Cheap Hotels in Louisville

Home to the famous Kentucky Derby (one of the largest and most prestigious horse races in the world), the Louisville slugger (the bat used by the Major League Baseball teams) and historically called the “Gateway to the South,” Louisville sits at the interesting confluence of Midwestern and Southern cultures in Kentucky near the Indiana border.

While many basketball fans around the country might know more about their historically very good basketball team and their appearances in the NCAA tournament, Louisville is also notorious for showing visitors plenty of southern hospitality. In addition to its warm and friendly inhabitants, Louisville is also know for its extensive parks system (which was designed by Frederick Olmsted, who is known as the father of American landscape architecture) is known as Louisville’s “Emerald necklace” and encompasses four large flagship parks and more than a dozen smaller parks—making Louisville an exceptionally green, open and pleasant city to visit.

If you aren’t into the parks, Louisville is also known for its good old southern hospitality, bustling live-music scene and up and coming bohemian neighborhoods full of new restaurants and boutiques. The historic center of town Old Louisville is actually the third largest National preservation District in the U.S. and the largest Victorian district in the U.S.—offering visitors a veritable treasure trove of architectural delights to look at.

For those visiting Louisville it is definitely worthwhile to stay closer to the downtown neighborhoods, which can easily be seen on foot and offer the most entertainment and sightseeing options for travelers. Close to the center of town, guests will find the Ramada Downtown, the Hyatt Regency Louisville and the Brown house. If you are looking for a splurge hotel, check out the historic The Brown Hotellocated in the middle of the Old Louisville.