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

Where: 1330 Maryland Avenue [map], Washington, DC, United States, 22024

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.

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