We stayed 2 weekend nights at the Dupont Circle Hotel Palomar. I hate to give a low score to the hotel because so many things were nice about it. However, where it counts, it failed. A hotel is a place to sleep while you are away from home. Impossible when people are carrying on, playing music, propping their doors open, and having parties late into the night.
Management was quick to respond to our calls to quiet the neighbors down but the neighbors resumed their noise level almost as soon as security was out of earshot. That meant repeated calls were necessary. The walls are just too thin. We switched rooms after the first night- the staff was fabulous about arranging this, I should add. Our first room had a connecting door and a lot of the sound just came right in through this. If you are a light sleeper then make a request not to have the adjoining room. We had high hopes for our second room as it was at the end of a hall with no adjoining room. However, the loud people diagonally across the hall could easily be heard through the room's front door.
We were told that they have an anti party policy but sometimes they just happen, especially on the weekend. As I said, security and management did handle things well but it still doesn't give us back our missing sleep. We lost a precious day because we were so exhausted.
If it weren't for the lack of sleep I would have rated this hotel a 4-5.
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