Each stay here is a way to reserve a hotel getaway from St. Louis: two to three weeknights in a hotel or inn with its own front desk, within a day's drive of Florissant. They run from the smallest town to the largest, grouped into three sizes, with the census count printed beside every name.
Quiet main streets, early evenings and lodgings that are local landmarks. Plan meals ahead in the smallest of them; kitchens can close early on weeknights.
936 people in Keosauqua
A historic steamboat-style hotel inside a Des Moines River bend in Keosauqua, Iowa, two weeknights from $100 per person.
2,166 people in Eureka Springs
Three weeknights in a Victorian stone hotel above a spring park, in an Ozark town of 2,166, from $190 per person, hotel fees counted.
2,877 people in Mountain View
Three weeknights at a 1918 porch inn on the Stone County square, with homemade breakfast and evening folk music nearby.
River towns and county seats with a walkable historic downtown. Enough to fill two days without a car once you have parked.
7,964 people in Boonville
A 1905 brick hotel on the bluff in Boonville, close to the Katy Trail, two weeknights from $120 per person.
17,108 people in Hannibal
Hannibal, Missouri: three upstairs rooms in an 1875 Main Street bank, two weeknights from $130 per person.
27,137 people in Paducah
Fourteen brick rooms from the mid-1800s in downtown Paducah, close to where the Tennessee meets the Ohio.
Downtown hotels in older buildings, in cities about the size of Florissant or many times larger. These suit two or three nights and an appetite for museums, music and restaurants.
59,667 people in Dubuque
Three weeknights in an early 1900s downtown hotel a few blocks from the Mississippi, below Dubuque's limestone bluffs, from $135 per person.
169,176 people in Springfield
Springfield, 169,176 people: two weeknights in a 1906 Masonic temple turned downtown hotel, from $155 per person before taxes.
508,090 people in Kansas City
Three weeknights in a 1911 brick depot hotel in the Crossroads arts district, from $265 per person, sales tax extra.
The bold number is the town's 2020 census count. The little row of houses draws that number on a scale where each roof stands for ten times the one before, so a town of about a thousand fills three houses and a city of half a million fills almost six. The small town getaways from St. Louis page explains the counts and lists all nine beside Florissant.
The amber figure is the starting total for two people sharing one room for the nights shown, with the per person share beneath. Lodging taxes are added by the desk. The hotel getaway prices from St. Louis page shows the nightly rate behind every figure.
If the size you like is here but the town is not, choose Suggest one on the request form and the office will look for a lodging with its own front desk in a town of that size.