The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel is the best Marriott hotel that I was ever accommodated.. I had experienced one in Vancouver (Canada). This served as a venue for the SWS Int'l conference and is superb and we also had rooms in the hotel itself. I remembered I presented a paper here and when I took my early lunch, I had to walk in the hotel's great garden to the sidewalk and passed by a burger restaurant to a commercial building and at its end the oriental restaurant. Best fried rice ever (incomparable until now) but they opened late. I think I also saw the honorable wife of a former President of the USA in her campaign statement right at Wardman gardens with her supporters. It was indeed splendid days for me at D.C.