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The WSJ Finds Mandarin Oriental Washington Too Loud and Scent-y

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July 11, 2008 at 10:05 AM | by Jenna | 0 Comments

In today's edition of the Wall Street Journal's Finicky Traveler column, "Ms. Finicky" goes inside the Mandarin Oriental Washington, D.C., and sort of doesn't want to come out because of the hotel's super-noisy surroundings.

While she didn't particularly care for an overpowering "scented air-freshener" in the hotel's corridors, her biggest complaint was about the noise around the place:

Off my balcony at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, it's like my own version of the movie "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" -- jets from nearby Reagan National Airport, a train passing a busy marina and rush-hour cars streaming over the Potomac River.

When a loud helicopter joins the cast, I decide it might be easier to relax inside my suite.

Yikes. Luckily, she seemed to dig the lobby, the spa and the Asian decor throughout, which extended all the way to the lamps, curtains and wall decor in her room.

So, the room: she stayed in a suite and she mentioned it had sort of a weird layout which resulted in water from the shower going places it shouldn't have (later she learned it was due to the V-shape of the building), but she skips over any details about the bed or whether or not the noise outside affected her sleepytime.

Unfortunately, the WSJ writer wasn't able to score a table at the super-popular, trendy eatery CityZen (we're surprised she didn't bust out with "do you know who I AM?" but whatever), so she settled for a fairly unremarkable but decent meal at the hotel's other restaurant, Cafe Mozu -- "the place where hotel guests that can't get into CityZen have to go."

We didn't really get any overall impressions of the hotel from her column; though it wasn't exactly a glowing review, she seemed to have a fairly pleasant experience -- but maybe we're just reading it that way 'cause it's Friday.

Then again, with rates starting at $235, you should probably be getting something more than just "fairly pleasant", right?

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