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Originally Posted by fintstone

https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/washington/wassm/hoteldetail

It is near 6th and C (near number 5 of the attractions) below:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1GiRejbyRa2PgwsYStRonAF0L9Hg&hl=en&ll=38.892351903679355%2C-77.02423566600646&z=15

I often walk past it when visiting some of the govt offices nearby (Whitehouse, Capital, DHS, DOE or FEMA) or the McDonalds at the end of the block. The Dept of Education is just across the street.

I second this hotel recommendation. We (Wife and two daughters) stayed there for a week for our 4th of July trip. It's within walking distance to the National Mall, the Capital as well as the White House. The food is very pricy so we door dashed. I would also recommend the the Mt. Vernon Cruise as well as the Hop on hop off bus tours, which also takes you to Arlington. There is so much to see on the Mall. You can spend a week at the museums and still not see everything. So we each selected a must go to then we winged it from there.

Surprisingly I was not that impressed by the air and space museum on the Mall. It was OK but not a wow factor for me even though I'm into that stuff. What I didn't know was that there is another air and space museum at Dulles airport that has all the stuff I wanted to see (SR 71, space shuttle, Concord etc). Sadly we didn't learn about that until our last day and just couldn't fit it in our schedule. It's called the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center and it is a companion site to the National Mall Site. I'll have to see that the next time we pass through that way.