Housed in an Art- Deco building, downtown Washington's Club Quarters projects the atmosphere of a private club rather than a hotel. For example, the lobby is devoid of brochures or bellhops. Just off the lobby awaits Café Soleil, the French bistro that specializes in meals with a continental flair and an ambience enhanced by Impressionistic murals and creamy interior walls. Guest perks include a fitness facility, complimentary high-speed Internet access, and club room where guests can bang away on computers, play chess, scan The Washington Post or watch the flat-screen TV while noshing homemade cookies. They can even get exercise equipment delivered to their rooms.

Hotel accommodations include 161 guestrooms with comfy pillow-top mattresses, room service, pay movies, prints of 19th- century Washington, silk drapes, deep-set windows, work desks, Internet access, and park and city views.

Located above the Farragut North Metrorail stop, downtown Washington's Club Quarters caters to corporate travelers, couples and families on weekend getaways and longer vacations who want to stay close to all the sights and enjoy the hotel accommodations they expect of a hotel in the center of the Nation's Capital.