four comes with a stated tax.

Every rate at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead carried the line "Includes 25 USD Destination Fee", so the $25 was already inside the price Marriott listed. Self-parking is $52 a day, or $10 an hour, and valet is $62 a day. We never read what the fee buys.

The Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta printed a paragraph headed DESTINATION FEE: "A daily destination fee of $25.00 (subject to change) is applied to each room of your stay." Hyatt's page doesn't list what you get for it. Self-parking is $40 overnight and valet $52, or $22 and $27 if you only come in for a day or an event. Fee and overnight self-parking together come to $65 a night before tax. The valet can't take vehicles over six feet.

The Grand Hyatt printed the same paragraph with $30.00 in it. Self-parking with in-and-out is $49 a night, and with the fee that's $79 before tax. Valet is $62 a night.

The InterContinental adds its fee on top of the rate. The Taxes and Additional Charges block reads "Daily Amenity Fee 35.00USD on rate, per night". Under it come $2.80 of occupancy tax and $3.12 of sales tax on the fee itself, and the screen adds them up: $40.92 per room per night. It also lists what that buys: a daily 20 percent food and beverage credit for dinner at The Americano restaurant or bar (not for alcohol or gratuity), a $20 spa credit per stay, a daily $10 mini bar credit, Cadillac Escalade car service within a 2-mile radius, a 24-hour fitness center with a Peloton bike, premium internet, local and 800 calls, and printing up to 20 pages. Valet is $62 a day with in-and-out. Self-parking is $49 a day, so the fee and the car come to $89.92 a night before the room's taxes and any tax on the parking.

Nobu's rate details list the room's taxes and the $5 Georgia Hotel Fee, then "Destination Fee $38.11". The hotel's own FAQ puts the fee at $35, so the $38.11 is that plus 8.9 percent sales tax, with no occupancy tax on it. It's billed at check-out. It was on the Room Only rate we read. On rates without the fee, self-parking is $35 a night. It covers overnight self-parking, two daily water bottles, coffee in the lobby and rooms, Porsche car service for "select transportation", fitness center access, premium Wi-Fi and unlimited local calls. Valet is extra: $50 overnight or $20 for 8 hours.

The other seven Buckhead hotels printed no fee line: The Whitley, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Atlanta Buckhead (read for 1 December), Hotel Colee, Atlanta Buckhead, Autograph Collection, The Westin Buckhead Atlanta, Waldorf Astoria Atlanta Buckhead, Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta-Buckhead and Courtyard Atlanta Buckhead. The Wyndham's screen itemized an 8 percent occupancy tax and an 8.9 percent Georgia State Tax beside the state's $5, and no hotel fee.

In Peachtree Center, the Candler's fee is 2 percent of the stay

On Hilton's screen for the Candler, the one fee in our Peachtree Center area, a banner reads "Daily Mandatory Charge includes: Historical Preservation Fee." Each rate says "Price includes 2.00% mandatory charge per stay, but excludes taxes and government charges." You pay more of it on a pricier room or a longer stay. The banner says daily where the rate line says per stay, and the screen prints no dollar amount. Parking is valet only, at $55, with no unit stated.

The other 11 printed none: Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Downtown, The American Hotel Atlanta Downtown, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, The Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Hilton Atlanta, The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta, Hotel Indigo Atlanta Downtown, Ellis Hotel Atlanta, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, Residence Inn Atlanta Downtown and Courtyard Atlanta Downtown.

No fee line at any of the 35 in the other three areas

Centennial Olympic Park has 12 hotels on our site, and none printed a fee: Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park, Signia by Hilton Atlanta, Hotel Phoenix, Reverb by Hard Rock Atlanta Downtown, Moxy Atlanta Downtown, Embassy Suites by Hilton Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park, Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Downtown, Hyatt Place Atlanta Centennial Park, Glenn Hotel, Autograph Collection, Aloft Atlanta Downtown, SpringHill Suites Atlanta Downtown and JW Marriott Atlanta Downtown.

Midtown's 12 printed none either. Two we also checked by their totals: the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta's all-in price and the Loews Atlanta Hotel's stay total, which "Includes Taxes and Fees", each equaled the rate plus 16.9 percent plus the $5.

The other ten are The Starling Atlanta Midtown, Curio Collection by Hilton, Hyatt Centric Midtown Atlanta, Kimpton Shane Hotel, Hotel Granada, Epicurean Atlanta, Autograph Collection, Canopy by Hilton Atlanta Midtown, AC Hotel Atlanta Midtown, Moxy Atlanta Midtown, Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta-Midtown and Twelve Midtown, Autograph Collection. The Hyatt Centric Midtown printed no DESTINATION FEE paragraph, unlike its Buckhead namesake. We read the Epicurean for 18 November and the AC Hotel for 1 December.

None of the 11 hotels at The Battery and Truist Park, out in Cobb County, printed a fee: Omni Hotel at The Battery Atlanta, Aloft Atlanta at The Battery Atlanta, DoubleTree Suites by Hilton at The Battery Atlanta, Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta-Galleria, Wingate by Wyndham Atlanta Galleria/Ballpark, Sheraton Suites Galleria-Atlanta, Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel & Convention Center, Residence Inn Atlanta Cumberland/Galleria, Holiday Inn Express Atlanta Galleria-Ballpark Area, Hyatt Place Atlanta/Cobb Galleria and Tru by Hilton Atlanta Galleria Ballpark. The DoubleTree Suites and the Hampton Inn & Suites were read for 1 December.

How each chain's screen shows a fee

Marriott books 25 of the 59 hotels, Hilton 15, Hyatt six and IHG four. Only the JW carried a Marriott fee, and Marriott printed it inside the rate. Of Hilton's 15, the Candler's price was the only one that included a mandatory charge. Hyatt gives the fee a paragraph of its own. Two of its six hotels here printed one, and neither screen gave a tax figure for the fee. IHG added the InterContinental's fee on top and taxed it, while the same block at its other three Atlanta hotels held only taxes and the $5. Nobu's SynXis screen put the fee on its own line beside the taxes.

What screens call the state's $5, and Cobb County's $3

Screens give the state's $5 at least five names: "GA State Hotel Motel Fee" at the Wyndham Buckhead, "Georgia Hotel Fee" at Nobu and Reverb, "Georgia Hotel Motel Tax 5.00 USD" at Hotel Indigo and the Holiday Inn Express Galleria, "Hotel Motel Tax Fee 5.00USD" at the InterContinental and "Georgia Motel/Hotel Tax $5.00 flat" at the Wingate. None of them is the hotel's.

At the Wingate, the screen itemized a 6 percent State Tax, an 8 percent City Tax, a "Cobb County Tax $3.00 flat" and the $5. That $3 is a county charge, not the hotel's, so it isn't counted here either. The Holiday Inn Express itemized the same two percentages and the $5, with no $3 line. News reports describe the $3 as a 2013 stadium-financing district fee, and we found no Cobb page that confirms which hotels charge it.