GBSoren
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We (my wife and 23yr old daughter) were looking for something fun to do, just an overnight, some good food and a little shopping and site seeing. We decided on Kansas City, I hadn't been there so I did a little research and picked the Country Club Plaza area. We stayed at the Country Club Plaza Marriott, which was nice and within easy walking distance of all the shops and dining at the plaza.
Flight down to KC from SWMN is about 2 hrs, so not bad at all. Shot an approach into KMKC runway 03, ceilings at about 1200' so a fun not stressful approach. KMKC has a small but nice GA ramp which is free, cheap self serve gas too, I think around $3 but I didn't need any so I didn't fill.
Country Club Plaza area is KC is nice, TONS of shops, you could easily spend an entire weekend and not hit them all. Also a lot of places to grab a bite to eat or a cold beer on a hot day. Almost all shops where open, some limited the number of people at a time so they had lines but most you could walk right in, many required a mask. I'm not a shopper, I'm a buyer, when I have something I want I go buy it so browsing stores is not my thing, the girls loved it though! I found a bar, O'Dowds, and had a couple beers while the girls did there thing.
Saturday evening we ate at Jack Stack BBQ, that was awesome, highly recommend! We all ate to much but I guess that's what we came there for!
Overall the area was clean and seemed safe. You did see signs of the "protests"(personally I don't call breaking windows and stealing protests), some stores had plywood covering glass doors or windows that had been broken. The area did get shut down for a few days, maybe even a week, during it, but it was all opened back up now.
Food and drink was reasonably priced, hotel was too except for all the "taxes and fees" (paying for stadiums no doubt). Overall a fun weekend. Flight home we caught a tailwind and made it back in under 2 hrs. Heard 2 youtubers, Martin P and Matt G, both on with MSP ATC, gave a shout out to Martin.
Flight down to KC from SWMN is about 2 hrs, so not bad at all. Shot an approach into KMKC runway 03, ceilings at about 1200' so a fun not stressful approach. KMKC has a small but nice GA ramp which is free, cheap self serve gas too, I think around $3 but I didn't need any so I didn't fill.
Country Club Plaza area is KC is nice, TONS of shops, you could easily spend an entire weekend and not hit them all. Also a lot of places to grab a bite to eat or a cold beer on a hot day. Almost all shops where open, some limited the number of people at a time so they had lines but most you could walk right in, many required a mask. I'm not a shopper, I'm a buyer, when I have something I want I go buy it so browsing stores is not my thing, the girls loved it though! I found a bar, O'Dowds, and had a couple beers while the girls did there thing.
Saturday evening we ate at Jack Stack BBQ, that was awesome, highly recommend! We all ate to much but I guess that's what we came there for!
Overall the area was clean and seemed safe. You did see signs of the "protests"(personally I don't call breaking windows and stealing protests), some stores had plywood covering glass doors or windows that had been broken. The area did get shut down for a few days, maybe even a week, during it, but it was all opened back up now.
Food and drink was reasonably priced, hotel was too except for all the "taxes and fees" (paying for stadiums no doubt). Overall a fun weekend. Flight home we caught a tailwind and made it back in under 2 hrs. Heard 2 youtubers, Martin P and Matt G, both on with MSP ATC, gave a shout out to Martin.
Sounds like a great getaway.
