The Charmant Hotel features a restaurant with French-inspired cuisine, a coffee bar, a casual lobby lounge, a rooftop terrace that serves wood-fired pizza and a counter selling homemade chocolates.

Construction crews are putting finishing touches on The Charmant Hotel, a $30 million boutique hotel with 67 guest rooms that is slated to open Sept. 15 in downtown La Crosse.

And so it is with the Charmant, an impressively welcoming hotel with a story that ties back to a very sweet spot in La Crosse’s history. A sweet history The word charmant means "charming" in French.