Great location if your here on business, poor if your here for the sights
We checked out yesterday after a trip from Europe to experience the Washington Independence Day Celebration. This is my wife's favorite hotel when she is here on business and I can see why she loved the location for that purpose. The hotel is perfectly located for evening activities with a huge selection of upscale restaurants and shops just around the corner. We had our college-age kids with us who enjoyed sunning themselves down on the riverside, shopping and generally taking advantage of the fact that the hotel is in the area between Georgetown U and George Washington U.
Now for the negatives? We had a very interesting bug (caterpillar?) drop into the bathroom sink (accompanied by screams from my daughter) I promptly dispatched the beast and never reported it because I suspect that it had come in from outside (I had just discovered that the room windows were wide open and closed them). This prompted a comment from my wife that she had on a previous stay had had to have the bedding fumigated for "fleas". The rooms were otherwise superficially quite clean meaning don't look under the beds. Unfortunately even the best of hotels are being hit by that problem so it is possibly unfare to downrate for that issue but the crowd of dustdevils and ribbon under the bed and the failure to close the windows frommthe previous tenant does.
The breakfast is OK but with the influx of the 4th of July tourists, the breakfast area became overcrowded and in the end they ran out of food. That has to force a downrate.
But I have to comment the conditions in Washinton at the time. On the night of the 29th Washington was hit with a major storm and over a million people lost power. So I wonder about fpb2012. Europeans hate airconditioning with its on-off cycling and have to adopt one of two solutions, either turn the AC off and open the windows or turn the fan to ON and live with the noise. As to the fridge, was it the Ice maker or the compressor and ... ours wasn't 20 yrs old. (it wasn't a Miele it was a Hotpoint which corrresponds to Ariston). And for Rezarta, the 30th St location doesn't fit that description.
One would however expect management comments to those reviews.
We had a two bedroom suite and that fit our bill perfectly. The fan noise even fit perfectly because that meant that the jetlagged parents could sleep soundly while the kids were still awake and I could get up early and not disturb them when I made myself my morning coffee in the suite's kitchen. But since the point of our visit was to see the sights, I would have chosen a more central location.