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Suburban St. Louis Hotel With Fifth-Floor Folklore
11980 Olive Boulevard, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Standard mid-tier hotel rates; check druryhotels.com for current pricing.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved
Equipment
Photos OK
Mid-Tier Business Hotel
The hotel occupies a parcel along the Olive Boulevard corridor in Creve Coeur, immediately accessible from Interstate 270. The municipality's name — French for broken heart — derives from a Native American legend tied to the nearby lake.
The property has operated under Drury branding for decades, with the chain rebranding the Creve Coeur location as a Drury Plaza Hotel as part of the company's tiering. Drury Hotels traces its origins to a plastering business founded in southeast Missouri in 1962 by the Drury family, which moved into hotel ownership shortly thereafter. The Creve Coeur location is one of multiple Drury properties in the St. Louis area.
The hotel sits within easy reach of the Monsanto-anchored research corridor, the BJC West County medical complex, and the retail concentration along Olive. It functions as a business and corporate-traveler hotel rather than a destination property.
Sources
Among regional ghost-tour aggregators, the fifth floor of the Creve Coeur Drury holds a reputation that long predates the property's recent rebrand to a Drury Plaza Hotel. Housekeeping accounts describe figures observed walking the corridor that disappear before contact, and overnight travelers have reported being woken by what sounds like someone pacing the hallway only to find it empty.
Guests have also described the elevator chime sounding when no car has arrived, voices that seem to converge near the elevator alcove, and the distinct sense of footsteps approaching their door from the carpet. None of these accounts are tied to a documented incident on the site, and the Drury chain itself does not promote or acknowledge a haunting at the property.
The fifth-floor focus is consistent across multiple aggregator-collected reports going back more than a decade, which is unusual specificity for a contemporary suburban hotel. Whether the consistency reflects a shared environmental quirk of the floor or the simple persistence of a circulating story, the hotel's published amenities make no mention of the folklore.
Book a room at the Drury Plaza Hotel St. Louis Creve Coeur, an Olive Boulevard property whose fifth floor is the focus of long-running staff and guest accounts of phantom footsteps and figures that vanish when approached. The hotel itself is operated as a standard suburban business hotel and does not market the folklore.
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