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A series of posts relating to our holiday to Washington DC in Nov 2025 during the US Federal Government shutdown
By Nige
on November 11, 2025
at 8:03 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
Photos from Day 3 where we suffered from a bracing wind, visited the International Spy Museum, The Wharf DC and The Cheesecake Factory (again).
By Nige
on November 11, 2025
at 6:05 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
From the Spy Museum, we walked south towards The Wharf, DC, which is an area primarily hosting restaurants.
By Nige
on November 11, 2025
at 12:25 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
On the basis that the International Spy Museum was one of the few attractions actually open during the Government shutdown, we expected it be popular.
By Nige
on November 11, 2025
at 8:33 am
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
We hung on until just after 8pm last night, so a small improvement on our first evening in DC. I can't say that my hour of waking moved on much if at all, but the Vickster did significantly better than I did.
By Nige
on November 10, 2025
at 8:03 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
Photos from Day 2 including multiple visits to Starbucks, a failed visit to the Washington Monument and some good food.
By Nige
on November 10, 2025
at 6:32 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
After the disappointment of the Washington Monument, but the warming outcome of another visit to Starbucks, we headed back to the hotel to consider our options.
By Nige
on November 10, 2025
at 12:29 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
We were looking forward to our trip up the Washington Monument. We had booked our tickets 30 days ahead and secured a visit at 10am.
By Nige
on November 10, 2025
at 8:59 am
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | USA | Washington DC
We turned the light off at around 7:30pm last night. Vick has conked out laying on the bed, and I was feeling fairly tired too, having had to focus hard to scoffing down my lemon raspberry cheesecake whilst watching an old episode of Law & Order SVU.
By Nige
on November 9, 2025
at 10:03 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: British Airways | Hilton | Holidays | IAD | LHR | London | USA | Washington
Photos from Day 1 when we drove to Heathrow, flew with BA to Washington DC and enjoyed some good food at The Cheesecake Factory.
By Nige
on November 9, 2025
at 8:02 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday Washington DC in Nov 2025
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Holidays | IAD | USA | Washington
After leaving the aircraft, we walked about 50 yards down the corridor of the satellite terminal building into the Mobile Lounge.
