Rennaisance Mayflower Reviews

I ended up at this hotel for 3 days after winning a competition - yes it really does happen.
By just walking into the lobby and reception you realised it was really a 5 star hotel - all marble and gold!
The hotel is on one of the main busy streets in D.C with shops and restaurants all around. It's also only a few minutes walk to the underground tube - very safe, clean and cheap.

The rooms although a little small had 2 king size beds, fridge and mini bar, satellite tv and dvd player, heating/air con and walk in wardrobe. the bathroom was fantastic with a body dryer - a bit like a hairdryer, underfloor heating, hugh marble vanity unit, loads of clean fluffy white towels, free shampoo, body lotion etc and bath robes.
On 1 day we splashed out and afternoon tea in the hotel, expensive but sheer indulgenge and definately worthwhile.

All in all probably wouldn't have booked a 5 star hotel but definately worth it if you can afford it.

As for Washington itself - if you want shopping ask the locals how to get to the out of city hugh shopping malls as they are much better and cheaper than the ones in washington itself. Worth seeing White House, Arlington Cemetry and all usual sites. We stayed 3 days and wasn't long enough.

Flew with British Airways and couldnt fault flights at all even if it was BA223 that was grounded on numerous occasions after for security reasons. BA offers free meals and snacks, free drinks including alcohol and free movies, headsets etc. Even economy seats were very spacious - would be no need to upgrade!