Stayed at the Embassy row for one night, 19 Oct 2011.
Pros:
1. Got there at 8:00 AM, and got a room right away. nice of them. They even let us eat at the breakfast buffet that morning with no charge, although we were not supposed to. Very nice.
2. Front desk and doorman were nice and helpful.
3. Free Internet.
4. Location for tourist is pretty good: a good area of Washington, not too far from the White House and "The mall", a metro station 1 minute walk and a bus to Georgetown and other parts of town and suburbs is very close by.
Cons:
1. Small rooms.
2. Breakfast Buffet includes: juice, Cereal, muffins and bagles (cream cheese, jam and butter available). Sometimes yogurt too. That's not a lot but not too shabby, as well. The problem was that by the time we woke up and got down to eat (8:40 AM), there was hardly no food left, because a conference that took place at the hotel and the conferences' guests ate all the food! We asked them to get us cereal and orange juice - and were told they don't have any left. Besides, the person in charge of the breakfast was not nice at all and impolite. That bothers me considering one of the reasons I chose this hotel was that the price included breakfast. We ended up having a bagle with jam and a cup of coffee for breakfast. Now that is bad service.
3. Check out - The hotel was not full, to say the least. We had to leave to the airport at 1:45 PM, but late check out policy of the hotel is until 1:00 PM. So, we had to take our luggage out of the room at 1:00, and sit in the lobby for another 45 minutes. That is ridicules and is a good enough reason not to return again.
Bottom line:
It's OK. There are better hotels for the same price in that area. Consider your other options at other hotels before booking, but if you do it will be fine - and nothing more.
Not a Hilton by any standard - so don't depend on it to be good because of the hotel's previous name.
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