I'd highly recommend Christopher's house for your next stay in Washington DC. Our host was friendly and prompt in email communications and waited until he answered my question about parking before accepting the reservation. He made arrangements for a convenient key handoff.

For us, the location was perfect. We were only 2 short blocks to the Navy Yard Metro station, in the shadow of The National's baseball stadium. You can look right up Capitol Street and see the new Capitol dome emerging from the construction scaffolding. Parking was easy and free with the supplied visitor parking pass. Pedestrian traffic in the neighborhood was light and mostly friendly. The street had virtually no automobile traffic.

The house was clean and more spacious than the pictures indicate. The master bedroom includes a comfortable King bed and ensuite bath. The second bedroom easily accommodated the supplied Queen inflatable mattress. Our elementary aged grandchildren loved the house too.

We arrived on April 8th to see the Cherry blossoms. We visited the Museum of Natural History, White House Visitors center (contact your congressman for actual White House tour tickets) and the Lincoln Memorial. If you don't want to walk everywhere, Seven Circulator Buses circle the Mall every 10 minutes and only cost a buck, they take cash or metro card.

We were able to pack up on Sunday mid-morning and drive to the free SAA parking in front of the Capitol to enjoy our last few hours in D.C. seeing the sights. BTW, the crowds were much smaller on Sunday, no lines at the Air & Space Museum.

Overall a fabulous weekend in Washington, even though we missed most of the cherry blossoms...