We just came back from staying at the Washington Suites Georgetown and I had to put in my 5 cents. In this day an age of extremely expensive hotels that cater to families, this is a must. Whenever we travel (family of 4-2 adults and a 4yr and 2yrolds) we always must have a two room suite. Not only does it save our sanity during the day (most of them have two tvs) but at night since we do not go to bed at 8:00pm, the kids go to bed and we stay up.
Back to my review.

pros:
- two room suite with pull out, kitchenette with everything you might need and plenty of stores and restaurants nearby. Stock up at Trader Joes and you will save lots.

- FREE breakfast. regardless of what they might serve. IT IS FREE. Coffee, cereal, milk, juice, pastries, hard boiled eggs, bagels, etc.
- great location. regardless of where you are going a bus, circulator or train will get you where you need to be
- great rates for the suite
- clean and decent sized rooms for a suite

now for the cons, which are not negatives, but just my impression of the hotel and staff

- not overly friendly staff. We checked in and the person was corteous, but that was it. Through out our stay, the only other person that I saw smiling and/or greet us with a good morning was the maid, which we made sure we took note for since we appreciate the little things.
- when we checked out, the person was, again, fine, but too quick to move on to the next person even though there were two of us and she had not finished with me yet.
- as noted in other reviews, the heating/cooling not the best. Since there is no way to control the temperature(yes, there is a control, but you only have the option of two settings, high or low and even on low it is too cold. my children where freezing in the sitting area while they were sleeping so we just turned the air off completely so the hotel saved on us since we were gone all day and we turned the air off during the night. The bedroom side does get a little too warm but we rather be warm than my children freeze.)
-as in other comments, there is a lot of construction. We requested a room on one of the top floors and facing the back of the hotel, we got the top and facing the front of the house. Not wanting to move, we stayed. If you do not open the windows, and close the curtains, the noise gets muffled. And I am a very light sleeper.

When I read reviews for hotels I want to know how the bad reviews will affect my family. In this case, the pros definately outweigh the negatives and we will be back. Unless we find a better deal with the ammenities that we look for.

My wife, two teenage sons and I stayed in the Washington Suites in July and had a wonderful time. We had a one bedroom suite with a pull out sofa. The room was quite large and we had plenty of room. It had a full kitchen, which when we booked we were planning to use, but we did cook at all. It was great to have the larger refrigerator though. They have a little get together every Tuesday and it was nice. They had pork barbeque sandwiches, potato salad, beer, wine and lemonade. Every one of the staff was very helpful and went out of there way to help. The location was great; we walked to Georgetown, Lincoln Memorial and from the National Archives and the Foggy Bottom Metro Station was a 7 minute walk. There are a few restaurants very close to the hotel and a small grocery store across the street. We drove our car to DC and they had a $30 a night charge for parking the car. It was actually park in the basement of the hotel where it was safe. We had them park it when we arrived and had them get it when we left. We really enjoyed our stay at the Washington Suites.

Friendly staff.
Great location - right down the street from all the shops in Georgetown and a real quick walk to the Metro stop (Foggy Bottom).
Very safe area.
Trader Joes right across the street.
The room was a great size- big living room, nice TVs. Kitchen cabinets were outdated but the microwave and dishwasher and full size fridge were new.
New carpet in the room.
Two queen size beds.
AWFUL OLD MATTRESSES. Being younger it didnt matter to me too much buy my parents had a hard time. I slept so well tho after walking around all of DC.
I would stay here again. Decent prices and awesome location.

.....We had finding Washington Suites for a long weekend stay. Having stayed in New York "suite hotels" before - we were astonished at how far this exceeded our expectations. Reception was friendly and efficient, the rooms were large, clean, comfortable and well furnished, and the location is excellent for a tourist trip. The only thing we would have changed would be to ask for a room at the back - ours was 6th floor overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue and was a bit noisy.