Fantastic tour - both my kids and I loved it and were completely fascinated the entire time. It doesn't take that long and there is action everywhere. Would recommend to anyone with kids over 7 or 8.... Younger kids would be bored the entire time. We got to see 3 live broadcasts - CNN, HLN & CNN Latin. Very funny to see the anchors munching on food while they were off camera for 10 seconds and completely back to business when the camera came back to them.
A "mall' food court on the ground floor.
As part of our "Hometown Tourist" project this year, we went took the "Inside CNN" tour this week. Our tour group was fairly small. We loved seeing the anchors in the studios during the news as well as during the breaks. The explanations of how the news shows are made were fascinating as well as the newsrooms. Since there are lots of stairs, strollers would be impractical. The tour lasted about an hour; have a snack and use the restrooms beforehand.
I went a tour of the CNN building with a school group. The tour begins with riding the world's longest escalator. It takes a long time to get up that thing too! There was a green screen explanation and demonstration which the kids enjoyed. We toured a lot of studios within the building and received great information about how things worked in the CNN building and in the CNN network. I think the tour would have been more exciting if there had actually been some reporters in some of the studios. I guess we were there on a quiet day.
A fun time watching the way things are done behind the scenes. The CNN building is neat with lots to see and places to eat. They have gift shops and the kids will love the Disney gift shop. They have a ramp where there are step with is great for strollers. Good for the whole family.
We went to the CNN building while traveling through Atlanta, however we did not tour because it was rather pricey for our family. We enjoyed lunch in the food court! There were many yummy choices! And we bought souvieners in the CNN giftshop. Our kids enjoyed browsing in the Cartoon Network gift shop! We took a fun picture in front of the CNN sign and looked around the building in amazement! It was really a neat place to go, even if it was mostly just for lunch.
We went on this tour with a school group. It was kind of cool seeing the news studios and watching an actual broadcast of the news. Be prepared for a lot of walking though! We went up an incredibly huge escalator at the beginning and then spent the tour walking back down. Get a snack before you go because there is no food allowed on the tour. Try out the food court beforehand.