travel42 Hotel Review: The Watergate Hotel

The Watergate Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located within a 10-acre office and residential complex on the banks of the Potomac River, adjacent to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, this was one of the East Coast's most hotly anticipated hotel revivals, and it continues to shine.

Those of a certain age will remember the Watergate scandal—a burglary of the sixth-floor office housing the Democratic National Committee in 1972 that eventually led to the resignation of U.S. President Ri...