Renaissance Washington Reno Came to a Cool $30M

The Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel just announced they�ve completed a redesign of all 807(!) guest rooms and suites to the tune of $30M. Wow -- talk about investing in the economy. Good on �em.

The hotel is located across from Mt. Vernon Square and the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, close to DC�s Chinatown and Penn Quarter districts.

The rooms, designed by Dash Design in New York, are meant to complement the hotel�s recent lobby redo and are done in khakis and cocoa-browns with splashes of reinterpreted denim blues and reds. Each room is accented with clean and modern furniture. The leather lounge and desk chairs are inspired by twentieth-century modernism. LED reading pin lights are mounted on headboards with easy to reach plugs for guests to plug in their own mobile devices.

Other pluses include a six foot work surface to spread out your ~~crap~~ stuff (so much for the idea of getting rid of desks in hotel rooms which we, personally, didn�t think was such a hot idea), upgraded WiFi, an iPod docking station, Aveda toiletries, and PURE allergy-free rooms that, once in place, are maintained to be 99.9% allergen-free by doing all sorts of stuff that we really approve of, like applying a semi-permanent barrier on all surfaces to kill bacteria (and other people�s cooties) and having a medical-grade air purification system.

The spa-like bathrooms have rainforest shower heads, backlit mirrors and accent wall coverings featuring a custom collage of historic events in Washington from 1940 to 1970. Artwork capturing glimpses of Washington, DC�s history pop in the guest rooms in the form of presidential profiles, signatures, and the city�s original design plans of Pierre Charles L�Enfant.

We found rates in March for a King or Double room around the $199 mark or, for a PURE Room, around $259.

[Photos: Marriott International]

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