Howard Johnson Express Inn Washington DC

There was cockroaches in the room. The lock didn't work at first, I had to have someone come and show me that the door had to be slammed just to shut. The neighborhood is clsoe, but not neccesarily a comfortable one to walk through, and there was no place to cross the street, no walk or light, but a busy bi-way instead to cross.

Perfect location with reasonable price to visit Washington, just 5 minutes walk to subway station and then 5 minutes on train to the Mall and other sightseeings. If you drive the car, after 2pm it's not difficult to find free parking within the Mall (weekday).

The carpet and bathroom were not clean. It was a motel type room, right off the parking lot. The neighborhood did not seem very safe and there was construction that made it difficult to get to area restaurants. There was no pool or amenities other than a cold breakfast in a small lobby. Everything seemed dingy and dirty.

When I read people's review about how bad the customer service was, I totally disagreed with them. We got off at Jamaica train station and tried to get a cab around 2 AM with cold and wet weather, and we called the hotel and the front desk lady was kind enough to get us a cab. And they were easy to talk with. NYer are some rude, but that doesn't mean that you need to be rude also. When you expect people to be nice to you, then you should be nice to them as well. that's all I gotta say. Room is clean, eventhough the area was really not a place to walk in the middle of the night. I would not recommend this for family vacation. You'd rather to pay a little higher price to stay closer to city. Overall is OK

SO FAR FROM THE SUBWAY, NO BUS STOP NEAR... REALLY INSECURE ZONE TO WALK AT THE NIGHT..YOU HAVE TO WALK ABOUT 5 BLOCKS FROM THE SUBWAY STATION. IF YOU HAVE A CAR, THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM, THE HOTEL WAS CLEAN... THE ROOM SAYS NO SMOKER, BUT SMELLS LIKE IT WAS FOR SMOKERS... BATHROOM CLEAN, BREAKFAST ITS NOT SO GREAT BUT ITS OK FOR THE MONEY YOU PAY. IF YOU DONT WANT TO RENT A CAR AND USE ONLY THE SUBWAY, ITS NOT FOR YOU, IN THE SAME LOCATION, BETTER STAY AT MARRIOT HOTEL, NEXT TO THE SUBWAY STATION, YOU CAN GO LATE AND ITS NOT A PROBLEM BECAUSE THE MARRIOT HOTEL IS AT 10 STEPS FROM THE EXIT OF THE SUBWAY... THE HOWARD JHONSON.....5 BLOCKS AT AN INSECURE ROAD AT NIGHT.

hotel is convenient to monuments & museums but we would not recommend it

remote away form the downtown and the mtrorail not suggested

The website of [...] and Howard Johnson said that I would have a King size bed and that there was a pool. The hotel does not have King size beds. The pool is permanently closed and the hotel is full of Roaches. The neighborhood is not safe to walk in according to all the people we talked to. We had them spray the room after the first night and still had roaches on the walls. [...]would not relocate us and apply our payment to another hotel. We payed in advance and could not afford to pay again and wait the three to five busness days for a credit to appear on our card.

I walked to this hotel from the METRO station and it is NOT in a very nice neighborhood. The guys at the front desk were slow and clueless, the tiny pool was empty, the air conditioner in the room barely worked, the TV only got a couple of channels (none of which were HBO as advertised) so I ended up watching a movie on my laptop. During the movie a little mouse wandered out into the middle of the room. This hotel left a LOT to be desired. I was really trying to save some money, but price isn't everything.

Not my first trip to Washington, but it was my husband's. In the airport shuttle, a local woman described the area - "it's in a bad part of town" made us leary. When we arrived, it went downhill. The lobby smelled of greasy food. The room was OK (generally clean but VERY small), but we were very hungry when we arrived and decided to call for delivery. The desk clerk would not let us borrow a telephone book because "there is one in every room." It wasn't there. While we were waiting for our food, the sounds from ambulances, trucks and people yelling were just too much. I went online and booked a room elsewhere. We had the room reserved for 3 days but one night was all we could take.