The Top 2 Hotels Near The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee
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An hour east of Atlanta, this Craftsman-styled Ritz sits alone on a peninsula where five championship courses and miles of lakeshore dominate the landscape. The spa, multiple restaurants, and cottage accommodations suggest a resort less concerned with brand uniformity than with suiting itself to the water and Georgia pines around it.
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The hotel's barn-shaped silhouette dominates downtown Athens with a deliberately modern palette of gray and red, a structure that acknowledges rather than hides its agrarian context. Its location collapses the distinction between university and city, making it a deliberate architectural statement about what a regional hotel can be.