- Joined
- Jul 19, 2007
- Messages
- 7,128
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- 599
- Location
- Carlsbad, CA
- Resorts Owned
- Marriott: Maui Ocean Club Lahaina Villas (3BRx5), Ko Olina, Shadow Ridge II, Willow Ridge, Aruba Ocean Club, DC Points HGVC: Flamingo, Sea World, I-Drive, Starwood Bella (x4), SDO, TradeWinds, Worldmark
All,
This week is Jack’s excursion week at his high school, so he is off on an adventure to Santa Barbara (happy for him!). Jonell and I took advantage of his trip by sneaking out to Washington DC for a few days. We debated between staying at the Marriott property (the Mayflower) or HGVC’s The District, and opted for the HGVC.
It is an interesting property — very well located and the 1BR that we are staying in is a classic 1BR suite with a kitchenette. This property is part of an Embassy Suites hotel, and they have reserved the top two floors to be the HGVC timeshare conversion. It is very well located, at 22nd and N, and was about a 25 minute walk to the Mall (and another 25 minute walk to the Spy Museum, which is very cool).
The stay includes two happy hour drinks per person (5:30-7pm) and also a breakfast per person. What intrigues me the most is the physical infrastructure — this is an Embassy Suites Hotel where they’ve taken 25% of the available rooms and converted them to timeshare. If any of you have ever stayed at an Embassy Suites Hotel (large square with an atrium in the middle) then you know exactly what to expect from this property. It’s a good room — and they clearly renovated the top two floors (all floors?) at the expense of HGVC and I’m glad they did. But it definitely feels like a hotel.
I am curious if we will see more Embassy Suites conversions because it’s easy to carve out the top two floors and make them timeshares, and then renovate the entire property. Great locations and immediate cost sharing of the overhead from the timeshare owners.
We will see — I love the location and we will come again to this property when we visit DC again. I welcome the views of others who have stayed it, there is much to like about this property.
Best,
Greg
This week is Jack’s excursion week at his high school, so he is off on an adventure to Santa Barbara (happy for him!). Jonell and I took advantage of his trip by sneaking out to Washington DC for a few days. We debated between staying at the Marriott property (the Mayflower) or HGVC’s The District, and opted for the HGVC.
It is an interesting property — very well located and the 1BR that we are staying in is a classic 1BR suite with a kitchenette. This property is part of an Embassy Suites hotel, and they have reserved the top two floors to be the HGVC timeshare conversion. It is very well located, at 22nd and N, and was about a 25 minute walk to the Mall (and another 25 minute walk to the Spy Museum, which is very cool).
The stay includes two happy hour drinks per person (5:30-7pm) and also a breakfast per person. What intrigues me the most is the physical infrastructure — this is an Embassy Suites Hotel where they’ve taken 25% of the available rooms and converted them to timeshare. If any of you have ever stayed at an Embassy Suites Hotel (large square with an atrium in the middle) then you know exactly what to expect from this property. It’s a good room — and they clearly renovated the top two floors (all floors?) at the expense of HGVC and I’m glad they did. But it definitely feels like a hotel.
I am curious if we will see more Embassy Suites conversions because it’s easy to carve out the top two floors and make them timeshares, and then renovate the entire property. Great locations and immediate cost sharing of the overhead from the timeshare owners.
We will see — I love the location and we will come again to this property when we visit DC again. I welcome the views of others who have stayed it, there is much to like about this property.
Best,
Greg