Not what I expected
After reading the reviews, I booked the Harrington knowing that it was an older property without many modern amenitites. I wasn't planning on spending much time in my room anyway. First off, the location simply cannot be beat. It is close to everything you want to see and a block from the Federal Triangle metro station. That is where the positives ended. This hotel is beyond needing renovation. It is borderline dilapidated. The restaurant in the lobby has left the lower levels of the hotel simply smelling of fried foods. Our room was terribly small, and somehow also smelling of fried food, even though we were on the 9th floor. Stains on the walls, floors, and somehow on the ceiling as well. I have my suspicion that the blankets on our bed weren't clean, as there were long, blond, curly hairs stuck to it, and I have long, dark, straight hair. The sheets however, were clean. When I asked for a new blanket, I was told there weren't any to spare at the moment. But most of all, BEWARE if you enjoy sleeping with an AC unit on. The AC in this hotel is run on a centralized unit which is controlled by the front desk. Repeat: you have zero AC access in your room. We asked about the unit and were told "we wouldn't be needing it during the night". The nights only fell to high-mid 50s and the rooms get extremely stuffy, so we were left with leaving the window open (yes, the windows open!) during the night, which of course brought it the street noise and the noise from the bar below. Needless to say, we couldn't get out of there fast enough. Book this hotel if you want, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.