Rank: 3
Rates: From $375; $660 for suites
Opened: August 2009
A multi-million dollar renovation has updated this 1920s-era hotel -- DC's only member of the Relais & Chateaux collection -- with modern luxury features from Bose iPod docking stations to flat-screen TVs in the bathrooms. The Jefferson's restaurant, Plum, has been lauded as one of the finest in D.C.
Expense-account conscious travelers will appreciate free local and long distance calls, free Internet access throughout and basic black belts and dress shoes for loan upon request.
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Last updated December 06 2010: 11:42 AM ET