You havent stayed at these new RCs? I appreciate your love for FS, but they are clearly behind RC in New York, Boston, Washington and quite arguably in Philadelphia. RC no flagships? Come on. Central Park and San Francisco are, IMO, the best two city hotels in the US.

RC Georgetown cookie cutter? Nothing could be further from the truth. I know of no other hotel in the world where you have to walk through an undeground brick oval tunnel to reach your room, nor one with a monsterous smokestack driving through the ceiling into the lobby and restaurant. The FS in DC is cookie-cutter. I have a hard time telling the rooms, bathrooms, & public areas apart between it and the FS Philly.

I love FS hotels...some of them I count as my favorite in the world, but IMO they are falling behind where I travel most. I criticize RC all the time (check my various trip reports), but IMO they have surpassed the competition where it counts most.

Let's be straight shooters here.