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A Worthwhile Hotel Business Center Does Exist in 2009

Where: 481 King Street [map], Alexandria, VA, United States, 22314

Earlier this month we found ourselves on King St. in Alexandria, Virginia and decided to stay the night at the Hotel Monaco Alexandria . Not only did this Hotel Monaco offer a great location and the usual Kimpton chic rooms but staffers also saw to it that our vehicle, which at the time had a U-Haul attached to it, was given premiere parking on the street right outside the hotel. Nice touch.

Want more? There was a community Wii where some guests were engaging in a digital boxing match, a tasty restaurant attached to the lobby, and an actually useful business center.

Hold up. A useful business center in 2009? No such thing right? That is what we thought, however, this small biz center had everything you might need. A web-connected Mac which was running both Windows and OSX and an ATM machine. Take a look at our video to see what we're talking about.

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Hotel Sick Elicits No Empathy from Embassy Suites

Where: 900 10th Street, NW [map], Washington, DC, United States, 20001

[Ed. Note: Hotel Maven Ne0shell recently stayed at the Embassy Suites near the Convention Center in DC and was apparently booted out of his room with a sick wife in tow for a friend of the owner. We thought this only happened at luxury resorts and cooler-than-thou boutique hotels. As always, this is one person's side of the story.]

I'm very easy going, doing 100% travel can either make you a raving perfectionist or willing to overlook just about anything short of rape. I like to think I fall into the latter category.

In DC for 6 months for a long term project, I chose the newly built Embassy Suites to serve as my DC digs. In my years of travel I've learned that the most important thing is a consistent experience. Give me great service or mediocre but God please don't screw around and tease my expectations.

Unfortunately this hotel is all over the map. Valet parking often means waiting 30 minutes or more, the room service food is never the same twice and the staff range from top notch to homicidal. I brought my wife and children in for the 4th of July holiday and was distressed when they came down sick. (I blame the non-functional thermostats in the rooms; the AC will just keep running until it freezes regardless of set temperature).

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