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Originally Posted by Adder

Answered on Facebook too but will offer more advice than you probably want there's anything else you want thoughts on.

Even with a car, I wouldn't stay in St. Paul (downtown or any particular neighborhood). Lowertown would be fine place to spend an evening or take in the Saints baseball game and there's the capitol, history center and science museum but even if any of that interests you, it's not enough to recommend staying over there.

The trendy option is the North Loop, which is part old warehouse district and part new apartments and condos. The Hewing Hotel is recently-renovated old warehouse on Washington Avenue, with North Loop restaurants and the like to the north and nightlife to the southwest on 1st Avenue. It's a short walk o the light rail for getting around too.

Another option would be the brand new Moxy hotel in Uptown. The area also has restaurants, nightlife and shopping, but isn't near the train (yet, give it a decade or two). The area used to have more of an arty atmosphere, but there's been a ton of new housing built along the Midtown Greenway (former raile trench, now bike and pedestrian path) and things have grown a bit bro-ier. Nonetheless, it's a more appealing location to me that the heart of downtown, which will be quiet at night and on weekend (although not far from the North Loop).

I would do Hewing Hotel over Uptown. Uptown has kind of a generic 20-something bro vibe these days. LynLake is a little hipper, but I think the better place to stay is North Loop.