Omni at SunTrust Park unveils rooms

Guests will get up-close experience at new Braves stadium.

Executives with Omni Hotels and the Braves on Wednesday unveiled models of how some of their 246 rooms in the 16-floor hotel abutting the new ballpark will look upon opening in early 2018.

The hotel project was announced in April 2015 as a 50-50 partnership between Omni and the Braves.

Visitors in town for games would head to the third floor, walk outside and find themselves at the right field gate. The hotel chain wouldn’t say how much that convenience would cost per night.

“We feel like we have something special here. You can’t beat our location, so we’ll price accordingly,” said Ramon Reyes, who was recently named general manager of the property.

Once the sales staff is set in four or five weeks, he expects to release pricing details and begin taking reservations.

The hotel is rich with prospective partnerships nearby in The Battery from Wahlburger’s to the 3,800-seat Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre, Reyes said. He wouldn’t say what those partnerships could look like, but did say having quality Wi-Fi was key, noting their neighbors were Comcast and its new 250,000-square-foot office next door.

Within the hotel, some of the most obvious differences between the king and queen bedrooms are the art. Some will have frames with white outer leather skin of baseballs cut into the shape of Georgia. Others will have wall art of a Hank Aaron quote.

Some bathrooms will have a special piece of baseball history unearthed for the hotel.

The Braves let Omni search through their archives, where they found Hank Aaron’s scouting report. The hotel made a collage with that report, along with reports of other baseball greats, that will hang above the toilets.

Laura McKoy, Omni’s creative director and vice president of interior design, said she used the Braves as inspiration when designing the hotel but didn’t want to go overboard with baseball paraphernalia. “It’s an American tradition,” she said.

The hotel tried to evoke baseball with a color scheme of a warmer Braves blue and deeper red, pictures of other ballparks around the league and leather headboards inspired by the stitching of gloves.

Guests will still need to buy a ticket for the game because even on the balcony of some of the 28 suites, the best visitors will be able to see is into the bleachers.

The Omni Hotel (pictured in renderings) is currently under construction at The Battery Atlanta, just outside the Braves’ new SunTrust Park in Cobb County. The hotel is set to open in early 2018.