<p>I'm visiting FSU next week. We'll be staying over in Tallahassee for one night.</p>
<p>Anyone have any recommendations of what (besides the university) would be good to see? Any good recommendations of a nice hotel in a nice area to stay at? Good places to eat?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>we stayed at the Hampton Inn & Suites Tallahassee I-10-Thomasville Rd a few weeks ago (based on recommendations from tripadvisor.com). It was clean, reasonably priced, and includes breakfast. </p>
<p>If you have a chance at FSU, take the walking tour. We took the bus tour, because it was so hot but we didn't really get a feel for the campus, and wished we had taken the waling tour instead. </p>
<p>We didn't do much other than visit the campus and drive around the area, because we continued to UF that day....</p>
<p>Thanks for the response :)</p>
<p>We're doing the bus tour. We did the walking tour at UF a few weeks ago, 90 minutes in 99+ temperatures is nuts, especially for my parents who have health issues. </p>
<p>What'd you think of UF, and as a comparison between the two, which did you like more? (You can private message me that answer if that's more comfortable for you :))</p>
<p>There's a nice Doubletree downtown on Adams Street and a Courtyard Marriott on Apalachee Parkway. Both are close to campus and I think about $150 per night. I've stayed at both and would recommend either.</p>
<p>The FSU campus isn't nearly as big as UF's, so the walking tour might be a little easier. There's plenty to see and do near downtown and around campus. I recommend you stay close, as that's where you'll spend most of your time as a student. If you get a chance, take a separate tour of the University Center at Doak Campbell Stadium.</p>
<p>There's also a Comfort Suites on Apalachee Parkway that's decent, too.</p>
<p>You get to see much more by walking.</p>
<p>Here are some places to visit - from an earlier string:</p>
<p>parents2noles thank you! That was the link I'd been looking for but I couldn't find! :)</p>
<p>also on the FSU walking tour you get to stop for lemonade =) Like Tampa Nole said, the double tree is really nice, and close to campus</p>
<p>polkadot - I'd be interested in hearing about your reactions to the visit, if you care to share them.</p>
<p>Definately. I go tomorrow, so I'll let you know :)</p>
<p>Ok parent2noles, here's what I thought of FSU.</p>
<p>Overall, I liked it. It was surprisingly compact for such a large university. The bus tour was wonderful, I could not have handled walking in today's heat and humidity. Yuck. The tour guide was good, sounded like she'd been doing this for years. I was impressed that they didn't try to flaunt academics in front of you. They just are what they are. My mother, on the other hand, did not like it, nor did she like Tallahassee. She said both were "dingy" and Tallahassee seemed "ghetto". It didn't have "pep".
The biggest thing that I liked about FSU was the people. They looked normal. They looked real. They were all shapes, sizes, and colors. Most of the other places that I've visited looked like people walked out of some fancy magazine, and I hate that. FSU just looked real. That won major points with me.</p>
<p>Thanks for the observations. Good luck in your selection process.</p>
<p>It's a good thing you're not hoping to attend Yale University in New Haven, CT. I just spent the last week in and around Yale. If your mom thinks parts of Tallahassee and FSU are 'dingy' she should compare them to areas adjacent to Yale and the college itself. There's only so much one can do with century-old buildings.</p>
<p>hey Polka, where'd you end up staying?</p>
<p>We ended up just driving home. We weren't sure how long the tour was going to be, if we were going to have to talk to anybody, and it ended up that it was a pretty short tour so we just decided to go home. Only 3 hours away, so it wasn't too bad :)</p>