Bethesda Marriott

No hot water for shower or shave. For a $300 room, I found this unbelievable.

One of our best overnights ever!

This place is what you expect, as a minimum from a Marriott hotel. Decent restaurant and bar on premises. Decent work out area. Within a hundred yards or so from the White Flint Metro stop on the red line. It’s about a 30-40 minute ride to the Smithsonian.

No hot water. Read a post here and in February same issue. I have two weeks booked in April, I will cancel and stay somewhere else. Plus, I had to wait 2.5 hours to check in. Don't stay here. If they have hot water issues since February and this is mid March this is a major problem. Over $300 per night!!! Never stay here again.

Excellent service

Hotel staff was amazing but the staff in the bar/ restaurant not so much

We spent 1 night at the Bethesda Marriott in Bethesda, MD this week. We traveled to Bethesda this week both for work and to attend the Marriott Bonvoy 5th Anniversary Celebration at Marriott HQ. I found a low, 29,000 point redemption for a King room which was all we needed for a single night, and the hotel was only 5 minutes from Marriott Downtown HQ where the event was being held and where we would spend the next 2 nights. This was our first visit to this hotel. We chose it over the Courtyard Bethesda that was 23,000 points for the same night, for the full service restaurant, M Club as well as the 4.3 rating on the Marriott website. We would be arriving late, at 7pm, as the location is about a 6 hour drive from our location. Arriving at the hotel it looks like many other Marriott hotels. While I don’t have any lobby photos, it is a large lobby that has reception, a good sized restaurant, M Club, the fitness center, as well as hallways to other buildings, rooms and meeting spaces. This is a large hotel that has an airport hotel feel to it. Aside from a high floor, I would say that we received the room I booked – no real upgrade to speak of for this stay. We were only booked for this 1 night stay that was very close to the event. It also gave my wife all day Thursday to relax at the property and get ready for the evenings event at Marriott HQ. Our room was modern Marriott, having been upgraded sometime before 2020 with current style room furnishings, solid surface fake wood floors (I like these a LOT over full carpet), a nice 2nd desk/table that would be useful from the couch, a safe, slightly noisy fridge and an updated bathroom. While the shower was new, the rest of the bathroom felt like it was where the hotel decided to save some money and repurpose the old flooring, sink, counter, toilet and dropped ceiling with newer ceiling tiles in this small bathroom. After getting settled in the room, we headed down for dinner at Coopers Mills – the hotels Farm to Table restaurant. The menu had a good selection of options – enough options that anyone dining should be able to find 1 or 2 options on the menu. This is a plus as we do find many hotel restaurants that don’t have a varied enough menu for everyone in the party – even when it’s just us as a party of two that are not seafood eaters. We had some questions about the menu, and the spiciness of the Moco Saltado that my wife eventually ordered. Our server was fantastic – checking with the kitchen about the meal, tasting the sauce and even offering to bring a small sample. We started with Korean Short Rib Sliders and a couple of specialty drinks from the menu. The sliders and drinks were a great start to our dinner. Unfortunately the actual meals left a lot to be desired. I don’t know if it was a bad night, getting late in the kitchen (it was open 2 hours after we ordered) or I who knows what – our meals didn’t look like or taste like something that’s “farm to table” – it was more Sodexo to reheat