【Pros 】
• Great location. Dupon Circle area is a very good place with so many café and restaurants. You feel safe walking around even at night because there are so many people and shops. Also, the Dupon Circle station is very near to most of the major tourist attractions such as White House, the National Gallery, U.S Capitol.
• I paid USD $85 per night, which was a good deal considering the location
【Cons】
• Really bad service quality, especially from the receptionist.
Of course, it depends on each receptionist, but if you are not lucky, you end up not having your room cleaned for 2 days even though you ask them to do. On the 2nd date, I asked the receptionist guy to have my room cleaned while I was away during daytime and he said “ok”, but when I came back, the room was not uncleaned. I went to the reception the next morning, and there was the same guy there. I asked him to make sure that my room would be cleaned while I was away, and he said again “ok”, but my room was uncleaned again. I went downstairs to the receptionist on the 3rd night and a lady was at the reception. I talked to her and explained my situation. She said she would leave a note to the person on the morning shift so that my room would be cleaned next day, but warned me that there was a possibility that whoever would be on the morning shift may not check it. When I was leaving the hotel the next morning, I luckily bumped into a cleaning lady and directly asked her to clean my room later. When I came back, the room was cleaned. I’m not sure whether my room had been cleaned if I hadn’t asked the cleaning lady directly, because the receptionists seemed very unreliable. Also, my room was finally cleaned, but they only replaced the toilet paper and towels and made my bed. They didn’t vacuum the floor, so the floor itself remained unclean with fallen hair, small dead bugs and other stuff.
• The fan in the bathroom automatically got turned on when I turned on the bathroom light. It was very noisy and cold, so sometimes I didn’t turn on the bathroom light when I used the bathroom.
• No fridge or microwave, so I could only buy bread and dried fruits for my meal for the next day.
【Other things to note】
• My room was on the 4th floor, so I didn’t have to go through the disturbing nights with pub noise, as other people complained about here.
• The shower temperature and water pressure were ok. I could adjust the temperature easily.
• The air conditioning was very noisy. Luckily, it wasn’t hot at all in my room, so I always kept it off.
• The elevator was tricky to use. You always have to open/close 2 doors every time you get on/get off it.
• I couldn’t open the windows of the room. I may have been able to open it if I had asked the receptionist, but I doubted that they would come all the way to the 4th floor to help me.
【Advice for whoever will stay there】
・Bring slippers, since they don’t provide you with ones
・Bring an extension cord if you want to use a bedside lamp on a work desk, since the outlet is far from the work desk.
