PRICE:
Frommer's Highly Recommended

This well-placed hotel is situated midway between the two sections of downtown: the K Street side and the revitalized Penn Quarter neighborhood surrounding the Verizon Center. The hotel's restaurant is especially popular with office workers at weekday lunch, thanks to a generous buffet of soups, salads, and rotisserie items for $19. Guest rooms feature CD players, handsome royal blue robes, dark-wood armoires and headboards, and comfortable accommodations like the seven-layer bed. Rooms are rather small; so those with king-size beds feel a bit tight, those with two double beds a little roomier. K Street-side rooms overlook Franklin Park, and those on the upper floors offer views of the city skyline. In keeping with the times, the hotel has a designated "women's floor," accessible only to those with a special elevator key. The newly upgraded fitness center offers cardiovascular machines with built-in televisions, treadmills, and elliptical equipment.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Washington, D.C. 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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