Do you want to rent a car?

Several people have raised the issue of renting a car for the week during the wedding. If you know you have a parking option, feel free to get yourself a car. If you think you might have a spot or think you may be able to find one, you are likely going to find yourself more frequently frustrated than not. The Dupont neighborhood, where the Carlyle Suites is located, is an area where the street parking is always at an absolute premium. For that reason, the closest parking spots you should expect to find will be an average of 2-4 blocks away. I will say we have literally never taken our car down there - parking is that scarce.

Also, I know the Carlyle Suites website mentions having parking. They have about 5 spots for the entire hotel and we have one of them reserved already. Subtraction is easy so you know there are only 4 left. For the entire hotel. They do not offer a valet option so you are back to square one if you don't happen to be one of the lucky parkers.

On the positive side, the hotel is quite close to some very good bus lines and, as mentioned, the Dupont Circle metro station (on the Red line). Bus rides are $1.35 and Metro rides are about the same, though they can be more, depending on your destination. For more information about both, please read up on www.wmata.com. Your bus lines are the S1, S2, S4 (16th Street line), 42 (the best bus ever), L1, L2, and L4 (Connecticut Ave Line). I promise, normal people ride the buses.

If you have questions, shoot us an email and we can talk through how to get where you want to go -

Misty and Cory