We stayed for two weeks at the 1012 Pennsylvania Ave appartment and had a great time. The apartment met all of our needs and exceeded our expecations. The apartment and the building has been completely updated.
The location is wonderful with a Metro train station being three blocks away. We used the subway everyday to get around DC. It was safe, fairly clean, and best of all very easy to use. Speaking of clean, we saw city workers cleaning the streets in front of the apartment with brooms and roll around trash cans on several occasions.
The apartment is also located three blocks from a Trader Joe's, a little more than a block from a CVS, and five blocks from the Eastern Market. If you are want to cook your meals you can get what you need from these locations. The Eastern Market has limited hours; however, inside the building is a meat market, bakery, fish market, and deli. We got the sweet potato cake from the bakery and it is really good.
We did so much site seeing that we went out to eat most nights. The Marine Barracks Row District, by the way an active Marine Barricks to this day, which is on 8th street is only 3-4 blocks from the appratment. We ate at several of the restaurants along 8th street and all were good. We ate at Ted's Bulletin for breakfast one morning, Matchbox has oven fired pizza, Extreme Pizza had a hugh calzone, and Crazy Aunt Hellen's which is southern comfort food. We also ate at restaurants along Pennsylvania Ave. Approx. 0.6 of a mile is the Hawk 'n' Dove - we ate there twice, it is next to the Tune Inn which was profiled on the triple D show for it's battered deep fried hamburgers, and at Mr Henry's. If you chose to eat at the apartment is has a full kitchen, we just chose to eat out.
The US Capital , Library of Congress , and the US Supreme Court buildings are a little over a mile from the apartment or you can take the Metro from the Eastern Market Station to the Capitol South Station and be about two blocks from these buildings. Again, the Metro is very easy to use and saves a lot of walking. The typical trip is about $2.25 one way, which is much more economical than getting an Uber or taxi type service.
I would love to stay here again if we ever come back to DC. I want to thank Paul for letting us stay at his place.
Best Regards,
Joel Stegal