What is the best and safest way into D.C and what are the safest and best surrounding hotel options?

You'd do best to get a hotel outside the city and park your car at one of the outlying metro stations for your day of sight seeing. You'll get a much better deal on the room and you can avoid driving a car into the city to try to park. Plus any hotel in the city and close in in VA is going to charge you $25 or so to park in their garage.

NW DC is always the safest, and the other parts are not. If you are willing to drive about 10 to 30 minutes to DC, then you could always stay in Arlington. It's a little bit cheaper there and it is pretty convenient. I always take the metro, since it is convenient. Once you get to DC, most of the attractions are close together.

oh nice I once visited Poughkeepsie, NY once Anyway there are plenty of transportations available in D.C, Also there are many hotels, such as double tree hotel and hhilton, you can go for hotels like around Dupont circle

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