Ideal Location
This is an ideal base for taking advantage of all the tourist sights and activities.
Likes:
- location
- easy access to the Metro (no need to step outside)
- clean comfortable rooms
- close proximity to 7th street where there are plenty of restaurants.
- easy walk to the White House and area.
- concierge desk very helpful and good suggestions
- toothpaste in addition to shampoo etc in the washroom
- well organized; we were a large group and when we arrived all our room cards were made and placed in envelopes with our names.
- there are several places to eat in the lobby including a Starbucks (but no free wifi there - unusual as all Starbucks have free wifi - see below)
Dislikes:
- high daily prices for wifi (it should be free - most hotels hi and low end have free wifi)
- once I called the front desk to ask if local calls were free, I was told that they were but that there was a fee just for dialing out of the hotel (?). Ok so they're not free. I asked if I could go downstairs and make one local call from the concierge desk - the person at the front desk was not receptive to that at all and told me that there was no one there anyway. I could see from my room window into the lobby that there were in fact 2 employees at the concierge desk. I went down to the concierge desk to make my call without any problems (was helping some people get back home before hurricane Sandy was about to hit.)
I had a good experience here and would consider returning if the price is right (if I could get a good deal).