Guests are just four miles from Reagan National Airport and 33 miles from both Dulles and Baltimore- Washington international airports. At the marina close to the hotel, guests can find restaurants, river cruises and an open-air fish market packed with steamed Chesapeake Bay crabs and fresh clam chowder.

The Loews features a bold, modernist exterior, with a simple, yet elegant lobby area. The lobby hums with business travelers banging on laptops, leisure travelers scurrying to hail taxis and the rest relaxing over cups of the omnipresent Starbucks coffee. Later, they make bee lines for the hotel's American Sea Grill, which reviewers have hailed as one of the city's best restaurants, for seafood and Pacific Rim cuisine in a contemporary brasserie-style setting. The restaurant features special deals for children. Guests also can nosh lunch and dinner at the hotel's Old Dominion Brewing Company, and sample brews from its namesake company in Virginia. In addition, guests at the Loews can work out in the fitness center and go up to the 12th-floor courtyard to swim in an indoor/outdoor pool.

The Loews L'Enfant's 370 guestrooms include striped fabrics, plenty of sage-green and salmon tones, all highlighted by large windows offering panoramic views of the Washington skyline, the Potomac River or marina. The rooms also include refrigerators, minibars and large French writing desks.

The Loews L'Enfant Plaza is definitely a fav for leisure travelers from throughout the world and corporate types in Washington to do business and glad- hand lawmakers. The Loews remains popular for its accommodations and location close to all the sights synonymous with D.C.