6th St, Castle Shannon

For my 10th wedding anniversary, we decided to live it up and stay at the ritzy Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh. The hotel was glorious! Great views and wonderful service, with rooms that made you feel like you were a millionaire. The area/neighborhood feel of the area was something else. There were homeless people right outside the hotel (across the street), people yelling at each other in their cars, and a general sense that you would not be safe there at night alone on the street. Needless to say, we did not explore the area very much. I made us take a walk down the side of the street the hotel was on during the day, but at night we were tucked safely in the hotel room.