Les meilleurs hôtels à Kansas City

First things first: Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas. It's located on the banks of the Missouri River, on the Lewis & Clark Trail. For more than a half-century, it's been known for jazz music (centering on the 18th & Vine Historic Jazz District) and barbecue (cooked "low and slow"). It's also always been affordable and friendly a bit of a people's choice among the landlocked states. Adding to its perennial blue-collar appeal: Country Club Plaza, billed as the first-ever shopping mall, and four Vegas-style "full gaming" casinos (including a new Harrah's Hotel & Casino). The city has two major league sports teams, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals. With the downtown district currently undergoing a $4.5 billion transformation, K.C. is a bright spot in the heart of "flyover" country.
Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996) made a splash at Cannes, depicting this "Paris of the Plains" in its 1930s jazz heyday. The city's jazz and blues clubs still burn into the night, and locals and visitors alike savor the famous Kansas City steak and tasty barbecue. Once, the stockyards dominated downtown and the rail terminus was the second largest in the world. Kansas City still exudes the rollicking energy of its past, when it was truly the jumping-off point to the rest of the West. Sprawling over hundreds of acres, Kansas City's neighborhoods are linked by lush parkways and boulevards, interspersed with large, grassy parks. Fountains are everywhere, from massive and elegant to small and fairylike, for this city maintains more fountains than the city of Rome.