<p>My daughter and I will be visiting AU and GWU in February. We will not have a car and will be relying on cabs and the metro. Does anyone have recommendations for a hotel somewhere between these 2 schools that is convienient to the metro? (I’d like to possibly leave our luggage at the hotel while we visit the schools.)</p>
<p>We will visit those 2 schools one day and JHU and Loyola on another day, so we will spend one night in DC and one night in Baltimore. If anyone has info for Baltimore that would be helpful as well.</p>
<p>My son is an AU graduate, so we stayed in DC several times over the 4 years he was there. I almost always used either Hotwire or Priceline and picked the Dupont Circle/Connecticut Avenue area. The two hotels I got most often were the Omni Shoreham and the Hilton Towers. The Omni was my favorite by far, and is right by the Woodley Park metro stop, which is also the stop for the National Zoo. The Hilton is more than fine also, and is closer to the Dupont Circle stop. </p>
<p>Both of these stops are on the Red Line, which you can take north to Tenleytown to AU. The AU shuttle stops right at the Metro station. For GW, take the Red Line the other direction to Metro Center and change for the Orange or Blue lines to Foggy Bottom.</p>
<p>There are several other hotels in the Dupont Circle area, not to mention lots of restaurants. Good luck! And sorry I can't help with Baltimore - I've never been there.</p>
<p>I'd also look at rates and reviews of hotels in Bethesda, which is just north on the Red Line and might be a little less expensive than a downtown hotel.</p>
<p>I'd choose the Friendship Heights area - it's right at the border of DC and Maryland. There is I believe an Embassy Suites there. There is a red line metro stop at your door and the N4 bus takes you to American - about 10 minutes door-to-door. This area is safe and has lots of restaurants and shops.</p>
<p>The Embassy Suites in Friendship Heights is great - includes a full, made to order breakfast. The hotel is actually within a shopping mall, which includes a Cheesecake Factory restaurant. There are several other restaurants nearby as well.The Red Line is in the basement of the hotel, and Tenleytown/AU is only one stop away. You can take the shuttle to the AU main campus from there, or walk the mile or so from the station to the campus</p>
<p>Our older son is in school near Boston, and after a couple visits we realized it was a lot easier to leave the car at the hotel and travel via the T/subway. Is this the case in DC as well? I don't picture Washington as being quite so congested, though my sister warned me about traffic on the Beltway. </p>
<p>We will be visiting GW and American on the same day. It it easy enough to get from one to the other (and back to the hotel again) via subway?</p>
<p>My mom and I stayed at the Savoy Suites Georgetown (they had a deal going at the time). We took the local bus to/from AU and our hotel and then another local bus from our hotel to GW the next day. I am pretty sure you can get the metro/subway to/from AU/GW then using the AU shuttle from the metro as well.</p>
<p>To visit both American and GW, assuming you are starting out with AU: Take the Red Line to Metro Center, then take an escalator down to the Blue or Orange line. Get off at Foggy Bottom/GWU and you will come up right in front of GWU hospital and minutes from anywhere you need to go.</p>