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Awards and Affiliations
The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation is listed in the 2010 Travel + Leisure 500.
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Property Amenities
A 26,000-square-foot health and beauty spa offers 26 treatment rooms including a couples' suite with jetted tub and candles, a spa boutique, relaxation lounges, and women's and men's wet rooms with saunas, steam rooms, and four-person spa tubs and plunge pools adjacent to gas fireplaces and bordered by cushioned chairs/footstools. In an ambience inspired by the area's Native American history, the spa offers treatments employing herbs, fruits, and flowers.
Seasonal body scrubs include grapefruit seed/sassafras root in summer and primrose/eucalyptus in winter. Body wraps include Creek Indian herbs and Oconee mud; massage options include herb-and flower-friction and warm-stone. Hydrotherapy choices include milk baths and Vichy showers. Facials, nail care, and hair care are also available.
Within the spa, an expansive, carpeted, mirrored-wall fitness center contains cardio machines, weight machines, free weights, and an exercise studio with a polished wood floor and spinners. Spinning, aerobics, yoga, and Pilates classes are available weekly.
Supervised activities for children ages 5-12 are offered 7 days a week, with half- and full-day sessions available as well as "night-out" sessions through the RITZ KIDS program at The Lodge.
A business center contains four computers with complimentary high-speed Internet access.
This hotel has a smoke-free policy.
Rooms
The resort offers 251 guestrooms and suites in a five-story, wood-shingled building, with pitched roofs, domes, and a lake-view veranda furnished with rocking chairs. Private balconies and patios with French doors provide views of Lake Oconee, gardens, or golf courses.
Rooms feature triple-sheeted featherbeds, 350-thread-count linens, goose-down and hypo-allergenic pillows, and down comforters. Marble bathrooms include separate stall showers and tubs. Terry-cloth bathrobes and slippers supply lounging comfort.
Pay movies and iPod docking stations provide entertainment. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available.
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Dining
Georgia's Bistro - Air-conditioned, linen-service, breakfast/dinner restaurant with beamed ceiling, stacked-stone fireplace, antler chandelier, and exposed timber ceiling. Buffet breakfast daily. À la carte choices such as trout and grits, Eggs Benedict, bourbon-peach brioche French toast, pecan Belgian waffles, bagel with house-smoked salmon. Seasonal dinner choices such as pan-seared foie gras, pan-seared black grouper, lobster-crawfish tortellini, suckling pig, grilled filet of beef, peach bread-and-butter pudding, pecan pie. Tasting menu offered nightly. Dinner dress code: resort casual or golf attire welcome.
Gaby's By the Lake - Casual, open-air lakeside lunch/dinner restaurant open seasonally, serving lunch and dinner. Pavilion with beamed ceiling and terrace seating at umbrella tables. Teak furniture. New Orleans-accented menus, with pizzas, salads, sandwiches, grilled favorites, and signature chilled cocktails. Dinner choices such as Creole seafood gumbo, fried oysters, lobsterette-calamari ceviche, roasted sea bass, blackened redfish, shrimp-and-grits in hollow sourdough roll, Peach Melba, Baked Alaska. Dress code: casual. No reservations.
The Lobby Lounge - Open mid-afternoon to after midnight for cocktails, cognacs, cigars, light meals. The Lobby Lounge offers leather chairs, fireside lobby tables, plush-fabric couches, antler chandeliers, stone fireplace, two-story vaulted ceiling, and a lakeside view. Live jazz Friday and Saturday evenings.
Chiminea Dining Experience - Lakefront dinner in Adirondack with personal Chiminea. Multi-course meals, served with one bottle of house red or white wine and a Champagne toast. $125 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations only.
Recreation
Terraced above Lake Oconee, an expansive complex contains a 90-by-40-foot pool with an infinity edge facing the lake, a 15-foot-diameter children's pool with its own sundeck, and a 10-person spa tub partly shaded by a wooden arbor. Pools' faux charcoal-gray granite lining creates a "natural" look. Sundecks are furnished with umbrellas and cushioned lounge chairs.
A 60-by-20-foot lap pool provides year-round swimming inside a two-story pavilion with a vaulted bleached-wood ceiling and stone accent wall. Cushioned lounge chairs and potted plants surround the pool, and adjacent to a wood-burning fireplace is a spa tub that can accommodate up to four guests.
A 40-yard beach furnished with cushioned lounge chairs and umbrellas lies on Lake Oconee. Nearby, pine trees shade a sand playground.
Reynolds Plantation offers 99 championship golf holes on five courses. The Oconee, designed by Rees Jones, includes five holes in which Lake Oconee comes into play, four others with lake views, an oversized practice fairway, and a chipping green. The Great Waters, designed by Jack Nicklaus, features nine lakeside holes and a 10,000-square-foot practice green. The Plantation, designed by Bob Cupp with consultation from Fuzzy Zoeller and Hubert Green, offers wide, rolling fairways. The National, designed by Tom Fazio, offers 27 holes, some tucked into the lake's shores, with narrow fairways lined by pines and dogwoods and large, rolling greens. Reynolds Landing was the first golf course built on Lake Oconee and acquired by Reynolds Plantation in 2005. This Scottish-style championship course was built on hilly terrain with water features coming into play on three holes.
With five signature world-class courses, Top 100 Instructor Charlie King is available for a lesson at the Reynolds Golf Academy, and the Kingdom, where the MATT (Motion Analysis Technology by TaylorMade) System is available for club-fitting and where PGA professionals hone their games.
Other recreational opportunities (surcharges for all) includes American- and Olympic-style skeet and trap at a gun club; lake fishing from motor and pontoon boats; fly fishing; water skiing, wakeboarding, and tubing; pontoon-boat rentals and tours; tennis on hard and clay courts; canoeing, kayaking, and pedal boats; and mountain biking through the Plantation. A fitness center offers spinning, aerobics, yoga, and Pilates classes weekly.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the lodge; fees may apply.
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Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport (ATL): Approximate driving time is 90 minutes and distance is 75 miles.
Driving directions from Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport: Exit the airport by following Camp Creek Parkway to I-85 North. Proceed north on I-85 toward Atlanta. Take I-20 East and proceed toward Augusta. Take Exit 130/Hwy-44 /Greensboro. At end of the exit ramp, turn right on Hwy 44 heading south. Proceed to the traffic light and turn left onto Linger Longer Road. Proceed one mile, and then turn left at Lake Oconee Trail. Proceed two miles to lodge entrance.
