Staying outside DC
 

HI,
I am driving down from CT to Washington D.C.and am trying to find a city north of DC that I can stay in and still get into the city by train pretty easily. We will likely be going down I-95. Any suggestions of cities or even better, specific hotels would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Bethesda or Silver Spring might suit your needs.

Stay in Arlington and take the Metro BUT it all depends on where IN the District you have to be. You could stay a ways out and still take the Metro as opposed to a MARC or VRE train. But a lot depends on WHERE IN the District you are trying to end up.

Now, you said "take the train in." Why do you want to stay that far out? Cost? Traffic? Give us more info.

The Courtyard in Silver Spring is pretty close to Silver Spring Station and it's 30-35 mins into DC on the red line. The Hampton Inn is also nice and almost as close to the station.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you looking to avoid high lodging prices in the city or is it more that you just want to stay out of the traffic zone?

Check out Green Belt MD (end of the green line).

There is quite a bit of scheduled maintenance work on metro. Here is a schedule with lines and affected stations to consider in your planning.

http://www.wmata.com/rail/trackwork.cfm

Hey, there coryroc80! People are trying to help you and you are blowing them off!

Alexandria, Va . its a real short ride on the metro, and a nice place to visit as well.

It doesn't make any sense to stay in Virginia when you are coming down I95 from CT and want a place to the north of DC. There would be no purpose to it and it would add a lot of unnecessary time both ways.

It depends what you mean by "train". If you want to be near the MARC commuter rail line (eg, Camden line), Greenbelt or Laurel would work. If you want to be near Amtrak, but I can't imagine why a tourist would, you'd have to be in Baltimore or Riverdale (not a place I'd recommend), I guess. If you really want to be near the metro line, I agree with kja more, Silver Spring would be more convenient than Bethesda from I95, or again Greenbelt.

I think this is coryroc's first post and I wonder if he knows how to find this post now that's its been a few days...