Hampton by Hilton Hotels in Arlington

This hotel is a good choice for families visiting the DC area, especially when flying into DCA. Crystal City Metro is an easy two block walk and takes about 5 minutes. Safe area, we walked from the metro back to hotel as late as 11:15pm and no issues. We used the free hotel shuttle from/to the airport (had a bit of a wait for p/u from airport ~30 minutes but only about 10 minutes on return trip to airport). Rooms look to be fairly recently updated with refill dispensers of hand soap, lotion, shampoo, conditioner and body wash, plus nightlights. Sinks do have odd placement of faucet in the top right corner. Several hooks for hanging items between bathroom and room. We used Amazon Fresh to have some basic snacks/drinks delivered and that worked well as there is an Amazon Fresh store about 4-5 blocks away. Hotel was sold out while there but quiet- we never heard neighbors and street noise and airport noise were not an issue, we were on the 8th floor though. Quick elevators. Breakfast area was large and busy every morning and we visited at varying times but the workers kept everything replenished and clean. Standard free breakfast of powdered eggs, (one morning was cheese omelets), sausage, gravy &biscuits, waffles, oatmeal, cereals and yogurt. Several quick service food options just about 3 block walk (Chick fil a, Chipotle and Sweetgreens among others). I had reserved guaranteed connecting rooms online thru Hilton and called the hotel to confirm that guarantee weeks before arrival. The morning of arrival the Hilton app would not allow me to choose connecting rooms. Upon calling the hotel for help I spoke with Marcia and she was thankfully able to resolve the problem and place us in the connected rooms even though the hotel was fully booked. I appreciate that Hilton’s website allows the option to select guaranteed connecting rooms but would suggest they improve that process to avoid inconveniencing travelers on vacation. Would stay again and recommend this hotel to others.