We recently stayed at this BestWestern for a week while visiting Washington. The Location to everything is terrific, the monuments arlington cemetery, metro is an easy 8 minute walk even for two seniors. The hotel front desk is well equipped to give directions to all the attractions, restaurants, and shopping. Felt quite comfortable to walk in the area even in the evening. The room was clean but drafty from the opening below the door. We had a great deal of difficulty in getting hot water for showering. It did not seem to matter what time of the day or night the water was always cool. It always seemed to take for ever to have some one make up your room as twice we were gone for over 6 hours and the room was not made up by the time we came back and were required to go to the front desk. January 22 to the 28th

We stayed at the Best Western Rosslyn/Iwo Jima over the MLK holiday weekend, and highly recommend it to other families. We stayed in one of the rooms that had an outside entrance (which was a bit drafty by the door, but very convenient with free parking right outside our door). Our room had two queen beds, a mini fridge and a microwave. The room had 2 sinks - one in the room and one in with the toilet and bath tub. There was also free wifi. (We had problems with one of the wifi routers going in and out, but we selected another available network, which worked fine.) During check in, we were given information about the neighborhood, including a map to get us to the subway and a lengthy list of restaurants with explicit walking directions. We had planned on swimming, but were told at check in that we would have to walk outside to get to the indoor pool and that while the pool was heated, the room that the pool was in was not. As it turned out, we were much too busy site seeing to swim anyway. We would definitely stay here again and would recommend it to friends and family.

We stayed here for a couple of days of business in WDC and several days of sight-seeing. The hotel is in a great location since it's so close to the metro.

The confusing part was finding the hotel coming out of the metro -- here's a map at http://www.winepi.com/BestWesternIwoJima.pdf -- that should help. From the Rosslyn Metro, it is a bit of a walk downhill to the hotel, so it's a bit up going back--not too bad, though and it wasn't enough of a hill for folks in their 50s to 70s who are in decent shape.

The neighborhood seems to be good, so no real concerns walking from the metro to the hotel at night.

The business district is a few blocks north on Wilson / Clarendon. the hotel will give you a set of info on nearby businesses, but it's oriented to drivers, not walkers. Note that you really can't walk directly north from the hotel: you have to go west, then north, and it's a fairly steep hill. Access from Reagan National is great via metro.

The hotel itself is fine -- there is coffee, orange juice and fruit at the counter in the lobby in the AM, but no breakfast. We brought / bought cereal, milk, instant oatmeal and used the refrigerator and microwave.

We recommend this for budget-minded, easy-to-get-to-WDC travelers.

This was a terrible hotel. The room had an odd odor and the bathroom had ants. The manager and the staff are so rude. I was asling to switch rooms and they refused to even do that. The pool was disgusting! It was not clean. I have canceled all future stays at this hotel!