Do not stay here if you value your belongings.
The hotel is OK, and the staff fairly friendly, but I cannot recommend that anyone stay here because of the fact that the parking is unprotected and the hotel is located in an area that may attract a seedier element, or, as the hotel manager put it to me via email, "petty criminals" and "desperate and despicable thieves."
Don't get me wrong. I love Westport and, when I am out in Kansas City, it is my selected destination.
But my wife and I stayed at this Holiday Inn after seeing a musical on a Thursday night, and, upon arriving at the hotel, there was not a soul in the streets. I awoke on Friday morning to find a window of my car smashed out and a few of my belongings missing. The fact that there were no people "out" that evening leads me to believe that my car was not broken into by someone simply strolling by, but rather by an individual who targeted the Holiday Inn parking lot and was there specifically to vandalize and steal.
The hotel won't do anything about it except help the police in any investigation*, which I understand, but the fact remains that any and all cars are vulnerable in a part of town susceptible to the criminal element the manager described to me. Therefore, I strongly urge anyone to consider a different hotel when looking for a place to stay. It's probably just a matter of time before this one falls to the savages, and you don't want to be there when it happens.
I highly, highly do not recommend.
*Anyone who has ever had a vehicle broken into can quite confidently say that there will be no ensuing police investigation as, short of a miracle, there is never any clues left at the scene of the crime.