The Holiday Inn in Alexandria on Eisenhower must have gone out of business. This is the one that you could see when driving on the beltway. All the signs have been taken down with no replacements. I'm a fairly old guy and this hotel was there as long as I can remember - like forever and ever. Anyone have special memories of that place? I've never been in it but you couldn't miss it when driving by on the beltway. Here are some images I found on the net.
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Damn, Another Icon from this area gone. I don't have any special stories of the place other than renting a room one night after getting hammered in old town at the fish market, when it was about 5 bars connected together.
This area was the best in the 80's and 90's.

Just because the signage is coming off doesn't mean the property is closing. The hotel may be getting re-flagged/re-branded with another name.

Queue "Holiday Inn - Eisenhower Avenue" is closing hyperlink in 3...2...1...

It's being demoed and a new hotel being built in it's place. It currently has 200 rooms, after 659 rooms and 50,000 sqft conference center. No word on new owner.

So many hookers, so little time.

Is that the Holiday Inn that advertised in the Post for a seafood buffet on the weekends?
I heard the buffet wasn't very good, but then not many are

DH Wrote:
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> Is that the Holiday Inn that advertised in the
> Post for a seafood buffet on the weekends?
> I heard the buffet wasn't very good, but then not
> many are


All you can drink Mimosa's made up for the average buffet. Great place to cure the hangover after getting lit up in old towne back in the day..

Many fond memories with the gals over the years. Probably dropped a dime over the years tapping those asses!

Priapus Wrote:
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> So many hookers, so little time.


? At the Holiday Inn?

No stories. I grew up a couple of miles from that hotel up Rt. 1, so I never had any reason to stay there. I know I went to the restaurant in the place once or twice, but I don't recall any distinguishing features or events.

Until that section of Eisenhower Valley built up, the hotel sat more or less by itself off the beltway for years. And it had that ridiculous sign advertising "Washington's Only Skyscraper", which didn't refer to the hotel but some building the developer, Dutch Hoffman, wanted to build. Even as kids we laughed about the "idiot who built that place all by itself on Telegraph".

The guy must have been a real visionary though, or really lucky, because I think he bought the land before the Army Corp of Engineers put the flood controls on Cameron Run and definitely before the Yellow Line had a Metro stop there.

Here's one thing the OP might find interesting. The developer, Hubert Hoffman, has his eternal resting place on the property. The local color guy for the Washington Post did a story on it in 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/26/AR2006082600610.html

bnEEx Wrote:
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Classy...

Bitch hit me up side the head wiff her shoe! Manayer had to shut the joint down.

The building is high middle class apartments now.