Architect Hotel — Hotel in Washington

Pros:

The staff was very helpful and their printer was top tier (no business center, you just send your files to the hotel email address).

Location was optimal for me and this is probably what you're really paying for.

Cons:

Pretty much everything else about the "hotel".

My first room had a bad A.C. unit and one of the light switches had blood/red makeup all over it, who knows what that was.

You have to stand up to switch off the main lights before going to sleep, don't know whose bright idea that was! Any decent hotel will have light control near your bed.

The A.C. is LOUD, if you're looking for a quiet room, good luck... maybe I was just unlucky!

The windows (for the first floor rooms at least), are dirty and if the blinds are open, anyone casually walking down the street can see you. Why would a hotel even have rooms like this? I mean, I don't really care that the window is dirty... ok maybe I care just a little bit...

And by first floor, I mean the same level as reception, yeah, I was also confused. Why would any guest what their room near such a potentially high concentration of noise/activity? Oh, and street noise? lol, just read the other reviews.

Sorry, but the rooms are ugly in my opinion.

My first room had no phone, had to walk back to reception to get help with A.C. and eventually be assigned to a new room (unfortunately still on the first floor).

My second room also had a faulty A.C. unit, but it was 2am at this point and I was too tired to deal with moving again (A.C. was at 60 for the whole night, yet when I left the hotel in the morning, it was much cooler outside ~65).

This same morning, the shower had no hot water (I waited 5 minutes and nothing, still ice cold).

You have to walk outside your room to get water, yep... water. No mini-bar in rooms; that's not a big deal at all, but maybe a bottle of water in each room at least?

Overall, I would not recommend this hotel... unless all you're looking for is a bed, good location and a decent printer. For an additional $50 or so, you can get a functioning A.C., hot water and everything else a hotel should provide at a different hotel located no more than a mile...

Booked through Booking.com two months ago. On the date of arrival, two hours before check in, I get a message that the hotel didn't receive the payment from Booking.com and I have to make the payment on the spot (and that I need to ask Booking.com for a refund). Of course, I don't agree with such absurd practices. They put me in the position that I have to make a payment twice for a hotel which can't even bother to inform a guest coming from Europe earlier than 2 hours in advance that something is wrong with their communication with Booking.com. And, if I don't, I have to find an alternative at the last minute.||I contacted Booking.com instead, which reached out to the hotel, but got no response. So I went to the hotel themselves at check-in time, getting the same story. Booking.com had promised to get me a free substitute hotel if there was a problem at check-in, so I refused to pay again and left. Now I am waiting for my refund.||The Booking.com service is total garbage itself too since even after 50 minutes of international calling (costing 1 euro per minute) with 3 different persons, they did not book an alternative hotel room for me, even though I was promised 3 times. But I will deal with them through a different channel.||Whether I avoided getting scammed by this hotel or not, and whether Booking.com service is garbage or not, it does not matter. My Booking.com reservation confirmation and payment confirmation said that I would stay at this hotel tonight and tomorrow and I don't. It said this for two months. But two hours beforehand, and during my attempt to check-in, I got refused. The second time by a staff member who showed zero empathy and understanding and not even a little bit of ownership regarding the crooked communication with Booking.com. Nor for the fact they only communicated this issue to me on the very day of arrival.||Never have I ever experienced anything like this in my life, and I have travelled to 30 different countries in the past 10 years. Never have I ever raised my voice in a hotel lobby until today. Not a good advertisement for this hotel, this city, and...

Booked through Booking.com two months ago. On the date of arrival, two hours before check in, I get a message that the hotel didn't receive the payment from Booking.com and I have to make the payment on the spot (and that I need to ask Booking.com for a refund). Of course, I don't agree with such absurd practices. They put me in the position that I have to make a payment twice for a hotel which can't even bother to inform a guest coming from Europe earlier than 2 hours in advance that something is wrong with their communication with Booking.com. And, if I don't, I have to find an alternative at the last minute.||I contacted Booking.com instead, which reached out to the hotel, but got no response. So I went to the hotel themselves at check-in time, getting the same story. Booking.com had promised to get me a free substitute hotel if there was a problem at check-in, so I refused to pay again and left. Now I am waiting for my refund.||The Booking.com service is total garbage itself too since even after 50 minutes of international calling (costing 1 euro per minute) with 3 different persons, they did not book an alternative hotel room for me, even though I was promised 3 times. But I will deal with them through a different channel.||Whether I avoided getting scammed by this hotel or not, and whether Booking.com service is garbage or not, it does not matter. My Booking.com reservation confirmation and payment confirmation said that I would stay at this hotel tonight and tomorrow and I don't. It said this for two months. But two hours beforehand, and during my attempt to check-in, I got refused. The second time by a staff member who showed zero empathy and understanding and not even a little bit of ownership regarding the crooked communication with Booking.com. Nor for the fact they only communicated this issue to me on the very day of arrival.||Never have I ever experienced anything like this in my life, and I have travelled to 30 different countries in the past 10 years. Never have I ever raised my voice in a hotel lobby until today. Not a good advertisement for this hotel, this city, and...