Pretty much all of the above is solid advice.
I’ve spent many a night every Spring at the “Helendump” (actual name, Helendorf) hotel. I used to work a weeklong pro photographer school hosted at North Georgia Tech in Clarksville and stayed at the Helendump. Actually it’s a basic hotel, some of the bigger rooms have a in bedroom jacuzzi.
Bring your own Lysol.
Their ground floor River front rooms may or may not have survived the recent flooding of the Chatthochie River.
IIRC we had an GHTF guy working in Helen, @jace