The melrose needs to be refubished. Its showing its age. Peeling wallpaper, needs paint, baseboards falling off, dirty carpets. The staff is nice and courteous. Extras are expensive. Parking 38.00 and other extras are costly. It is centraly located only two blocks from the metro station. Would I stay there again?
No.

We startede our tour for USA, Carribian at this nice hotel in Washngton DC. The staff was nice the room was more than we expected and the location of the hotel was perfect. Walking distance to Georgtown and the subway was perfect.

If you want to have a nice hotel pick this

The Melrose is an older hotel and for some travelers, they may find several small things they would complain about when staying here. However, we are very positive people and those small things don't really affect, or ruin, our trip.
I booked this hotel through hotels.com and did book a king suite with a sofa bed. Fortunately, I brought along a copy of the confirmation because when we arrived, the hotel showed us only being in a room with 2 beds. We are a couple traveling with 2 teenagers. When I showed the confirmation of a king suite, they then changed us to a suite. When we went up to our room, 515, we found out there was no door on the bedroom. The front desk didn't seem to know why but I assume they may have been working on it to put on a new door. We were then moved to 415. This suite is a decent size but not real large for 4 so of course a room with 2 beds would have been too small for us. Not really a problem.
The location is great and we love the Georgetown area. We only ate in the hotel one morning for breakfast, and it was pretty good. There are so many good places to eat close by that you pretty much have your choice of whatever type of food and place you like.
Foggy Bottom Metro station is about 3 blocks away and you can connect on the subway to pretty much anyplace you would like to travel around the city. Buses are also running very frequently from right across the street from the hotel going the one direction and down at the corner to go the other. Unless you plan to travel out of the city, I wouldn't waste your money renting a car. It is expensive to park, if you can even find a parking spot. Public transportation is outstanding and you can also catch a Washington Flyer cab taking you direct to the hotel. If you call Washington Flyer sometime before you are ready to leave, you can arrange to have their cab come to the hotel to take you back to the airport whatever time you like.
You are within a few blocks of CVS, Walgreens and Trader Joe's so you can always find those things you need.
Walking anywhere around the area, we always felt safe even walking to the White House. It is an easy walk to the Georgetown shops and restaurants.
As I mentioned earlier, this is an older hotel so be prepared for small things such as some peeling wallpaper, possible need for paint, some carpet stains and not as clean as maybe it could be but these are all what you might see in an older hotel.
I wish I could remember the names of some of the staff because there are some that I would have especially liked to compliment. To start with, the housekeeping staff for our room always did a very good job. When we needed assistance at the front desk, they were also helpful. The people working the front door were excellant and I wish to thank everyone for helping make this a very enjoyable vacation.
The Melrose was priced right for us and gave us what we were hoping for on our first visit to DC.

The Melrsoe Hotel was wonderful! The Valet Staff was very helpful and very attentive. Cars are parked underground in a private and locked garage, which was great. Our room was a bit tiny for our family of 4, but that was our fault, we should have gotten a bigger room. The housekeeping was great, we called for towels and got them in less that 5 mins. It is in a great location, you can walk to all the great places in Georgetown. I would stay here again!