Can no longer take it to the Washington DC forum.
Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
More about the location: I too wouldn't call this West End, which I consider to be the area around the Park Hyatt. To me, 22nd and M is just a a commercial area, arguably around the far (western) end of the M Street downtown office area populated with private firms (consulting, law, etc.) rather than government buildings. If you walk (south) toward Washington Circle, there are some nice apartment and condo buildings, so that the area becomes more residential. There's also the GW Hospital area before you get to the Foggy Bottom Metro Station.
BTW, I too remember eating in Blackie's but I was never aware of the INS raids.
Also BTW, IIRC there's a conference center with hotel on the Georgetown campus which I thought was operated by Marriott, but I suspect it might not be open to reservations from the general public. When I first saw the thread title about a Georgetown Marriott, I assumed that it was this property and not the downtown full service Marriott.
The University hotel and conference center was Marriott-run for years and years. It used to take public bookings too, even last year IIRC. It was known as the Georgetown University Hotel rather than as a Marriott even while it was advertised in small print at least somewhere that Marriott in some form or another ran the place and the campus dining halls.
Much of M Street NW is not Georgetown. But you can bet that hotels in the West End and even Foggy Bottom at times have tried to sell an affiliation with Georgetown despite not being part of Georgetown. Not much different than hotels a few minutes walk from Times Square advertise themselves with Times Square somehow.
This hotel is in the West End, a place which used to have the closest major commercial movie theater to Wisconsin & M Street NW and was the Georgetown crowd's main (but small), non-artsy walking distance theater for some years.