Crowne Plaza-St. Louis Downtown, part of the Intercontinental Hotels Group, offers a modern meeting and event center along with a hotel designed for business travelers. The Crowne Plaza-St. Louis Downtown features large work-desk areas with complimentary high-speed Internet access. The hotel s services also include a full-service health club, swimming pool and front desk concierge. The hotel also has dozens of two-bedroom suites, 27-inch televisions in each room, ice machines on every floor, conference phone features and cable entertainment. Intercontinental Hotels Group of the United Kingdom is one of the world s largest hotel groups by number of rooms. Ihg owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, almost 4,000 hotels and more than 585,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. Ihg owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites and Hotel Indigo.