# What's The Watergate Hotel Like

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 27, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-watergate-hotel-like/530657 "2010-02-27T17:08:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-watergate-hotel-like/530657/1 "2010-02-27T17:08:11Z")

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I have never been there. Has anyone here stayed in the [Watergate Hotel and Complex](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_Hotel)? Both now or in the early 70s when it became famous. What were your impressions of it?

What level of hotel was it? Was it upscale like the Ritz or Four Season or more mid level? Just would like to hear impressions of the hotel, both as it is now and as it was then in the early 70s

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-watergate-hotel-like/530657/2 "2010-02-27T22:00:17Z")

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As of now, I think it’s closed. It bounced around different owners and management companies in recent years, and it was supposed to start a renovation a couple of years ago. Financing fell through when the economy tanked, and I think a bank now owns it.

I never stayed there and don’t know about the rooms, but the restaurant (Jean-Louis) was top-of-the-line in its heyday.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-watergate-hotel-like/530657/3 "2010-02-27T23:27:27Z")

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It was a top of the line Four Seasons Hotel, from what I understood.