The place is clean and has all the amenities you might need. If you don't want to go out for dinner, you can order from a list of restaurant that Rachel and Graig have ready in the house with the manual and many maps of the city and other important and useful news. The area is quite and you have buses and metro close by or you can even walk to monuments and museums, Capitol and Lincoln Memorial. They have a cool world map where you can add the location you are from with a push pin. :) me and my family loved the idea :)