2010-07-06

We drove to St. Louis, and, as you can imagine a drive through rural Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to be, it was extremely boring; that is why I'm just going to skip to the hotel experience.
We got a good price on a 4-star hotel, but there was an $18 charge to park, and no internet in the hotel room, unless you paid an extra $9.95 per computer. There was a nice business center with free internet in the lobby.
What the extra stars come from, however, are the small things - one of which was little LCD panels in the elevator showing CNN and various local advertisements. Unfortunately, these panels were running on a Microsoft operating system, and our elevator LCD screen was displaying the classic blue screen of death, with no sign of returning to the regularly scheduled programming.

Our window looked out to the Gateway Arch, only two or so blocks away to the East, and Busch stadium was nearby too. Perhaps that's why the "max price" listed for our specific room was $799 - not what we paid haha.
After we got settled in, we left to scope out the area, but we had arrived too late and mostly everything was closed already, including a local restaurant we had wanted to go to called Max and Erma's. Instead, we ate at an actual local restaurant called Calicio's. We were planning on doing BBQ in the morning, so I defected to what I thought was a Philly Cheese Steak, which turned out to be roast beef and cream cheese on a crusty bun…. oh well.