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Arlington Gets a Westin

Where: 801 North Glebe Road [map], Arlington, VA, United States, 22202

View from the Wing headed over to the opening of the new Westin Arlington Gateway in Virgina yesterday.

While they think the hotel is better than some of the others in town, it's still nothing special on the inside.

The rooms themselves seemed quite small to me. Of course the Heavenly bed is there and the Heavenly bath (which just amounts to the curved shower curtain rod and the dual overhead spray)...
There are twelve suites currently open (that is, twelve suites outside of the top two floors that aren't done or fully determined). With over 320 rooms, I imagine upgrades won't be easy for Platinums. Frankly, the suites just felt like nice large hotel rooms, there's a living room area separated off from the bedroom that's still about the size of a regular hotel room.

They also heard talk of having a connection to the DC metro underground in the parking garage but there were no concrete details about how this would happen or when.

On the plus side, there's wi-fi in the hotel's public places.

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