Grand but gracious surroundings, including a lobby with marble floors, wood columns, Persian rugs, and chandeliers bedecked with crystal. On weekdays the hotel is bustling with business travelers and executives chatting quietly at the small tables in the lobby. Weekends, the hotel hosts a mix of leisure travelers and locals who gather in the lively Lobby Lounge for drinks from the extensive martini menu, live music, and tidbits from the sushi bar.

St. Louis Union Station, once the country's grandest train station, is now an 11-acre shopping and entertainment complex. The restored Hyatt Regency St. Louis is part of the historic renovation of this 19th-century structure, with vaulted barrel ceilings, Tiffany stained-glass windows, and the spacious Grand Hall lobby and cocktail lounge.

Guests pass through a landscaped courtyard to enter a small, elegant lobby with marble floors, a baby grand piano, a 1900 painting of the St. Louis riverfront, and a traditional cherry-wood reception desk. Built in 1913, the nine-story hotel is within a mile of the convention center, several sports venues, and the Gateway Arch.

Located across from Busch Stadium, this modern hotel consists of three renovated, turn-of-the-century St. Louis warehouses connected by glass walkways. The decor of The Westin St. Louis blends contemporary furnishings and art with original details such as exposed brick walls and concrete pillars.

This hotel displays the elegance of the grand hotels of the early 1900s. Exceptional artisanship is evident from the entry esplanade and throughout the spacious lobby, with its marble floor and immense chandelier. Restaurants, lounges, gift shop, ballrooms, and cinema are off the lobby. Clientele consists of businesspeople, couples vacationing in St. Louis, and medical professionals with business at the large Barnes Hospital complex nearby.