The hotel is warm and inviting with an updated decor, and friendly staff. The rooms are large and well-appointed, and the breakfast eating area is spacious with many people using it in the evening to play board games or to simply sit and talk. The breakfast is nicely stocked with a variety of food ranging from waffles, sausage and eggs to oatmeal, yogurt, and cold cereal. The location cannot be beat as it is within walking distance of the zoo, science museum, and planetarium. If you’re an avid walker or runner, I cannot think of a better place to walk or run than the Forest Park trails. The hotel is centrally located, which means you can easily access the downtown area for the Gateway Arch, Old Courthouse, Cardinals baseball and Blues hockey. You can easily reach the heart of South and North St Louis within 10 minutes, and Lambert International Airport within 20 minutes. In addition to the restaurant’s breakfast offerings, they hotel also sells food and drink items near the front desk. There is a restaurant next door to the hotel; a Jimmy Johns (JJ) within a two minute walk of the hotel, and a Comet coffee shop within a two minute walk of the hotel. There is an IMO’s pizza within a five minute walk of the hotel, and I saw a new restaurant being built within a five minute walk of the hotel in the opposite direction of the IMO’s. I will return to St Louis in August, and I’ve already booked another reservation at this hotel for the August trip. In the past, I’ve stayed at quite a few St. Louis hotels, and some were downtown or near the airport. This hotel is my new “go to” hotel when I visit St. Louis.