Navigating FWA

@indigofox.dev made a nice map: https://fwa-2025-map.indigofox.dev/

Hotel structure

There are three hotels. From west to east they are the Hyatt Regency, the Marriott Marquis, and the Hilton. From the inside, the Regency is brown and square, the Marquis is super tall and has the curvy floors, and the Hilton is blue-ish and has a triangular structure.

The Marquis is flanked on the west side by “Marquis One Tower” and “Marquis Two Tower”. Con stuff doesn’t happen in there. From the inside, they are white marble and have a lot of glass walls.

The location is on a steep slope, so hotel entry/exit points are on different floors on the west and east sides.

There are skybridges connecting all three hotels, but because the skybridges are level, taking a skybridge eastward will take you to a higher floor of the neighboring hotel. The ground floor of the Regency has a wiggly skybridge to “some point in-between Marquis Two and the main Marquis body”; go down the brown hallway and turn right to enter the Marquis from the floor above the main entrance. Two floors below on the east end of the building, you will find a straight skybridge connecting you to the second floor of the Hilton.

The Marquis is particularly difficult to navigate. It doesn’t help that hotels reserve “floor 1” for the first floor of guest rooms, and name the lower floors with random terms.

Note: In the Marquis, there are several rooms called “Event Registration” by the hotel, but FWA does not use them for event registration. Way too small. “Registration Room 1” is just a random tiny room.

Floors of the Marquis

There isn’t much wayfinding in the Marquis and it can be difficult to tell what floor you’re on. (If you head to the elevator column, the floor’s name is written in large letters on the wall.)

The main entrance (with the water feature) is on the Lobby Level, floor 3.

International Level (“floor 1”)

• East: Entry/exit to Courtland Street. Escalators up.
• South: Con registration. (The map shows the space divided into separate rooms; the dividers are stowed away for registration, it is one giant room.)
• North and west are inaccessible (reserved for hotel staff).

Indigo’s map calls this “Courtland” since it’s level with Courtland St.

Marquis Level (“floor 2”)

Sometimes called the “Ballroom Level”.

• North: the Marquis Ballroom (a big open space).
• East: Skybridge to the Hilton. Escalators up and down.
• South: the Imperial Ballroom, another open space.
• West: Stairs to the Lobby Level.
• Center: Escalators up (broken during 2025).

Indigo’s map calls this “2”

Lobby Level (“floor 3”).

• North: The hotel concierge, towards the west end.
• East: Con health station. Escalators up and down. Stairs up.
• South: A Starbucks, and something called “M:Store”
• West: The front entrance. Concierge, towards the north. Quiet space, towards the south. Escalators up and down (broken during 2025).
• Center: Stairs down.

Indigo’s map calls this “Peachtree Ctr” since it’s level with the Peachtree Center public transit station.

Atrium Level (“floor 4”).

• North: a big room (Atrium Ballroom).
• East: entrance to the pool, headless lounge. Escalators down. Stairs down.
• South: restaurants called “Sear Bar” and “High Velocity”.
  • In front of that is something called the “Pulse Bar”, with open seating around the center-south.
• West: bridge to the Regency, connections to Marquis Tower One and Two. Escalators down (broken during 2025).

Indigo’s map calls this “4”