Lanier Hospitality, a hotel management company for several North Georgia properties, announced that the redesigned 122-room Lanier Centre Hotel-Gainesville opens for business today as the Holiday Inn Lanier Centre Hotel.
“The Holiday Inn Lanier Centre Hotel offers travelers a relaxing lodging experience with personalized services,” said Beth Truelove, director of sales and marketing. “This property has an outstanding downtown location for both business and leisure travelers, with all of the conveniences and amenities people have come to expect from Holiday Inns.”
The hotel, which first opened as the Lanier Centre Ramada, was subsequently converted into a Best Western property. As the hotel becomes the Holiday Inn Lanier Centre, it will maintain its modern style and timeless exterior. Additionally, the $1.5 million redesign consists of a
contemporary look in both the hotel’s interior architectural design and room décor and technology.
The Holiday Inn is situated in downtown Gainesville along the two largest thoroughfares of Jesse Jewell and EE Butler Parkways near several businesses including Regions Bank, Brenau University and Northeast Georgia Medical Center. It also is in close proximity to tourist destinations like the Northeast Georgia History Center, Clarks Bridge Rowing Venue and, just steps from the unique shops and dining of Downtown Gainesville. Some of the hotel’s key amenities include: luxurious bedding including Park Place Pillow-topped mattresses, crisp white linens, and guests’ choice of pillows from a menu of pillow options; large televisions; spacious granite baths with spa quality botanical bath amenities; room service; free Wi-Fi in all guest rooms; meeting and banquet facilities to host from 2 to 250 guests; four suites; courtyard pool; fitness center; self service guest laundry; and same day valet laundry service.
The Holiday Inn Lanier Centre’s Courtyard Restaurant offers guests casual dining in the dining room or alfresco on the patio. Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a classic southern Sunday brunch, the Courtyard Restaurant features Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee and regional favorites like North Georgia Pecan Crusted Trout and Chicken Savannah. Kids 12 and younger eat free at Holiday Inn when ordering from the kids’ menu in the hotel restaurant and accompanied by a dining adult. Room Service Right…On Time™ ensures that guests’ room service orders are accurate and delivered on time, every time.

The Library Lounge at Holiday Inn Lanier Centre is a quiet respite at the end of a busy day.  This fireside lounge features unique cocktails and a dinner menu featuring a succulent Sweet Bourbon Ribeye Steak, Blackened Atlantic Salmon and a classic car grilled burger nightly.  Standard Holiday Inn Lanier Centre guestroom accommodations feature Park Place pillowtopped double queen or king-sized beds, a sitting area with a lounge chair, large televisions with in-room movies, hairdryer, coffee-maker, iron and ironing board. Guestrooms also include a work desk and leather-clad ergonomic chair, two telephones with data ports, free Wi-Fi, free USA Today newspapers, and express check-out capabilities.
“We’ve invested millions of dollars in this property to attract a variety of guests,” said Rick Burnette, director of operations for Lanier Hospitality. “From leisure travelers seeking a fun getaway to business travelers working in North Georgia, we’re confident that the Holiday Inn
Lanier Centre will serve as a practical and enticing guest experience in a city that already has so much to offer.”
The Holiday Inn Lanier Centre which is managed by Lanier Hospitality and owned by Savibaten, Inc. of Buford, under a license agreement with a company in the InterContinental Hotels Group, is located at 400 EE Butler Parkway Gainesville, Georgia, 30501. Telephone: 770-531-0907;
Facsimile: 770-531-0788.

About Holiday Inn
With nearly 1,400 hotels worldwide, Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts is the most widely recognized lodging
brand in the world. In fact, Holiday Inn was one of the first international hotel brands to establish a
presence in China in 1984. Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts provides the services that business travelers
need, while also offering a comfortable atmosphere where all people can relax and enjoy amenities such
as restaurants and room service, swimming pools, fitness centers and comfortable lounges. The casual
atmosphere and amenities such as meeting and on-site business facilities, KidSuites rooms, Kids Eat and
Stay Free programs, and the ability to earn Priority Club Rewards points that can be redeemed for great
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