Originally Posted by
platbrownguy
Keep in mind that there are two Westins on M Street Northwest:
1. The Westin "City Center" at 1400 M St NW (which is now poorly named because it has nothing to do with the newish City Centre development).
2. The Westin "Georgetown" at 2350 M St NW (which has always been poorly named because it's in the West End, not Georgetown).
Georgetown is a nice property and is the one referred to here with the expensive build and the separate bathtubs.
City Center is a dump and is the one that is located just a few blocks from the Ren that is being reflagged as a Westin. (Hence my observation that the City Center property could aptly be deflagged and made into a Ramada to complete the circle.) .
Yep, The Westin Georgetown is the one that was the most expensive hotel construction in the city when it was built. I vaguely rememebr coverage of that when I was a young kid, fascinated by hotels, haha.
It actually only got the Georgetown suffix fairly recently, in 2010. It was just The Westin for a while, because that was Westin's supremely confusing policy for ages in the 80s and early 90s, to name every hotel in every city just "The Westin," with no place name as part of the name. Then it became The Westin Grand, which is how I remember it.
The Westin City Center was built a couple of years earlier as the Vista, and was also a Wyndham for a while in the early 2000s. It has a cool, retro-futuristic 80s lobby, but I knew the poster wasn't referring to that one.
Originally Posted by
platbrownguy
TBH having 3 Westins within 15 blocks of each other is going to be pretty confusing for a lot of tourists--how many hundreds of cabs/ubers will go to the wrong one.
Yep, this kind of thing does happen though. Ever since I was a kid, across the river, there has been a Crystal City Marriott and a Crystal Gateway Marriott, located inaccessibly directly across an elevated highway from each other. I've always wondered how many people end up at the wrong one.
And for a number of years, Sheraton had a Sheraton
at the Falls and a Sheraton
on the Falls. One was in Niagara Falls, Canada, one was in Niagara Falls, NY. Must have been thoroughly confusing.