You will be staying Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in downtown Kansas City. Breakfast and lunch are provided Monday through Wednesday. Dinners are on your own.

The Hyatt will serve as the official hotel for the Academy, with nearly all instruction occurring there. Walsworth has reserved a block of rooms at the discounted rate of $109.00 each night, plus taxes; a three-night stay will be $381.99, including taxes. Attendees pay the hotel costs directly to the Hyatt upon checkout.

The Hyatt is part of the Crown Center dining, shopping and entertainment district. You can enjoy all that Crown Center has to offer in indoor comfort (who says Crayola® Cafe and Fritz's Railroad Restaurant are just for kids?), or venture nearby to the Hallmark Visitors Center, part of Hallmark Cards headquarters; Union Station, with shops, restaurants and theaters; and the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, the only museum in the nation dedicated to World War I.

The Crown Center area is conveniently located between two other restaurant and entertainment districts. Just to the north is the new Power & Light District, which includes many outstanding restaurants along with the Sprint Center, AMC Mainstreet movie theater, Lucky Strike Lanes and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame at the College Basketball Experience.

Just south of downtown is the Country Club Plaza, the premier dining, shopping and entertainment district for which Kansas City is known. The Plaza was the nation's first shopping district. Built in 1923, its Spanish-style architecture and European artwork have dazzled visitors to this Midwest metropolis, with fountains, sculptures and murals added through the years. Look for the Sir Winston Churchill statue, the Giralda Tower and Seville Light of Spain, and an original bronze of Pomona by Italian sculptor Donatello Gabrielli. Just to the east of the Plaza is the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, to which admission is free.

We hope you enjoy your time outside of class as much as you will enjoy your time in it.