Inn of Rosslyn

 

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Brent S.

San Francisco, CA

Elsewhere on the internet this place has decent reviews. Decent enough for me to book there. But I must offer a little balance. This place is an itshay olehay. The price was right for somewhere with easy driving access to Georgetown, but after staying here I must implore you all to stay across the street at The Virginian Suites, with a comparable price and a much better scene. First of all, this place isn't really on Arlington Blvd. I know because I got lost, and the sign in front of the place indicates that you are on the corner of Fairfax and Pierce. So there's that. Also I had a very important FedEx package that never made it to me at the hotel. FedEx says it was because either the hotel doesn't exist, or no one was in the office to sign for it. Ugh.

We checked in and were given a smoking room, even though we had requested a non-smoking room. Nothing else was available, so we dealt with that. I don't ask for a lot of luxury from the rooms, I'm perfectly happy with your average Econo Lodge or whatever, so I don't care about slightly torn blankets and stuff like that. Room was fine. We were awoken early in the morning by a truck beeping and making all sorts of noise right next to our window for 15 minutes or so. Not the best ambience. Then we put up the trusty "Do Not Disturb" sign as always, since we have a bunch of expensive equipment in our room we prefer people don't play with. I mean who needs a new towel everyday anyway? So we were annoyed to return later and find that people had come in to fold their stupid toilet paper squares. I hate that. No big deal. Then the next day (after 2 of our 3 nights) we loaded up everything into our car. Later that day I returned to the office and asked if the FedEx package had ever showed up. They said no, and then I discovered that housekeeping had gone into our room, saw that we had packed up everything, and then they had the audacity to ASSUME we had left, checked us out, and gave the room to someone else! This was unbelievable to me. There were other rooms so I could have checked back in, but screw it. I didn't want to be there anyway. I got my receipt for 2 nights and stayed with friends in Capitol Hill. If you smoke and just need a random room for a night, this place is fine, but otherwise it sucks, and I'll never be returning...

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