Clarion Hotel

Okay, so first of all the hotel is now called «Harborside.» We went to a social gathering that was hosted at in their hall. The ballroom was spacious and clean. Mind you, it was around midnight, so it was amazing to just take the elevator up to our rooms.
As for the rooms–
*The king sized beds were comfortable (the ones on the 7^th floor are at least)
*The pillows are just perfect… made me want to take on home haha
*As for the room in general, it is decent sized and comes with a leather chair and matching stool, 2 Marble top bed posts, each with a lamp on them, a desk and chair, drawer, and an outside closet.
*The TV was the only thing not matching with the setting of the room… It was rather small and quite old (tube TV)
* The bathroom had great marble tiles and a marble sink counter as well
* THE ONLY THING BAD WAS THAT THE SHOWER HEAD HAD TOO MUCH WATER PRESSURE. (capped for people who only are skimming this and it would catch their eye)
*Oh the wifi is actually a little slow.
Besides all of that its a good room there may be a stain or two on the carpet but I didn’t care too much about it ha.
Hope this helps any future customers for the hotel with this honest and RECENT review.

Served it’s purpose. Could use a facelift. Some of the hotel is a little rundown. All and all a good night sleep

This hotel is very deceiving when you walk in. The lobby appears nice, but it’s all downhill from there.
The room was extremely outdated, old school TV and mattresses that must have been there from the 90s. The design is straight from the 80s, and the shower, quite possibly from the 70s.
The night we arrived, I attempted to contact the front desk, I was continually put on hold, not asked to the put on hold, just went from ringing, someone picking up, not saying anything, just putting me on hold.
We then decided to try the restaurant. What a joke! There was a cheer competition in town, and the hotel was clearly almost at capacity. The wait for the restaurant was well over an hour. We spoke to a couple at a table, they had been waiting an hour and a half for their food… they only ordered appetizers! The restaurant was highly understaffed.
The next morning, we go down to the lobby to see what our options for breakfast were. We asked for a menu and were rudely told that they only had a buffet. When asked the price, again we were rudely told $ 12…we couldn’t clearly understand what they were saying.
Definitely NEVER staying here again!

I am a very frequent traveller and am used to some inadequate hotel rooms. This Clarion is up there with one of the worst hotels on my list.
I feel I am not that fancy, and I need some basic amenities. Here’s a list of what I need and comments rating the Clarion if they fulfilled those needs.
1. Clean hallway and room. ⁴⁄₁₀
–the carpet in the hallways and room look like they haven’t been shampooed since 1995. As much as I love a nice carpet encrusted with dirt, I still decided to not take my flip flops off while in the room.
2. Hot shower with good water pressure. ⁵⁄₁₀
–the shower was hot but again, like the carpets, I don’t think the shower head has been changed, or updated, ever.
3. Comfortable bed. ²⁄₁₀
–all the dirt on the floor makes it look like it would be more forgiving than this slab of concrete that they try to disguise as a bed.
4. Pillows. Surprisingly ⁸⁄₁₀
–comfortable and relaxing. Very surprised by that.
5. TV. ¹⁄₁₀
–I know I have said the year 1995 a lot in this review but this tv screams 1995. I am honestly not even sure if Zenith is a TV company anymore. So if you’re in to vintage televisions without remote controls than this might be your hotel!
6. Fitness center. ⁰⁄₁₀
–down in the basement tucked in the corner is this area they call a «fitness center.» Two treadmills (one completely broken and the other had a belt that when you would turn it on and step on, it would skip forward), a stationary bike (good luck sitting on this as the seat has been busted off and placed by the side of it), elliptical machine (honestly didn’t even try this because I didn’t want it to fall apart while I was standing on it since it looked as quality as the other pieces of equipment), and a universal gym (be careful on this thing. It has never been maintained and is a serious danger. The cables are ripping and are on the verge of snapping). So all in all, you’ll get a better workout walking from your room to the elevator to take the trip down to the «fitness center» than you will from this dump.
Top notch place Clarion. Top notch.

Clarion Hotel wasn’t my first choice. But when my flight was delayed and ultimately cancelled late on a Thursday night, it was the most affordable choice with it being unclear if the airline was going to reimburse me and the fact that there were three school trips also on the cancelled flight. Additionally, the normal hotels that the airline has deals with and has airport shuttles were completely booked. I ended up booking this hotel on expedia on my phone as I waited in line to rebook my flight.
After taking a cab (hotel was ~15min away), I was very glad I had booked it as I had found out that I had gotten one of the last available rooms. The room was clean though a little outdated. It still had a tube tv. I loved the variety of pillows available and the cute little description about the pillow firmness choices. The bathroom was clean, though the tub was a little dusty. I didn’t see any bugs and there were no bed bugs. It was loads better than sleeping at DCA airport. The next morning, the shower had good pressure. I did see a baby cockroach on the bathroom floor. I wasn’t freaked out, and this was much better than staying the night at the airport. It was odd that the single cup coffee maker was also taking up bathroom counter space. There was enough room for it though.
Clarion Hotel really saved me when I was in a bind. It had minor issues (roaches), but I only saw that in the morning. Would I stay here again? Probably not. Would I choose this over staying at the airport overnight? Yes, I would!

I was relegated to stay at this hotel during a conference, due to ALL of the rooms being booked in National Harbor (or so I was told). If your choice is between camping out in your car overnight and this hotel — I guess the hotel is a better option… but not by much!
Upon arrival I was given a room where the air conditioning was not working and needed to be switched. Fine, but the new room I was given took most of the evening to cool down — I NEED to be cool. The TV was messed-​up and overheated and shut off automatically. I was unaware that there were no refrigerators in the room and had brought my own food/​drinks which needed to remain cold, forcing me to make a makeshift cooler from a wastebasket with ice. The ice machine on my floor was not in working order. My bathtub leaked all over the bathroom floor. There were not enough outlets to charge my electronics. When going to the floor below to access the ice machine at around 2am (I couldn’t sleep because the room was still too hot)…There were people camped out in chairs in the hallway, which made me very uncomfortable and creeped me out! I could keep going, but I think you get the picture.
This hotel is in desperate need of a complete and total renovation. As I see from the other reviews, I am not alone in being beyond disappointed.
On a plus note, all of the staff I encountered were pleasant and talkative. I’m sure they wish the place would be renovated as well.

Disgusting… I thought clarion was supposed to be a decent hotel. First the bathroom curtain is really thin and has holes in it, there is water damage and what looks to be rust running down the wall of the tub, the room had no room service menu and when I called the front desk they told me one would be sent up and it wasn’t, the beds look like they’re from a 1970’s motel, the ice machine and soda machine don’t work and the tv is from the early 90’s. I am so disappointed and corporate should shut this hotel down. I am thinking about leaving and going to another hotel tomorrow as I am here on business. DO NOT STAY AT THIS HOTEL!

I’m just not a big fan of this hotel. I’ve been here at least 3 times and while the staff is bice, the overall hotel needs some updating because it comes off like a run down building on the Las Vegas Strip. I just can’t stay at this hotel because of that.
I will say though that their hospitality suites are nice & spacious and the time they took in them should be taken through out the interior and especially the exterior of the hotel.

The hotel’s hallways are poorly lit like a bad apartment building. The light in our room’s foyer flickered, so we never used it. The room was unusually cold when we arrived. The bathroom floor kept getting wet and we didn’t know why. I got a good night’s sleep and the front desk hooked us up with forgotten toiletries (toothpaste in our case), but that’s about it. The hotel is about a $ 10 cab or Über ride from National Harbor shops and the Gaylord National.

My church and I traveled from NC for a celebration banquet. We arrived at the hotel at 3:30 am after traveling 7 hours and ran into a deplorable mold issue on the ceiling of several of the rooms in the hotel. One of our senior members had to move her room in the middle of the night which was quite difficult. The rooms were never cleaned during our stay and we had to request on two occassions for clean towels. The TV’s might as well have had bunny ears as the cable reception was horrible. When we checked out the manager was extremely rude and stated if it was so bad why did we stay. The only reason we did stay was because there was a huge convention in the area and there were no hotels available for such a large group within a 40 mile radius.
I would NEVER, EVER stay at this hotel again. It was the worse experience I have ever had. Anyone in the area beware of this hotel.

I had issues with the wifi during my stay and the TV was jacked up. I was only there a couple of nights so I didn’t bother to try to get the issues fixed. It’s a pretty standard hotel. The bed was comfortable it was clean.
The bar seemed nice enough. They seem to have a crowd of regulars that frequent the place. That’s always a good sign, or a sign that they don’t have another bar in the area.
The continental breakfast was also pretty standard. Bacon, eggs, muffins, and juices in those cups with foil, like you had in middle school.
I can’t really put a value on the stay because I got to stay for free. I was coming in as part of a group of teachers that was studying the Civil War from the Southern perspective.
It was a very standard hotel with very standard amenities. I would stay again but I would be just as happy staying anywhere else too. I’d liken it to a holiday inn.