Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites North Kansas City by IHG

The stay was great, there was just one tiny issue of an odor from the air conditioner. The odor is not unbearable but it is present

Breakfast was standard

It was great. I will say the pool had a very strong chlorine smell and it hurt my eyes.

If you need to be downtown, this is a good place to stay. It is easy to get to and it's almost easier to go into downtown or come out of downtown than it is to drive around downtown. It's is also a good value. Only two types of hotels are actually downtown. They are either super expensive and nice or reasonable and dumps. You get something nice at a reasonable price here. Whenever we have a competition for cheerleading either in downtown or at Hy-Vee Arena, we stay here (so about twice a year).

The bathroom door didn't shut all the way and you could see through the gap. The curved shower curtain rod was loose, so the curtain didn't cover the entire shower area and ended up drooping in the middle. We had trouble getting to sleep because we could hear the room above us (creaky floor, talking/TV sounds). It made for a long night because it kept waking up my kid, who panicked thinking someone was trying to get into our room. On the bright side, the staff was nice and the pool area was clean. The beds were reasonably comfortable and the heating/AC worked well.