Review of Holiday Inn Washington - Central/White House 24/09/12
Stayed at hotel for 5 days for leisure purposes. Hotel decor reasonable although lifts whilst efficient look shabby. Lobby area smart, staff friendly, check in/out etc efficient. Bedrooms, ours was on 8th Floor reasonable to good, equipped as normal, could do with a minor refurbishment but more than acceptable. TV whilst having a good picture, consistently lost signal. Breakfast, we opted for buffet, average or just below in quality/choice/heat of food - not in our view worth $14.95 per head plus tax and service. Resturant staff attentive for breakfast and dinner which we had on 2 nights, did have to wait 15 minutes for a bottle of beer on our 2nd night!!! We had one major issue which we complained to the hotel about, we returned to our room post breakfast only to find 2 staff taking all our clothes off coat hangars, we were told they were replacing the coat hangars. we found this totally unacceptable moving our clothes without prior warning and they were literally thrown back on the hangars.
Hotel location is ok, not really central though and a stretching the point a bit with the White House label, yes it is 6 blocks to the White House but takes a good 20/25 minutes to walk there at a steady pace, nearest Metro station takes 15 minutes. Not an ideal location if you are not prepared to walk or take taxis.
Overall, an ok stay at the hotel, not the best Holiday inn we have stayed in, albeit more than acceptable and the friendliness of staff made the stay enjoyable. Other hotels nearer the centre of the city ma be worth considering. There are a few decent resturants close to the hotel.