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Alexandria VA Storm: Turning Lemons into Freshly Squeezed Lemonade

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Real Estate Agent with Long and Foster REALTORS (703) 470-4545 0225085927

Last night, a pretty powerful storm rolled through the DC area, downing trees and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of folks, as well as to businesses and traffic signals.  While it brought a little bit of much needed relief humidity-wise, the loss of power (and air conditioning) inconvenienced a number of people, many of whom sought shelter in local area hotels. hotel room

In Alexandria, the three Kimpton hotels (which still had power), Lorien Hotel & Spa, Hotel Monaco and Morrison House, did not hesitate to reach out to the community and offer a special "power outage" rate of just $99 at each of these three wonderful properties. 

Anyone who has had the pleasure of staying at one of these properties knows just what a great deal that was!  Had our power not returned when it did, we would have loaded up the dog and checked into the Hotel Monaco, I can assure you!  They are not only pet-friendly, they are immediately adjacent to my Long & Foster Old Town Alexandria Historic office, which would have been very convenient.

If you are looking for nice accommodations in the Old Town Alexandria area while here on your Alexandria, VA house hunting trip, you may want to check out any of these three hotels...4-star Morrison House, which has been on Conde Nast Traveler's GOLD LIST for the past five years;  Lorien Hotel and Spa, a modern boutique hotel and spa conveniently located near all King Street has to offer or Hotel Monaco, a dog-friendly luxury boutique hotel located in the heart of Old Town Alexandria.

After all, after a long day of looking for houses, don't you deserve to put your feet up and enjoy a bit of pampering and comfortable accommodations? 

Kudos to these Kimpton hotels for helping locals turn a lemon of a situation into fresh squeezed lemonade...something which, by the way, the Hotel Monaco serves in their richly stylish lobby on these hot summer afternoons. 

Old Town Alexandria VA KIMPTON HOTELS

Comments (4)

Brian Block
RE/MAX Allegiance, Managing Broker/Branch Vice President - McLean, VA
Northern Virginia & D.C. Real Estate

Susan,

That was some storm!  We were sitting at our condo pool here in Alexandria, when almost without warning, dust and leaves started flying, and everyone hustled to gather their stuff and get inside.  The A/C in our building was out for a couple of hours.  No matter, because as soon as the storm quickly passed, we went for an evening stroll in the now-20 degree cooler outdoors!

Jul 26, 2010 09:32 AM
Susan Haughton
Long and Foster REALTORS (703) 470-4545 - Alexandria, VA
Susan & Mindy Team...Honesty. Integrity. Results.

Brian:  It was wonderful afterward!  All our neighbors came out and mingled...it ended up being quite a nice night, after all.  ;-)  We were out of power for almost 5 hours, but we survived. 

Jul 26, 2010 09:57 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

My husband's office had their Christmas party at Hotel Monaco a few years back.  It was a really neat place. 

Jul 27, 2010 04:51 AM
Susan Haughton
Long and Foster REALTORS (703) 470-4545 - Alexandria, VA
Susan & Mindy Team...Honesty. Integrity. Results.

Since my parking space is in the garage of Hotel Monaco, I have to walk through the lobby every time I go to the office, so I have sort of come to think of it as my "home away from home."   Nice place for a party!!! 

Jul 27, 2010 04:56 AM