Kimpton Carlyle Hotel Dupont Circle

Hotel is outdated, the room has that old building smell but it’s clean

Great location. Clean rooms

The best things about this hotel are its location, near both DuPont and the U Street area, and its excellent restaurant. Unfortunately we found the room to smell like mildew (they are supposedly renovating) and it took three rooms to find one that was tolerable. I was also overcharged, pointed this out at checkout, got some credit but there’s still a gap of more than $100. It’s been a few days and I still can’t get anyone from accounting to call me back. Finally I recall as I’m writing this review that I was supposed to get a free bottle of wine as a silver member—didn’t happen. I have been a huge Kimpton fan for 10+ years. This was so disappointing.

Great welcome and front desk.

it is a nice boutique hotel but there are a few things to be aware of. 1. it's not affordable; even if you get a 'deal' on the usual sites, they will charge you 28$ a day for amenities even if you don't use them and $48 a day for valet parking; that's on top of 89$ in general bullcrap fees. our 350$ 'good deal' turned into about 800$ stay. 2. it's not family friendly no matter what the website says; providing a crib does not make you family friendly-there is suggestive art on the walls, the neighborhood does not have a lot of children and the hotel restaurant does not provide a children's menu. also for those families who care, there are a lot of rainbow flags in the neighborhood. also, no coffee machine in the room. on the plus side, the staff was friendly and placed us in a great room above the kitchen and the room seemed very soundproof. the food in the restaurant was great but expensive.