First the question. Does anyone here know if Rooms 777 and/or 778 are Junior or Executive Suites. Alternatively, does anyone know how many Junior Suites there are at the MVC Mayflower (the others are Rooms 701, 735, 750, and 787).
We recently stayed at the Mayflower and the hotel was its usual wonderful self. Good service at the bell and front desks and fabulous location close to great restaurants and the Metro, and easily walkable to the usual tourist attractions. But something awful has happened to the rooms.
One of the reasons we loved the MVC at the Mayflower is that the suites had the same furniture as the hotel. Big comfy couches and chairs, nice beds, ample drawer space, beautiful bathrooms with both a tub and stand alone shower. But in the past year there has been a refurb...and for whatever reason the MVC decided to go with furnishings that look and feel like that of the Courtyard around the corner and nothing like those in the Mayflower hotel. Which also had a refurb that retained the historic, gracious feel (the pictures look beautiful).
There was also a lot of furniture missing. There was no sofa. No coffee table. A desk that was really just a table. The Junior Suite theoretically accommodates four adult guests...but the sum total of the furnishings in the living room area was one side table and two chair beds looking forlorn in a big empty space. And if anything the bedroom was worse. There was no dresser and no drawers aside from a tiny one in each of the nightstands...we had to live out of our suitcases. And in a first for us at a MVC resort, the bed was uncomfortable (though the linens and pillows were nice).
To top it off, in one bathroom they added sharp little nubbies to the bottom of the tub making it uncomfortable to sit and/or lie in. In the other bathroom, the mixer on the shower was defective (you had to hold it still to keep gravity from pulling the long end of the lever down) and the shower door misinstalled (it hung open about an inch and there was about a 1/2 inch gap between the bottom of the door and the tile sill) so water spewed out.
In short, for us there is now a huge disincentive to staying on the MVC floor. Particularly since the hotel no longer has an Elite lounge and no longer comps breakfast at Edgar for MVC Elite guests.
That said, DC was also its usual wonderful self. We had great dinners at Iron Gate, Old Ebbitt Grill, and Boqueria, walked around and saw the sights including snippets of Latin American Fiesta DC 2024, and picked up some of our favorite chocolates at Chocolate Chocolate across the street.
We recently stayed at the Mayflower and the hotel was its usual wonderful self. Good service at the bell and front desks and fabulous location close to great restaurants and the Metro, and easily walkable to the usual tourist attractions. But something awful has happened to the rooms.
One of the reasons we loved the MVC at the Mayflower is that the suites had the same furniture as the hotel. Big comfy couches and chairs, nice beds, ample drawer space, beautiful bathrooms with both a tub and stand alone shower. But in the past year there has been a refurb...and for whatever reason the MVC decided to go with furnishings that look and feel like that of the Courtyard around the corner and nothing like those in the Mayflower hotel. Which also had a refurb that retained the historic, gracious feel (the pictures look beautiful).
There was also a lot of furniture missing. There was no sofa. No coffee table. A desk that was really just a table. The Junior Suite theoretically accommodates four adult guests...but the sum total of the furnishings in the living room area was one side table and two chair beds looking forlorn in a big empty space. And if anything the bedroom was worse. There was no dresser and no drawers aside from a tiny one in each of the nightstands...we had to live out of our suitcases. And in a first for us at a MVC resort, the bed was uncomfortable (though the linens and pillows were nice).
To top it off, in one bathroom they added sharp little nubbies to the bottom of the tub making it uncomfortable to sit and/or lie in. In the other bathroom, the mixer on the shower was defective (you had to hold it still to keep gravity from pulling the long end of the lever down) and the shower door misinstalled (it hung open about an inch and there was about a 1/2 inch gap between the bottom of the door and the tile sill) so water spewed out.
In short, for us there is now a huge disincentive to staying on the MVC floor. Particularly since the hotel no longer has an Elite lounge and no longer comps breakfast at Edgar for MVC Elite guests.
That said, DC was also its usual wonderful self. We had great dinners at Iron Gate, Old Ebbitt Grill, and Boqueria, walked around and saw the sights including snippets of Latin American Fiesta DC 2024, and picked up some of our favorite chocolates at Chocolate Chocolate across the street.
