I used to live near Lake George, NY and it is hilarious to see it on the same list of vacation spots as St. Louis.

This list is a bit bizzar. It lists StL as #1…for Kids…& the 1st thing that it says about it is that its “Slower Paced for a Lazy vacation”! Who is their target here??? What 20 y/o is up for hitching their way across country to invest their only time off in a slow & lazy place with a park & running paths?

This is how they discribe their #1 choice? Very funny!

How did they dump on their #10, or #50 on that list: “It’s great, the grass-growing is a highlight & the paint drys fast from June-August”???

In fact, why did they even bother?

What a joke. I’ve always said that St. Louis is a great place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit there. Whoever made this list was an idiot.

The place which obviously SHOULD have been #1: Las Vegas. Cheap lodging and food, and an incredible array of outdoor and indoor entertainment. We spent a week there several years ago, and only gambled for about 10 minutes. But within an hour, we went to Red Rocks, Mount Charleston, the Mojave Desert, and Hoover Dam. We can’t wait to go back.

The 3 first commenters missed the whole point of the article. “Cheap”!

I would have used “Inexpensive”!

Having spent my first 32 years in Missouri (Salem, St Louis, Maplewood and Bel Ridge) I can attest to the fact that if planned properly a visit to the St Louis area can be quite inexpensive.

It is always a pleasure for me to “get back home”. Would I move back to Missouri? Possibly! However, it would be to one of the many towns with no more than 29,000 population.

Let’s be honest, if college kids are needing to come to STL for a vacation, they obviously don’t need to be taking a vacation. This is not a destination. What is there to offer college kids? A baseball game if they are fans, the zoo, 90 minutes for the arch, then what? A trip out to Florissant to see early 70’s architecture at its finest?
Yeah, sure, kids plan vacations around visiting places like forest park and a laughable art museum….They need to save up for another semester and head to SoBe…

I am well aware that this is nothing more than a local newspaper website, but good God people, have just a little pride in yourself and check your posts for spelling errors before you hit submit. I would also suggest proper grammar, but don’t want to overload the brain…..
Bizzar? Seriously? Somebody thought that was a good way to spell that?
If my folks made my annual college vacation one here, I’d pray it was during baseball season so I could see a game, then I’d try Jack-In-The-Box tacos, and promptly be looking for the airport.

I love St. Louis! Whatever it is that floats your boat, St. Louis, or Missouri, usually has it. I usually take a few vacations a year, but am still happy on what St. Louis has to offer compared to other cities. St. Louis has especially seemed to step-it-up in the last few years, and i’d like to see the city continue to support it’s music heritage (like Memphis, Austin, and Nashville). Hail, Hail, Rock n Roll!

The comments below clearly reflect people who are not seeing all of the advantages of a trip to St. Louis. Think about it: Free brewery tours, free zoo, free art museum, free history museum, free science center, free museum in the bottom of the arch, free old courthouse tours, free cathedral tours, etc. etc. etc.

Note the theme: “FREE”

Add cheap ball games, casinos, Washington Ave., the Landing, Soulard, etc. to the FREE stuff above, and St. Louis is easily one of the cheapest places for a college student to visit while still having a good time.

I love St. Louis. Lived here all my life. All it takes is a short vacation to Chicago or elsewhere to once again appreciate how much St. Louis has to offer at a cheap price.

If you don’t like st.louis that much, then why do you live here? Seriously, i love living in st.louis. There is alot more then just the arch, or going to see buildings as one poster mentions. Not only in the city itself, there is plenty outside of the city to see. I have friends who come here for vacation.

They mentioned cheap, free is the best cheap i could say and with so much free this is a good destination for those (such as students) to come to.

I was the chairman for the 1988 Model ‘A’ club’s national convention. It was held at Holiday Inn Wstport because we needed a lot of parking since 400(+/-) Model ‘A’ Fords showed up from around the country. During this week long event, we scheduled bus tours to A-B brewery, Grant’s Farm, the Zoo, the Arch, Union Station, St. ouis Center (It was going stong in ‘88) and Laclede’s Landing. We passed out comment cards at the event. We recevied comments about the hotel, the parking, etc… but most of the comments were how everything is St. Louis is free or almost free.

Since then my wife and I (from Oakville), drove downtown, stayed 2 days at the Clarion and just bummed around downtown. We spent time in the old court house, soldier’s memorial, the Arch grounds, Laclede Landing, etc. We had a great mini vacation without driving anywhere!