A weekend in Georgia (two nights, two adults) lands around $630 to $980 before gas, taxes and attractions, depending on where you sleep; a week in one place costs roughly three times that. The figures below come from the federal government’s own lodging and meal allowances for each area, plus the state’s published park fees.
They are benchmarks for planning, not price quotes: a hotel on a festival weekend can cost more than the federal cap, and a state park cabin or campsite can cost less.
What does a Georgia weekend cost in each region?
| Area | Lodging per night (federal rate) | Meals per person per day | 2 nights lodging | Weekend for 2 adults (2 nights + 3 days of meals) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta (Fulton and DeKalb) | $188 to $207 | $86 | $376 to $414 | $892 to $930 |
| Savannah (Chatham) | $153 to $186 | $80 | $306 to $372 | $786 to $852 |
| Brunswick and Jekyll Island (Glynn) | $176 to $230 | $86 | $352 to $460 | $868 to $976 |
| Athens (Clarke) | $154 | $74 | $308 | $752 |
| Augusta (Richmond) | $113 to $131 | $74 | $226 to $262 | $670 to $706 |
| Dahlonega and most of the mountains (federal standard rate) | $113 | $68 | $226 | $634 |
Read the ranges this way: the low end is the cheaper months for that area and the high end is the busiest. These federal rates are a ceiling set for government travelers, so they track the market without being a promise that a room will cost that much on your dates.
What do Georgia state parks and historic sites cost?
Parking at Georgia State Parks is $10 per vehicle per day, and an annual ParkPass is $70, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (gastateparks.org, read November 13, 2026). You pay the daily fee once per stay in the park facilities, however long you stay.
If you will visit a park on more than seven days in a year, the annual pass is cheaper. Parks on this site include Amicalola Falls, Tallulah Gorge, Skidaway Island and Cloudland Canyon.
A sample weekend budget
- Mountain weekend (Dahlonega area)About $226 for two nights at the federal standard lodging rate, about $408 in meals for two adults over three days, and $10 a day for each park you visit. About $640 plus gas.
- Savannah and the coastAbout $306 to $372 for two nights, about $480 in meals for two, and $10 a day for Skidaway Island or Fort McAllister. About $790 to $860 plus gas, before historic-site tickets.
- Atlanta weekendAbout $376 to $414 for two nights and $516 in meals for two. About $890 to $930 before attractions and parking.
- One week in one placeMultiply the nightly lodging by seven and the meals by seven days for each person. Cabins and campsites with a kitchen cut the meals line the most.
What we have not confirmed
Attraction ticket prices change often and several official sites show them only after a script runs, so we did not copy them here. Check the official page before you go: Georgia Aquarium tickets, Georgia State Parks ParkPass and the site of each historic site you plan to visit.
Cabin and campsite rates at state parks vary by park and date; look them up on gastateparks.org. Gas and food costs depend on how far you drive and where you eat, and we have no official figure for either.
Plan the trip
Pick a region from our Georgia places guide, see what living in each area is like in the moving to Georgia guide, and compare big-city and small-town costs in the region-by-region table.
How we checked this guide: Dates, hours, admission and parking prices, and access details were verified against the official sources listed below on . Operators change schedules and raise prices without notice, so confirm anything time-sensitive before you drive. The figures in this guide also feed our Georgia Attraction Transparency Index and Family Day-Out Cost Index.
Sources
- U.S. General Services Administration, Per Diem Rates, fiscal year 2027: gsa.gov/perdiem (API read November 13, 2026).
- Georgia Department of Natural Resources, ParkPass: gastateparks.org/ParkPass (read November 13, 2026).
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