Frommer's Review
This San Francisco-style B&B has two locations: in Adams-Morgan, where a Victorian town house at 1854 Mintwood Place NW is the main dwelling, with two other houses on the same street providing additional lodging; and in nearby Woodley Park (tel. 202/328-0860; fax 202/328-8730), where two houses at 2700 Cathedral Avenue NW offer a total of 18 guest rooms. As of 2007, all of the guest rooms at both locations have new beds and, in rooms that are carpeted, new carpeting.
The cozy common areas and homey guest rooms are furnished with finds from antiques stores, flea markets, and auctions. The Mintwood Place town house has a breakfast room with plant-filled windows. There's a garden behind the house with umbrella tables.
Rooms in all the houses generally offer either double or queen-size beds, but the Mintwood Place town house offers larger units in a greater variety of configurations: There's an efficiency apartment with a kitchen, telephone, and TV; one small two-room apartment with a kitchen, cable TV, and telephone; and four suites (two 2-bedroom and two "executive" suites, in which the living room and bedroom are together). Note: The Woodley Park location has only a communal television and telephone.
Each location serves an expansive complimentary breakfast of juice, coffee, fruit, bagels, croissants, English muffins, waffles, sausage, bacon, eggs, and cereal. Guests have access to laundry and ironing facilities, a refrigerator, a seldom-used TV, and a phone (local calls are free; incoming calls are answered around the clock, so people can leave messages for you). Free Wi-Fi access is available in the common rooms of the main house. It's customary for the innkeepers to put out sherry daily, lemonade and cookies in summer, and cider and cookies in winter. Magazines, games, and current newspapers are available. All of the houses are nonsmoking. At both locations, your fellow guests are likely to be Europeans, tourists, and businesspeople.
The Mintwood Place location is near Metro stations, restaurants, nightspots, and shops. The Cathedral Avenue houses, which are even closer to the Woodley Park-Zoo Metro, offer proximity to Rock Creek Park and the National Zoo.
Facilities:
Washer/dryer; common fridge; common TV
Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without
notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before
planning your trip.
