====== 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**. So the first 3 hours of our arrival was not ideal.

Behold... **Hotel Pentagon**... The following pictures of what looks to be a wonderful place inside of **Arlington, VA**:

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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: 

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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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