Willard InterContinental Washington DC

Willard InterContinental Washington DC is the most historically significant and grandly conceived luxury hotel in the American capital, a property two blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue that has been called the Hotel of Presidents since 1818 and whose Round Robin Bar, Willard Room, and Peacock Alley have been the setting for more consequential political conversations, lobby negotiations, and inaugural celebrations than any other hotel in the country. Abraham Lincoln stayed here before his first inauguration, Martin Luther King Jr. refined the "I Have a Dream" speech in the hotel's suites, and the term "lobbyist" is attributed to the politicians who sought favors from Ulysses S. Grant in the Willard's lobby. For planners booking Washington programs where the most historically charged and politically significant hotel address in the United States is the appropriate setting for the occasion, and where the Willard's two centuries of civic history give the program itself a weight and context that no other venue can provide, this property is the most irreplaceable and ceremonially resonant choice in the capital. Similar properties worth benchmarking include The Hay-Adams and Omni Shoreham Hotel.

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