We've lived in the ATL metro area for about 9 years now and while we've visited some of the sites on this tour, we didn't have the history & overview of the city neighborhoods that we've enjoyed on tours in other cities. When the Groupon came up, I decided to give it a try. Our tour guide was Christine (maybe Christina?) and she was friendly although went on a bit. Corey was our driver & he did a great job navigating the traffic and pulling off to the side of the streets to let us get pictures and good views.
The tour started at the MLK sites, which were great. None of our family had visited this area of town before and there is a lot of great history there! We then walked on the Beltline area, which was also terrific. We'll definitely come back and scope that out more later. We drove by several of the up & coming Markets and fun neighborhoods, learning more about those.
Our lunch stop at CNN's food court was only 30 minutes though. We raced in, ordered food, scarfed it down and barely had time to use the bathrooms before it was time to get back to the bus! I feel sorry for non-natives who've never visited the CNN center before.
After lunch, the tour itself slowed a bit for most of us. In fact, there were several sounds of snoring from our tourgroup. Most of the touring after lunch was around the multi-million dollar homes in Buckhead, which was nice, but would have liked to see the walking portions more spread throughout the day as it was hard to stay awake.
We finished our tour well before 1:30 so really could have had more time at CNN. But overall, for the Groupon price, it was a cost-effective way of getting an overview of Atlanta. We now have a better idea of places we'd like to go back and visit, which was our main goal.