Days Inn Reviews

The summary first; ";yer pays 'yer money....";.
Scheduled flights (BA) from LHR to Dulles. Flights on time and comfortable.
By ";Shuttle"; from the airport to our hotel on Conneticut Ave about 5 stops from the Metro Centre on their absolutely superb Metro System.
Hotel very much like a Travel Lodge this side of the Pod. Booked via Octopus Travel on-line. Reasonable rate. Only one problem; We'd booked a 'Triple' room and ended up with two double beds. Well; we're all good friends but not 'that' close if you get my drift. Eventually a 'roll-away' was organised. Meals were taken out-and-about. Breakfast was consumed at a large diner/cafeteria two blocks away.Line up, fill your tray with all manner of delicacies then step forward to the scales to have your purchases weighed. You are charged accordingly. Splendid idea but I can't see it catching on at Matt's Greasy Spoon on the A1 south of Sheffield.
The customary sights are awesome. We did The National Mall, Washington Memorial, Guggenheim etc etc. All free of charge!
Evening entertainment was 'downtown'. The choice of eating houses is vast. Over four nights we ate Italian, American and Irish.

Our star find was the Capitol Brewery which has a microbrewery in the old Head Post Office within spitting distance of the Capitol Building. They brew veritable nectar here.
The head brewer learned his trade at McKewans in Edinburgh. They have on offer, IPA, Bitter, Porter and Stout. Those who decry Ameican beer; don't; look for one of these microbreweries (most cities have one) and soak in a really decent pint.

We also visited the George Washington National Masonic Memorial which is about 20 minutes away, once again by Metro.
Although a 'Lads'short break we didn't do serious shopping which would have been the case had we been accompanied by our respective better halves; we were aware that most retail items represent excellent value given our current rate of exchange.
We came back with more money than we had anticipated.

We would all like to return and widen the area of activity a little, further out into Virginia perhaps.

We all recommend Washington DC as a good place for an interesting city break.