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-====== Fantasy Vacations Exist ======
+====== If you don't check reviews on hotels, you will get suckered... ======
 The trip to **Washington DC** was absolutely wonderful. \\
 This was the first vacation I planned basically where we were going to stay, plane tickets on arrival and deperature... Naturally some things did not go as planned. \\
-To start off... I got duped by the Hotel listed on **Priceline**.
+To start off... I got duped by the Hotel listed on **Priceline**. So the first 3 hours of our arrival was not ideal.
-Behold... the following pictures of what looks to be a wonderful place inside of **Arlington, VA**:
+Behold... **Hotel Pentagon**... The following pictures of what looks to be a wonderful place inside of **Arlington, VA**:
+{{gallery>:hotelpentagon_pictures?crop&lightbox}}
+Needless to say, what we got was roaches living in the bathroom, loud as hell pipes in the walls, not a King sized bed like what was reserved, pool in absolute shambles, free breakfast area gone...\\
+I could go on but needless to say, it was not a hotel.  I couldn't even classify it as a low rent motel.
+So, on the phone with **Priceline** I went, 1 super-visor later and a long wait after being told no refunds, we got a refund. \\
+Not for the worst of the the things I listed above... \\
+No, because the reservation was wrong and we got two twins when they didn't have a King sized bed available from being reserved for **3 months**. \\
+Boggles my mind that after advertising such a shit-hole, they were saying we couldn't get refunded.
+I still ended up going through priceline on the phone to get a hotel, which I will add is a pretty nice expierence if you have never tried it. \\
+Ended up booking the **Washington-Hilton** which I had absolutely no regrets doing despite the larger price per day.
+We took an uber inside of **Washington DC** to the **Hilton** and when we walked through the roundabout door... felt like we truly began our vacation. \\
+It was from that moment on, I knew from that moment forward, me and the wife were going to have an absolute blast.
+Now this, is a real hotel:
+{{gallery>:washingtonhilton_pictures?crop&lightbox}}
+Hotel staff was absolutely lovely, concierge helped us get tickets for everything, they even got us a lovely tour of the **National Mall** in **Washington DC**. \\
+I will from now on, be a **Hilton** fan.
+Side note... I have to mention the lamps the have in the room. \\
+The lamps are amazing... they have these crystaline squares that run up and down the lamp and you can rotate them in any configuration you want. \\
+I must have them, they are perfection embodied:
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