Pack your ear plugs!
Booked this hotel through BA.com assuming it must be good and then went on to read some of the reviews on here and wishing I could cancel!
The positives first, at £100 for a family room it's cheap and just 10 minutes or less from downtown DC, the hotel is new and clean with a huge rooms. The metro is 30 seconds away, a 7-11 next door, free coffee in the lobby and free fast wi fi.
The downside is the NOISE coming from the metro tracks and the AMTrack line right outside the hotel and 2 highways next door. I called ahead and asked for a room away from the trains and was told all the family rooms are on the same side!?
Sure enough when we checked in we were given ear plugs - a first anywhere for me. It's not just the noise of the trains on the tracks but the constant sounding of the trains Bull Horns right throught the night!! This is the main line from Washington to New York etc so is a busy line.
Along with the constant police/fire/paramedics sirens responding to the countless emergencies all night long it meant the whole family had 3 sleepless nights which totally ruined our holiday.
I guess if you get a room on the other side is should be better but I wouldn't risk it.
Quite nice hotel in a crap area just about sums it up.