The Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va., stands adjacent to Reagan National Airport, directly accessible off Interstate 395 and close to the Pentagon and government buildings in downtown Washington. This contemporary hotel offers a free shuttle to airport and the Metro train station, just three stops from the popular Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall. The city's government buildings, museums, monuments and other sights are less than eight miles from this Hyatt Regency.

This Washington hotel features a fitness center and outdoor pool and jet spa surrounded by a sundeck. Concierges can arrange for spa services at health clubs close to the hotel and preferred tee times at golf courses. Dinners of fine American cuisine and Chesapeake Bay crab cakes come with romantic and spectacular nighttime views from the 18th-floor Chesapeake Grill overlooking the Washington Monument, National Cathedral and airport runways. For more casual dining, Cinnabar dishes up breakfasts and lunches, while guests can kick back on the Lobbibar, sipping signature cocktails, noshing gourmet pizza and smoking stogies. The Hyatt also features a staffed business center, 25 meeting rooms and a 17,000-square-foot exhibit hall.

The Washington hotel features 685 rooms with coral and blue decor, colorful prints, adjustable swivel chairs, work desks, multiple phone extensions, and views of the airport, Potomac or monuments. Guestrooms on the 15th-18th floors offer high-speed Internet access.

Crowds at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City are usually travelers with business at the Pentagon or corporate offices, and vacationers with sightseeing on their minds scurrying to catch the complimentary shuttles to the Metro station and downtown Washington.