JW Marriott Hotel Washington, DC

A $40-million renovation completed in 2009 transformed this 27-year-old property into a thoroughly modern Marriott. Changes include leather-wrapped columns and flatscreen TV-covered media walls in the atrium lobby, and a plug-in technology panel in each guest room that allows guests to split the TV screen and simultaneously watch TV and check e-mail.

The hotel is primely located on Pennsylvania Avenue near theaters, the White House, the National Mall, and restaurants. Ask for a room on floors 3 through 15 facing Pennsylvania Avenue for views of the avenue and of the Washington Monument beyond. Floors 7 and 12 on the Pennsylvania Avenue side have balconies; floors 14 and 15 are the concierge level. Politicos and corporate types fill the hotel on weekdays, families take over on weekends. Like all Marriott properties, this one participates in ecofriendly practices by offering guests carbon offset options, among other things. The entire hotel is nonsmoking.

Facilities:
2 restaurants; Starbucks; concierge; executive-level rooms; extensive health club w/full fitness center, indoor swimming pool, whirlpool, and sauna; room service

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