What's Better : Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner or Pentagon City?
 

Hi! Im looking into either the Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner, or Pentagon City. Any ideas which ones better? Im traveling with a 12 year old daughter. We want a fancy, nice, hotel, with relatively large rooms, hofefully a nice pool, and a mall close by. What Ritz is better? Thank You!!!

Do you plan on going into DC, or are you going to just go to the hotel, pool, and shopping. If you aren't planning on wandering into the city, then Tyson's Corner should be fine. If you do want to go to the city, either Pentagon City or the Ritz in the West End would be fine.

The Ritz at Tyson's opens up to one of the malls at Tyson's corner shopping center; your daughter may like that. Tyson's Corner, however is NOT close to a metro stop, so if you're thinking about using the metro for transportation this would not be a good choice. There is a 2nd mall (across a major highway) at Tysons - the better of the 2 malls located there. The Ritz may offer a shuttle to the 2nd mall. Other than the mall, there is nothing walkable from this Ritz - you're in the middle of corporate buildings. The pentagon location is near to a metro stop and you could travel anywhere in the D.C. area. There is also a mall nearby.

She wants a mall close by, so the Ritz West End in D.C. won't fit, no mall there.
Ingrid: I posted on your original question two days ago. The difference in the two Ritz are: 1) The Ritz Pentagon City is attached to Pentagon City Mall. Pentagon City mall has Nordstroms and other upscale stores. It is not a huge mall, but it is very nice, and it has an added on area next to the mall called Pentagon row w/even more shops, and you would be close (just across the 14th st. bridge) to DC if you want to jaunt in for a night ride around the monuments in a taxi which migh tbe really fun for you both, or to go to dinner in D.C. Ritz at Tysons Corner is not attached to the mall, it is a block from Tysons Two and two blocks from the larger Tysons Corner Mall. Recall that the info you were given on your earlier post was that it depends on what you want- do you want to be closer to D.C. to have the option to go into D.C., or do you want the bigger mall further into Northern Virginia where it would be a big trek to get into D.C. in a taxi (no metro out there, in contrast to the Pentagon City Ritz which has a metro stop at Pentagon City).
I do not know that there is any difference in the two Ritz hotels per se. Both get upscale business and tourist business.

dolciani: thanks for that info, I didn't realize that the Tysons Ritz opens up onto Tysons Two. I thought it was a walk away from that shopping area also. Sorry for that misinformation.