It's a dump
I assumed, for some reason I now do not recall, that this hotel would be decent. I was sadly mistaken so don't make the same mistake I did. It is beyond tired and is absolutely junky. First the positives: I got a corner room and it was huge. (So huge that from the bed the remote control couldn't reach the tiny TV accross the room.) The lobby was also nice. The workout room was average, and it is just 3 blocks from the south side of the Mall and it sits on a metro train station. Now the bad: My room is absolutely delapidated. Only a person staying for free or who lives in a shack would be pleased. The cieling has many (gross looking) stains and holes in it. In one place, it is sagging about 5 inches giving the disconcerting feeling it is going to cave in. In the closet, there has obviously been a leak from one hole onto the the closet shelf to the point that the shelf is about to fall down from water damage. Furniture is broken. It is incredibly noisy. The hotel is just 1/2 block from a tain track adn there is a lot of train and traffic noise at all hours. The windows are old and do little to minimize the noise. Also, the restaraunts in the hotel are grim, and this is not the side of the Mall you want to stay on if you can avoid it. There are NO restaraunts in walking distance, other than the aforementioned "grim" hotel restraunts. Those are all on the north side of teh mall. Still, the holel is expensive. Very, very, very disappointed, even to be staying here on business when i'm not even paying the bill. This hotel needs a total renovation and is just milking the last few years out of what it has--taking advantage of the unsuspecting guest--before that happens.