With summer quickly approaching, Atlanta’s largest new hotel in 40 years has opened its elevated pool with public access this season. Just don’t expect public pool prices. 

For the first time, the Signia by Hilton Atlanta hotel is offering a “summer retreat experience” called ResortPass that aims to lure in locals for pampered staycations, if only for a few hours, officials announced this week.  

Signia’s day-pass program allows for access to the property’s Spa Signia and Club Signia with a variety of different ResortPass packages, offering services such as custom massages and HydraFacials.  

Those treatments start at $220 and include up to three hours of access to Signia’s new saltwater pool and open-air bar Highball, which overlook Mercedes-Benz Stadium and downtown. 

Courtesy of Signia by Hilton Atlanta

The poolside Highball bar at Signia. Courtesy of Signia by Hilton Atlanta

Also included is free valet parking and access to the hotel’s 23,000-square-foot wellness floor, the Recovery Lounge. Features there include a sauna, zero-gravity chairs, heated infrared PEMF mats, Normatec leg compression, and what’s described as “calming soundscapes and curated aromatherapy,” per hotel reps. 

The 42-story Signia rose from part of the Georgia Dome’s former site and began opening in January last year as the city’s largest ground-up hotel development in more than four decades. That followed nearly three years of pandemic-delayed construction and several years of planning.

The 976-room tower at 159 Northside Drive marks the first Georgia hotel for the Signia by Hilton brand and the tallest building on downtown’s western flank. (Fun fact: Everything above level 32 at the hotel is taller than The Benz next door.)

Overview of Signia's saltwater pool and accompanying bar, Highball. Courtesy of Signia by Hilton Atlanta

Courtesy of Signia by Hilton Atlanta

Beyond the pool area, highlights include eight food and beverage concepts, including signature Italian fine-dining restaurant Capolinea and daytime eatery Homespun. More than 100,000 square feet of meeting space, boardrooms with views, Georgia’s largest ballroom, and what’s described as a “grand outdoor event deck and lawn” are also dotted around the 1.25-million-square-foot property.

The Signia’s room count ranks it between the fifth largest hotel in Atlanta (Omni Atlanta Hotel: 1,038 rooms) and the current sixth (Sheraton Atlanta Hotel: 749 rooms). It also marks Atlanta’s fifth tallest all-hotel tower overall. That category is led by the 73-story Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, a John Portman-designed building completed in 1976 that’s still Atlanta’s fifth-tallest building—for now. 

Owned by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, Signia is part of what GWCCA calls its Championship Campus, which along with The Benz and Centennial Olympic Park forms “North America’s largest combined convention, sports, and entertainment destination,” according to GWCCA. 

The 1.25-million-square-foot tower's facade of wall-to-wall glass. Courtesy of Signia by Hilton Atlanta

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