Reports from a quest for quality and silence: The Marriott Metro Center in Washington, DC
I’ve decided to merge my two blogs which, so far, I wanted to keep separate because of their potentially different readership. But now I think that they are just two connected aspects of my life and, hey, a weblog should report about exactly this. Within certain boundaries, of course :-).
So, while Steinblog was about my scientific life and event or news related to it, my travel blog reported about two other aspects, the need to travel a lot and the better and less good places that I encounter as well as my passion for good food (liquid and solid) and the places where you get it. I called this travel blog “Reports from a quest for quality and silence” because that’s what it is. And quality and silence is hard to find.
A short while ago I stayed at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington during the 2009 ACS Fall National Meeting. The first night was good, the room is nice and reasonably quiet, as requested. My satisfaction received a first hit when I tried to have breakfast the morning after and, after being seated, found myself between two competing sources of loud music, one from the lobby and one from the bar in the breakfast restaurant. So much for my quest for silence 🙂 The local starbucks did a much better job, so I had breakfast there. Overall, the Marriott Metro Center gets a good rating:
Location: 8/10, two blocks away from the conference center, $50 by taxi from the airport.
Room: 7/10 Could be bigger but well fitted with everything you need. Nice wide LCD TV. Internet for $12 a day.
Lobby and Chill-out areas: 5/10. Lobby area is too small, as is the seating area with too few sofas and chairs.
Breakfast: 3/10 See above. Couldn’t really test it but even without the music the place feels a bit like eating in the middle of a highway.
Room Service and Laundry: 8/10, Fast, reliable.
Concierge: 8/10 Very friendly and professional.
Gym: 9/10, well equipped, spacey, every machine you need, yoga mats available.
Overall, my impression was more like 7/10.
Categorised as: Business, Conferences and Meetings, Hotels, Life of Chris
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