Frommer's Review
This hotel was designed to meet the needs of business travelers on extended visits, but its casual atmosphere and kitchen suites work well for families, too. The hotel offers quite a good deal for your money: friendly service; clean, bright, and spacious lodging; and up-to-date amenities. It has two locations, each within a block of the other.
The main building, which I prefer, is the one on 30th Street (a quiet residential street that's only steps away from Georgetown's action). This building offers a large lobby for hanging out; it almost feels like a student lounge, with the TV going; games, books, magazines, and daily newspapers scattered across tabletops in front of love seats and chairs; and a cappuccino machine on the counter. In the morning, an extensive breakfast, featuring everything from waffles to fresh pastries, is laid out here. By contrast, the property on 29th Street (known as the "Harbor Building"), situated right next to the Whitehurst Freeway, is much noisier, and has a very small lobby (although you can linger outside in the brick courtyard, where there are flowering plants and Victorian white wooden benches). Continental breakfast is served there, too, in the lobby.
Accommodations at both locations have living rooms, dining areas, and fully equipped kitchens. In 2006, the hotel replaced the bedding in every room with big mattresses and fluffy duvets covering down comforters. An upgrade in 2007 replaced all televisions with flatscreen models. About half of the units are studios and half are one-bedroom suites. Glass-topped tables, chrome-framed chairs, and pastel-striped fabrics figure prominently in the decor. The biggest and best suites are the three two-level, two-bedroom town houses attached to the main building. These feature modern furnishings, sunken Jacuzzi tubs and double sinks in the bathrooms, TVs with VCRs, CD players, and other deluxe amenities. The town houses have their own doors on 29th Street, through which you may exit; to enter a town house, you must go through the hotel, as your key will not unlock the 29th Street door. This building also has two penthouse suites, which have their own terraces overlooking the rooftops of Georgetown.
Facilities:
Small exercise room; business center w/computers and free Wi-Fi; coin-op laundry; same-day laundry service; dry cleaning; 2 rooms for those w/limited mobility, both w/roll-in showers
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