Originally Posted by adam34space
Im renting a car because Im staying at the Sheraton Reston and I will be arriving IAD. I thought that to get to downtown it would be better to rent a car and I dont want to bother with the hotel shuttle at like 5am on Sunday. I was also looking at the night tours through Grayline but I think maybe I could do the same myself by maybe driving to the union station and going for a walk.
From Reston, I'd drive to DC or a metrostop, park and then rely upon getting around by metro and/or foot. Going from place to place and parking in DC is not easy except at the best of times. And a lot of visitors get messed up by a combination of the roundabouts and the state-named streets while dealing with some frustration related to one-way streets and other obstacles.