{"id":730,"date":"2012-11-19T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2012-11-19T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T12:59:03","slug":"melrose-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/19\/melrose-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Melrose Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-731 alignleft\" title=\"DSCN8853\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/hl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSCN8853-225x300.jpg\" \/>Throughout my years living in Washington, DC and booking Washington, DC repeatedly, I must admit that I had very little exposure to this boutique hotel located on Pennsylvania Avenue between Washington DC&#8217;s elite neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom, the West End, and Georgetown.\u00a0\u00a0 After a remodel of its public space and amidst a rather significant room renovation, this lesser known hotel is making a wonderful new name for itself as it reinvents itself in the upper upscale marketplace.<!--more-->Its location is superior.\u00a0 Right on the main thoroughfare from downtown Washington to Georgetown, the hotel is easily accessed by the metro and is a quick shot to highways leading to the airport and the interstates.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also exceedingly proximate to a myriad of dining choices including the brand new infrastructure built at George Washington University.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing one notices when entering the Melrose is that for a smaller hotel, the lobby is quite massive.\u00a0 Not massive in the way a convention hotel might be, but a deep lobby that reaches the entire depth of the hotel and with a number of great little pockets which small groups could potentially use for casual convening.\u00a0 They are adorned in modern gray tones and furnished as a small library.\u00a0 The walls are literally smattered with books for guests to peruse as they people watch in the handsome lobby space.\u00a0 The bar also neatly works into these seating areas as does the restaurant, tucked away on the right as one enters.\u00a0 The elevators are just up three stairs from the lobby and meeting rooms are located on the floor below, for the most part.\u00a0 The space here is much more significant than one would assume from its fa\u00e7ade on Pennsylvania Avenue and the space is quite versatile.<\/p>\n<p>The rooms are well appointed, particularly on the floor I stayed.\u00a0 This is a renovated floor and its\u00a0 big contrast from the others.\u00a0 D\u00e9cor has modernized tremendously.\u00a0 I had the luxury of peeking into three of my neighboring rooms as the hotel was set for a site tour and all the doors were ajar when I checked in.\u00a0 Lucky me!\u00a0 I got to see some truly massive suites and was pleased even with my quiet interior facing double double.\u00a0 The staff did a nice job and recognized me with a lovely cheese amenity as well.<\/p>\n<p>Overall very pleasantly surprised by this gem near Georgetown.\u00a0 Great for small to medium sized meetings, it&#8217;s always nice to share the wealth with hotels which don&#8217;t benefit from large scale national branding.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151358670312674.550716.137517647673&amp;type=1#!\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151358670312674.550716.137517647673&amp;type=1\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151358670312674.550716.137517647673&amp;type=1#!\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151358670312674.550716.137517647673&amp;type=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WEB:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melrosehoteldc.com\/\">http:\/\/www.melrosehoteldc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout my years living in Washington, DC and booking Washington, DC repeatedly, I must admit that I had very little exposure to this boutique hotel located on Pennsylvania Avenue between Washington DC&#8217;s elite neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom, the West End, and Georgetown.\u00a0\u00a0 After a remodel of its public space and amidst a rather significant room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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