White House, Downtown & West End

Lafayette Square, Pennsylvania Avenue and the West End – three hotels within a walk of the White House, the Smithsonian museums on the Mall and the Kennedy Center.

Golden hour over White House, Downtown & West End

The collection

3 hotels

The Hay-Adams

Four-star · White House, Downtown & West End

The 1928 Italian Renaissance grand dame on Lafayette Square – the White House across the park, a bar called Off the Record downstairs.

From $500 per night

Waldorf Astoria Washington DC

Four-star · White House, Downtown & West End

The 1899 Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, a Waldorf Astoria since 2022 – sixteen-foot ceilings, a 270-foot clock tower and a spa in the old mailroom.

From $600 per night

The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C.

Four-star · White House, Downtown & West End

A 300-key Ritz-Carlton in the West End since 2000, between Georgetown and Dupont Circle, with a 100,000-square-foot sports club through the door.

From $500 per night

The neighborhoods

Georgetown

The oldest quarter of the city – Federal rowhouses, M Street's shops, the C&O Canal and the Potomac at the bottom of the hill – with two of the five hotels, one at the Pennsylvania Avenue end and one on the canal.

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