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In reply to the discussion: Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot [View all]BumRushDaShow
(130,765 posts)were just there in 2018 and stayed a couple nights at the Capital Hilton (it's about a 3 hour drive from here in Philly).
Since we had all pretty much been to most of the places before, we mostly got on one of those double-decker buses (I think it was a day pass thing) that lets you get off at different locations and walk around and then you can get on the next one (per a schedule) to continue on the selected route. My BIL is a big history/war buff so we got off at the WW2 Memorial and walked around there (my dad and his were WW2 vets), we saw the MLK memorial, WWI memorial, went into the Smithsonian's NMAAHC museum, and the rest of the time was spent on the bus just rolling around past the usual sites (Capitol, White House, the various Smithsonian museums - and I specifically looked for CSPAN's building ). It was in November so we saw them starting to set up the outdoor WH Christmas tree.
You can often get some good rates there (before I retired, when going down to the D.C. metro area for work stuff, I know the per GSA diem rates were pretty high - something like $225 (or more)/night (depending on time of year) for lodging alone. I think we were able to get something like $150 night for double-occupancy at that Hilton for that trip (and that hotel is right near a bunch of things already).