You can't beat the location!
This is a few blocks from The Verizon Center, Metro, The Spy Museum, The Portrait Museum of The Smithsonian, and most important (to us since it was our destination) The Newseum. There is night life and dining and shopping all surrounding this hotel and the mall and other destinations are easily accessible. 
It's a beautiful building formerly a bank and redone very nicely by Marriott. We had a 7th floor room on the front side because we asked for a view. I'm not sure what the rooms without a view see but we were able to see the young people lining up at the bar on the opposite side of the street till we fell asleep sometime after 1 am. 
Yea, we were able to hear them too, or atleast the bass of the music from within.
The bathroom was a little sideways with one of those stupid showers that lets you drip water all over the floor when you open it. I don't know why all the modern hotels seem to have them. Musta been ahelluva salesman, is all I can think.
But the room was clean and comfortable with a microwave and a fridge (very generous, thank you) and once we got to sleep we enjoyed a very restful night. 
I would defintely stay there again but maybe next time I will find out what the people without a view see (and hear).