Michigan members of congress and travel reps visit Washington D.C.’s Dupont Circle Hotel

Michigan Tourism officers and “Michigan’s Huge Present” hit the WJIM AM 1240 radio airwaves lately in Washington D.C. After a continuous American Airways flight from Lansing’s Capital Area Worldwide Airport to Reagan Airport, I welcomed members of congress to the reside, syndicated radio broadcasts I hosted from the numerous and swank Dupont Circle Lodge.

“What a possibility to fly straight from Michigan’s capital to the Nation’s capital continuous,” stated Nicole Noll Williams, President and CEO of the Capital Area Airport Authority, who frequents D.C. for enterprise and lately labored for U.S. Senator Gary Peters.

Getting into the Dupont Circle Lodge looks like being welcomed into an upscale membership – a trendy however comfy one at which you might be a very powerful member. Soothing shades, colours, a hearth and paintings embellish the hushed foyer. The quiet corners in Doyle, the resort’s “Madmen-style,” darkish, deco, dream bar present a contrasting expertise to the flower-filled, vivid brasserie The Pembroke. For me, breakfast on The Pembroke’s marble tables meant Crab Chesapeake Benedict with a glass of prosecco and panes offering a panoramic view of Dupont Circle.

Misty Belles, International Public Relations Director for the Virtuoso luxurious journey community, joined me with a toast.

“This can be a beautiful resort in a vibrant a part of D.C. You get a robust sense of neighborhood round right here and you might be additionally near the entire sights you need to see in D.C.,” stated Belles, together with the White Home. Irish Prime Minister, the Taoiseach Micheal Martin, throughout his St. Patrick’s Day go to to U.S. President Joe Biden, stayed on the Irish owned-Dupont Circle Lodge – a part of the Doyle Assortment. “The Irish welcome you into their lodges as if it have been their houses. You actually really feel that right here – it’s very heat.”

I took Belles’ recommendation to stroll as a lot of D.C. as I might and strolled from the resort to go to Eire’s Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Mulhall at his close by embassy residence. The resort’s managing director Joel Freyberg, who displays delicate, attentive diplomacy for all his friends, organized the assembly.

“When any of our Irish ministers come to Washington, we put them up on the Dupont Circle Lodge,” the Ambassador informed me. “When the Irish say ‘welcome,’ we are saying ‘one-hundred-thousand welcomes.’”

Ambassador Mulhall informed me U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee deliberate to welcome him to Michigan this summer time. That was music to the ears of Michigan’s chief journey promoter Dave Lorenz, vice-president of Journey Michigan, who was in D.C. with Whitney Waara, COO of Traverse Metropolis Tourism, and Mackinac Island Tourism CEO Tim Hygh.

“We’re going to be visiting members of the Michigan Congressional delegation of their workplaces speaking about points necessary to the journey trade. We advocate for insurance policies that can enable our trade to develop and prosper. We’re right here to coach and inform,” stated Lorenz through the broadcast along with his colleagues from my eighth-floor Dupont Circle Lodge Suite. Waara seemed out the panoramic nook home windows.

“It’s a terrific view – a stunning spot with nice buzz,” stated Waara, who used to reside in D.C.

One other Michigander, Liz Ware, VP of Gross sales and Advertising and marketing and proprietor for Mackinac Island’s Mission Level Resort, labored in Dupont Circle for greater than a decade. “I might inform myself to take a psychological image to ingrain the majesty of D.C. in my head,” she stated. “Washington D.C. and Mackinac Island each have attention-grabbing characters.”

U.S. Tim Wahlberg, upon arriving, admired the comfy Dupont Circle Lodge suite. He spends his nights: on an air mattress in his Capital Constructing workplace! He showers in the home gymnasium and eats breakfast at his desk. “Members of Congress are solely in Washington 9 nights a month and I can inform my constituents I’m within the workplace 24/7,” stated the Republican from the Lansing and Jackson space. “Amway provides us with vitality drinks and my favourite cereal is Kellogg Frosted Flakes. Tony the Tiger makes me smile.”

U.S. Reps. John Moolenaar and Fred Upton additionally visited the resort for reside interviews, which meant on-site producer, Lansing lobbyist Tim McGuire, who steadily works in D.C., stored the in-room espresso machine percolating through the industrial breaks!

Contact Michael Patrick Shiels atMShiels@aol.com His radio program could also be discovered at MiBigShow.com or weekday mornings from 9-noon on WJIM AM 1240