I prefer to stay on the first floor of a hotel. I was put in a room that is DIRECTLY across a narrow hallway (~4 feet) from a meeting room. Two of the 4 mornings that I was there, I was awakened early (~5:30 am) by employees setting up the room.

On the last morning, I heard a loud door banging closed every 20-30 seconds for 30 minutes, then it slowed down to every 2 to 3 minutes.

On my first morning, a breakfast meeting was held in the room starting sometime between 6:30-7:30 am, serving at least 25 people that was held with the door OPEN. You can imagine how noisy that was!

This is a terrible design for a hotel. What’s worse, though, is that guests are put in the rooms directly across from the meeting room. At the very least, the hotel should refrain from placing guests in rooms 174 to 182.

If it were not for the early morning racket, I would have rated this hotel as a 4 or 5 (if free/tea coffee was served in the lobby/breakfast area) . The double rooms are spacious and clean. The view from the first floor rooms is onto a garden/patio courtyard in the center of the hotel. There are 2 wicker chairs and a small table outside the sliding glass doors, but I don’t think the sliding glass doors actually open (at least I couldn’t figure out how to do it). I appreciated having daily housekeeping services, although I wasn’t expecting it.

Finally, be aware that large groups (100+) of high school students descend on the hotel during the summers to come visit the nation’s Capitol.