Visiting Downingtown from Chicago... places to visit and stay?

[pman]

Originally Posted by Kevin1813

Ah yes, sorry got my threads confused. Although I still maintain it's hard to see why being close to big box stores, supermarkets, and movie theaters is a positive while on vacation... again why leave home if those are your plans?

bingo. west chester is the kind of place where you want to spend a vacation IMO. it's like someone grafted a slice of philadelphia onto the rolling hills of chester county in terms of architecture. very walkable, very well preserved, different than what you might find in the chicago area. while the mall in KoP might be the biggest on the east coast there is very little distinctive or even enjoyable about KoP.

Originally Posted by Flyers Girl

I didn't even know about the Warner Hotel, and I went to WCU back in the day (graduated in 1996). When I lived out there, the location was still the Philadelphia Inquirer building. Had no idea of the history until I just looked it up. Very cool and I amend my suggestion to downtown West Chester and the Warner Hotel.

it's a great addition to west chester, I hear there are plans for a second hotel

[rainrock]

Originally Posted by pman

bingo. west chester is the kind of place where you want to spend a vacation IMO. it's like someone grafted a slice of philadelphia onto the rolling hills of chester county in terms of architecture.

A very very very small slice.

while the mall in KoP might be the biggest on the east coast there is very little distinctive or even enjoyable about KoP.

No one insinuated that the Kng of Prussia Mall was distinctive but rather a nice central location to find cheap accomodations.

[pman]

Originally Posted by rainrock

A very very very small slice.
No one insinuated that the Kng of Prussia Mall was distinctive but rather a nice central location to find cheap accomodations.

Meh kop isn't particularly nice and frankly west chester is much nicer. If central to the region's traffic nightmare I'd tour idea of a vacation then so be it.
West chester has more interesting things to do and is central to a nicer part of the region. There are other hotels more central to the ops target area anyway.