St Louis - Where to Stay?

Not Airbnb but the Union Station Hotel is usually pretty reasonable. Do a pretty cool light show in the lobby every hour. Aquarium and new Ferris wheel right there beside it also. Good for kids.

Clayton. Forest Park is great and the Zoo is free and would be good with the kids. Can Uber in for the game and to the Arch no problem. No real other reason to stay in downtown St Louis.

The City Museum is kid heaven too

Forest park area has a ton hotels.

Good areas would be Soulard, Forest Park, Shaw, Central West End, Northampton/ Southampton, the Hill.

Avoid anything north of the street called Washington Ave and the neighborhood called Dutchtown and you'll be perfectly fine.

Clayton is a ritzy downtown, and very safe. Has a train stop that will take you downtown and drop you off at busch stadium.

Not downtown.

We stayed there at the Hilton St. Louis Downtown at the Arch for one night during Christmas break last year. So many aggressive panhandlers/homeless/vagrants on the street that the hotel lobby is not even "open", you either have to use your room key card to get in or they have to buzz you to get in.

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Everyone is beating around the bush and saying Forest park area. What they mean is spend the money and stay at Chase Park Plaza.

Went last year. Stayed at the Missouri athletic club which is on Washington didn’t have any issues. Went to one game. I’d recommend just hanging at ballpark village outside for a game. Also there is a Hilton hotel that has a rooftop bar/rest that you can see into the stadium during a game. It gets packed of course but is an awesome experience to witness a game or a few innings. So outside of attending a game I’d take in some of the games at the ballpark village and the rooftop 360 at the Hilton as well. Several breweries around the city. They have scooters so that was my form of transportation the weekend I was there almost a year ago from today. Just like any big city it has its homeless people and shady characters. Be smart. Use common sense and you’ll be fine. Outside of informing you it’s impossible not to spill a drink while on the scooter the rest is cake.