Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland: an Ideal Hotel Location for National Police Week and Catholic University Graduation

Silver Spring

Hampton Inn Silver Spring

Crowne Plaza Silver Spring

Hampton Inn Silver Spring

AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring

 

 

May 10 - May 16 is a busy week in Washington, with National Police Week, Catholic U, Howard U, George Washington U, American U, Trinity U graduations, and other events going on.

Downtown Silver Spring is an ideal location to stay for National Police Week and Catholic U graduations. It's right on the Red Line, making it about 15 minutes by metro to Catholic U, about 20 minutes by metro to Judiciary Square. Hotels tend to be less expensive in suburban locations. Suburban hotels on the Red Line are ideal for National Police Week and Catholic U events...

During the past ten years, the downtown Silver Spring area has become a hub for exciting culture (AFI Silver Theater festivals are reknown), fine but affordable dining, and great shopping. Safe, walkable, fun.

Planit Meetings is happy to offer many outstanding rates at the best Silver Spring hotels, for National Police Week/ college graduation week, 2012, such as:

 Hampton Inn Downtown Silver Spring, at $99 per night including complimentary breakfast, for a single or double bedded room, complimentary internet, indoor pool. The hotel is small, 149 rooms, known for good service and high standards.


The Crowne Plaza Silver Spring, at $169 per night. Smoking rooms are available at this hotel. Complimentary internet access, outdoor pool, restaurant and bar.


For questions about Planit Meetings discounted rates at Silver Spring hotels, email Planit Meetings at:  susan@planitmeetings.com

National Police Week Hotel Accommodations

Planit Meetings, endorsed by the Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police,  and NLEOMF, is honored to be working with Police Departments around the country for National Police Week 2012, May 11 - May 16.

Below is a list of hotels, that still have availability in our National Police Week room blocks. To make a reservation, please email Planit Meetings at the email address below. Please specify hotel, number of rooms, arrival and departure dates, names, address, and any special needs. We will contact you for your credit card number, that would be used to hold the rooms. All reservations may be cancelled without penalty, up until 48 hours prior to arrival.

Planit Meetings is offering complimentary babysitting, on a first come, first served basis, for NPW, for families bringing their children to the festivities. Please email your inquiries or requests. We would be honored to help you.

 susan@planitmeetings.com

National Police Week Hotel Room Blocks --  some of our many room blocks with rooms still available

All rooms rates are for one or two beds, unless specified otherwise

Hyatt Regency Bethesda 119 - 229/night

Courtyard Navy Yard 219

Melrose (by Foggy Bottom metro) 224

Comfort Inn Convention Center downtown 169 

Latham Hotel in Georgetown, 1 bed 209, 2 beds, 229

Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill 364

Courtyard Capitol 199

Courtyard Washington Embassy Row 199

Capitol Skyline 219

Churchill, by Dupont Circle  1 bed 229, 2 beds 259

Residence Inn Dupont Circle Studio Suite

            includes pull-out sofa, 1 or 2 beds

            all-you-can-eat breakfast included

Marriott Metro Center 234

Doubletree suites, king room with sofa bed 239

St. Gregory 240

Renaissance Mayflower 249

Palomar Washington I king bed 259

Madison Hotel in downtown DC 259

State Plaza 265

Morrison Clark, by Convention Center 269 

Embassy Suites Convention Center 289, includes all you can eat breakfast

     Some smoking rooms

Comfort Inn Pentagon 129

Hyatt Regency Crystal City 125 - 225

Virginia Suites, by Key Bridge in Arlington 129 - 199

Courtyard Arlington Crystal City National Airport 159

Marriott Key Bridge 184

Palomar Arlington 219

Hyatt Arlington in Rosslyn 269

Red Roof Inn Alexandria  King or 2 Double Beds $139.99

Hampton Inn & Suites Belvoir/Alexandria 150

Holiday Inn Eisenhower Metro Center 149

Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Old Town Alexandria 2 Double Beds $159.00

Crowne Plaza Old Town Alexandria 179

Sheraton Suites Old Town Alexandria

King or 2 Double Beds $179.00

Hilton Alexandria Old Town King $199.00

Westin Alexandria 1 King or 2 Double Beds $199.00

Hotel Monaco, Old Town Alexandria  1 Queen Deluxe $239.00

Lorien Hotel & Spa Old Town Alexandria 239

Courtyard Dunn Loring Fairfax 149

Hampton Inn Silver Spring  King $99.00

Hilton Silver Spring  $99.00

Hilton Garden Inn Silver Spring North $159 – 2 Queen beds

Crowne Plaza WDC/Silver Spring  169

Courtyard Chevy Chase K 249, 2 Queen beds 259

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC

"Carved on these walls is the story of America, of a continuing quest to preserve both democracy and decency, and to protect a national treasure that we call the American dream." —President G.H.W. Bush

Planit Meetings is honored to be endorsed by NLEOMF – the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Found, and proud to be working with them on hotel accommodations for National Police Week 2012.

 The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, across from the National Building Museum, near the courts buildings at Judiciary Square, is one of the most beautiful memorials in Washington, DC.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial,  a 3-acre site at Judiciary Square, near the US Capitol, dedicated on October 15, 1991, is our nation’s monument to fallen law enforcement officers. The beautiful memorial, lush with plants, trees, flowers, honors local, state and federal law enforcement officers, who died in the line of duty, protecting our nation’s people. 

The Memorial’s primary plaza features the Memorial Fund log: blue shield with a red rose draped across it.

Carved on the two curving 304 foot long marble walls of the memorial,  on the pathways of remembrance,  are the more than 19,298 names of offices who died in the line of duty, dating back to the first known death in 1791. Each of the pathway entrances has statuary groups of lions protecting their cubs, symbolizing the protective role of law enforcement officers, conveying strength, and courage.  New names of fallen officers are added to the monument every spring, in conjunction with National Police Week.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund was established by former US Representative Mario Biaggi, a NYPD officer, wounded in the line of duty more than 10 times, before retiring in 1965, Senator Claiborne Pell, Suffolk County police detective Donald Guilfoil and others. They initiated the legislation that was passed in 1984, resulting in the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. They were soon joined by more than sixteen national law enforcement organizations, who worked together to find the site, design and build the Washington, DC memorial.

NLEOMF’s mission, in part through the Memorial and the adjacent museum,  is to increase public awareness, appreciation and support for the law enforcement profession, by recording and honoring the service and sacrifice of our law enforcement officers.  Although the memorial is on federal land, private funds, and not tax dollars are responsible for the building and maintaining of the monument. (In 1996, a federal law was passed creating a Memorial Maintenance Fund, managed by the Department of the Interior, and funded, in part, by the selling of of NLEOM Commemorative Silver Dollars issued by the US Mint. The Memorial and the adjacent National Law Enforcement Museum are both projects of the NLEOMF, a 501(c) 3.)

 For questions about hotel accommodations for National Police Week, please don't hesitate to contact Kevin Elder (kelder@planitmeetings.com) or Susan Pasko (susan@planitmeetings.com).

                                                                   

For Washington, DC Business Travelers, the historic Willard Hotel is perfect!

Peacock Alley for high tea

       Since 1850, the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, at 1401 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, a stone’s throw from the White House, has been THE location, for movers and shakers, who have business in DC.  The current 12 story building, with 335 rooms, and 40 suites, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in the Beaux Arts style, opened its doors in 1901.

The Willard has seen much history.  For example:

in 1861, it was the site of the Peace Congress, where 34 states met to try to avert the Civil War;

Julia Ward Howe wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic at the Willard in 1861; 

President Abraham Lincoln and his family lived there for the month prior to his inauguration.

President Woodrow Wilson’s  League of Nations took shape at the Willard,  during 1916 meetings of the League to Enforce Peace, in the lobby. 

President Calvin Coolidge lived at the hotel, while waiting for President Harding’s widow to move out of the White House.

The first recorded meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research was convened at the Willard on May 7, 1907.

 

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “I have a dream” speech, while staying at the Willard in August 1963, before the March on Washington.

Though historic, the well-appointed guest rooms are luxurious, recently updated, spacious and quiet. Features include: 24-hour room service, refrigerated minibar, 24-hour laundry and valet services, athrooms with telephone and built-in hairdryer, ired and wireless high-speed Internet access,

In-room safes.

Willard’s business center,  one of the most complete hotel business centers,  includes: high speed wireless internet access,  fax, scanning, custom printing (business cards, name tags, brochures), shredding services, packaging and shipping, office equipment rentals, photocopying, binding and laminating and cell phone rental.

The Willard's proximity to downtown, the White House, Cap Hill, the Federal Triangle, and the Smithsonian Mall make it one of best locations in DC, for both business and leisure travel. Everyone needs to stay at the Willard Hotel for at least one Washington, DC night!

For more information, email:

susan@planitmeetings.com

 

 

Hotel Monaco in Old Town Alexandria: a perfect mid-winter escape!

Hotel Monaco, a luxurious hotel by the Historic Gatsby’s Tavern in Old Town Alexandria, a stone’s throw from the Potomac River, makes a perfect midwinter escape.

We love the Monaco in the winter, because it has an exceptional indoor pool and well-equipped fitness center, and has the Kimpton features, and high standards that we can depend on. The Dive-In Movie Nights at the pool are too much fun, even for curmudgeony types (like this writer can be, when stressed).

Planit Meetings guests receive complimentary high-speed internet access and are invited to the complimentary wine reception in the lobby, daily 5 – 6 p.m. Companion goldfish are delivered to your room for duration of your stay.

The hotel features 24-hour room service, with full concierge and business services (but you won’t spend your time on business), complimentary newspaper, complimentary shuttle between Reagan National Airport and the hotel.  If you don’t feel like going out to dine, Monaco’s restaurant, Jackson 20, offers cozy American comfort food. Many of the Washington, DC areas finest restaurants are a short walk from Hotel Monaco.

Hotel Monaco is a bicycling lover's dream, as it is situated on the Mt. Vernon Bicycle Trail that hugs the Potomac River and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. (There are many bicycle rental options near the Monaco, like Capitol Bikeshare. The concierge will point out the nearest.) DC is an easy 30 minute bike ride on the well-maintained trail that connects DC and Mt. Vernon. The ride between the Hotel Monaco  to DC takes you  through Dangerfield Island, and Gravelly Point Park, where you can watch planes take off and land at Reagan National, and byTheodore Roosevelt Memorial Island, a hidden memorial on an island, where you can spot many species of birds, and see other wildlife, on the boardwalk through the island. In the other direction, and a hilly bicycle climb up a bike trail that hugs the Potomac River, culminates at Mt.Vernon (all down-hill going back to the hotel).

For questions about Planit Meetings’ discounted rates at Hotel Monaco, please email us:

susan@planitmeetings.com

Hotel Rouge DC: A Romantic, Affordable Valentine's Day Destination!

It's not too late to plan a one-night or whole weekend romantic getaway for Valentine's Day...Planit Meetings' has many exclusive discounted rates, with free upgrades, for this almost-Valentine's Day weekend.We can offer you a one night's stay at a four star hotel...for not much more than a hair cut and blow dry...or around $100 per night, plus tax.

The hotel that we love, for a romantic weekend in DC is Hotel Rouge, on 16th Street, near Dupont Circle, five blocks north of the White House.

Rouge has had a recent multi-million dollar refresh...The rooms are a minimum 450 square feet, making them the largest standard rooms in DC.

Frette sheets, Gilchrest & Soames bath products, in-room spa services, 100% smoke-free hotel.

Planit Meetings' discounted rates include complimentary wi-fi, and wine hour, in the lobby, free upgrades, when available.

The vibrant deep red decor conjure roses, passion, coziness... and fun!...

Rouge is a great value for a romantic weekend or any time in the city, without children.

For more information about romantic weekends, at the best rates, for Washington, DC and other cities, feel free to email Planit Meetings. We can help you plan an affordable, romantic weekend, anywhere, with dining recommendations, and handle the details for you, at no charge.

susan@planitmeetings.com

For Howard University Family: an Exclusive Donovan House Hotel Discount

 Planit Meetings is excited to be able to offer Howard University family, alums, friends an exclusive discount at The Donovan House Hotel, at Thomas Circle. Howard University receives 10% discount on hotel rooms, plus a coupon for a drink at the Donovan House Hotel bar.

The Donovan House Hotel, with 193 guest rooms, is an urbane, urban chic oasis in the heart of DC...a perfect Valentine Day weekend destination, a great in-town respite from the pressures of life, and, because of the ease in getting to Howard U's campus, by public transportation, an ideal place to stay for Howard

University visits.

Donovan House Hotel features include:

·         Chocolate leather canopy beds

·         Cocoon spiral showers in marble bathrooms

·         Private rooftop pool and bar

·         King bed with 400 thread count Sferra linens

·         Frette terrycloth robes, 

      C.O.Bigelow bathroom amenities

      Gilchrist & Soames soaps

·         LCD flat-screen TV, iPod dock, Minibar

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     For more information about Planit Meetings' exclusive Donovan House Hotel discount for Howard University family and friends, contact Planit Meetings:  susan@planitmeetings.com

Planit Meetings offers 20% discount at the Morrison House, Old Town Alexandria, a TripAdvisor 2012 Top 25 Favorite US Hotel

 

Planit Meetings offers a 20% discount at all 9 Kimpton Hotels in the Washington, DC area, including the eco-friendly  Morrison House, in Old Town Alexandria, named in January 2012, on Trip Advisor's top twenty five most favorite and highly rated United States hotel list.

 

The Morrison House is a gorgeous 45-room 4-diamond hotel, located in the heart of Old Town Alexandria, minutes from Reagan National Airport. Since it is less than five miles south of  Washington, DC, and near the metro, the hotel is ideal for business travelers, or for a romantic getaway, or for sight-seeing trip with the entire family, including pets.

Federal-style architecture, two and four poster beds, historic, but new, a stone’s throw from the Potomac River. The Morrison House has won numerous awards for eco-friendliness, a philosophy of all Kimpton Hotels.

Among the many outstanding features that makes the Morrison House a Planit Meetings favorite:

Luxury, eco-friendly Kerstin Florian bath amenities

Double sinks in most bathrooms

In-room spa services

Pets stay free without size

or weight restrictions

Organic snack and beverage options 

in in-room honor bars

The Grille Restaurant and Piano Bar 

featuring local, organic ingredients

Hosted evening wine reception 

Free airport shuttle between Reagan National Airport

and Hotel

Lovely historic Old Town neighborhood, 

that feels like a world away from the Pentagon, 

and the bustle of DC, yet minutes away

Unobtrusive service

All Kimpton Hotels have, complimentary in rooms: toothbrush/toothpaste, iron, curling iron, straightening iron, humidifier, steamer, heating pad, sewing kit, extension cord, collar stays, and numerous other things you would not think that you might need during your trip. Further, day or night, the concierge can provide, at nominal cost, and can bring to you in your room the things you remembered, late at night, that you forgot to bring, like contact lens solution, dental floss, stain remover, night light, nail clippers, lint roller, super glue. That's one of the things we love about Kimptons in general... They always anticipate needs.

For more information about the Morrison House and our exclusive Planit Meetings discounted rates, don't hesitate to contact us!