I stayed here Nov 4-6 with my husband while he was attending a conference. I travel a ton for work myself, so I am beginning to have higher expectations, but I think it's fair to say both pros and cons.
Pros:
- The location of this hotel is great - it's just a couple of blocks from the Capitol, very easy to walk. This is the start of the National Mall, which I hear is about 2 miles, so you can also walk all of that - the Smithsonians, the Washington Monument, WWII memorial, Lincoln, Vietnam, etc.
- The people who worked at the hotel were fantastic and extraordinarily nice: bell people, doormen, front desk, waitress in the bar, housekeeping - all were very wow!!
- Comfy bed
Cons of the room included:
- Small room, plus one armchair and smallish desk
- Tiny bathroom with almost no place to put anything (one long skinny shelf, gee thanks)
- Noisy - I could hear doors slamming all night long and conversations outside my room (this is pretty usual for most hotels though). We couldn't hear street noise though (maybe because we were on the top floor)
- No view - we looked out at the office building behind the hotel
- Typical Hyatt - no refrigerator (not even a mini bar), no bathrobe, no extras.
- No restaurants nearby. We found that 7th Street has a lot of restaurants and nightlife, near the Verizon Center, and walked there every night. From the hotel, that's about 8-10 blocks, which is a lot after walking all day doing the tourist things.
All in all, meh.
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