Knew nothing about where to stay in DC. Got paralysis by analysis by looking at all the options and reading one bad comment about a place or location. I finally decided to pay a little more to stay and Georgetown and we couldn't have been more satisfied! It's a 5 minute walk to M street where there is every possible store/shop/restaurant you could want. We did the Big Red Bus 2-day tour and was able to pick up the bus on M street so for those 2 days we were all over DC via the tour bus. Parking around Mike's is a bit of an issue though. There is street and meter parking but they are for 2 hour max unless you have a permit. I left my car right around the corner from Mike's which is a pretty secluded dead end street in hopes that meter maids would not wast their time going down there and they didn't! But I did have the feeling each day we came back that my car would be towed or have a bunch of tickets but nothing! Not sure if we got lucky or if they are pretty laxed about it. I can't stress enough how safe we felt with this location and walking to and from this location. Would absolutely stay there again. Had two questions for Mike while we were there and he got back to me within minutes. Would absolutely stay at Mike's place again if we were to return to DC.