It’s leaf-peep season within the northeast and whereas the norm could also be to journey north to see the season’s most colourful plumage, Washington D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood is host to an autumnal expertise not like others and is definite to have you ever touring southbound this fall.

With its townhouse-lined streets, haute delicacies, luxurious retailers, charming canal and prime riverside location bordered by cliffs and luxurious woods, Georgetown has an elevated quaintness which could possibly be extra related to a chic European village than the nation’s capital.

Sitting bankside amidst all of it on Georgetown’s well-known C & O Canal is the unique 55-room enclave, the Rosewood Washington, D.C. This resort–apart from being residence to a rooftop restaurant with sweeping views of the capital metropolis, Wolfgang Puck’s Minimize restaurant, and an opulent library for resort visitors to entertain buddies–provides probably the most genuine experiences within the metropolis’s hospitality scene: a keep in a Georgetown townhouse.

To expertise Washington D.C. as if one in every of its most notable inhabitants, The Rosewood provides standalone townhomes adjoining to the primary resort property with separate entrances, designer particulars, personal gardens, and stage after stage of dwelling house and facilities, all with the white glove hospitality for which a 5-star property akin to The Rosewood is thought.

Townhomes in Georgetown have come to suggest the perfect Washingtonian life. Town’s gamers have lengthy opted for these kind of abodes within the iconic D.C. neighborhood. For instance, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd lives in the home the place President John F. Kennedy resided as a senator. This kind of historic native lore makes the Rosewood townhouse expertise one in every of true Washingtonian glamour.

Except for an iconic D.C. expertise, the townhomes are thoughtfully designed to supply the comforts of residence whereas additionally ensconcing visitors in resort service. They’re outfitted with full kitchens, washers and dryers, two full loos and even a small examine for doing work ought to it come up.

Friends enter the townhouse into a stupendous entryway which opens to a large dwelling space replete with a working gasoline fire, a completely stocked bar cart, and a powerful Bang & Olufsen bluetooth speaker. A brief flight of stairs up result in the townhouse’s subsequent stage the place the well-appointed kitchen–whereas compact–is designed for cooking and congregation by way of a sensible use of house which features a nook banquette set round a round desk which comfortably seats 4. It’s additionally on this stage the place visitors have entry to their very own personal out of doors house perfect for contemporary air or leisure.

On the subsequent stage is the mini alcove-study which sits on a touchdown between the bed room and toilet, a well-thought out use of house which not solely provides aesthetic depth and a vital workspace, but in addition provides the added practicality as a spot to drop private gadgets with none of it being in the best way.

Whereas the bed room is plush, serene and welcoming, the grasp toilet is the crown jewel of this stage. In a play of understated magnificence, the grasp toilet is outfitted with each element for a pampering expertise. The bathroom is a completely automated Toto, the standalone soaking tub is extra-deep, the hair dryer is Dyson, and the toiletries are Dyptique. Even the bathtub salts are by the heritage Parisian perfume home.

What really makes the Rosewood Washington, D.C. townhouses the standout residences they’re is the subtlety with which DC-based inside designer, Thomas Pheasant, executed each’s interiors with an elevated sense of style which interprets past the fabric–the designer was in a position to imbue soul into the townhome’s id. Pheasant succeeds at this by creating an area which anticipates all of the wants and cues of a private residence, a process which deserves to be lauded as home-like eventualities in lodges require layers of particulars which generally appears antithetical to the transient nature of resort room design. Nonetheless, Pheasant consists of such particulars akin to tchotchke-style ornamental items and containers, well-chosen paintings depicting D.C. scenes through huge black and white images, tomes of artwork and structure, stocked bookshelves, and even little issues akin to a small facet console within the kitchen to carry the home telephone, notepad, contemporary flowers, and even a couple of books–a considerate addition pointless in a resort setting, nonetheless could be de rigueur in a non-public residence.

Every of the townhouses measure between 1,000-1,200 sq. ft and whereas they’re separate from the primary resort, visitors staying in these residences take pleasure in all of the facilities and companies the resort provides. From room service to lounging subsequent to the rooftop indoor-outdoor infinitely pool (which is heated all 12 months spherical) to in-room massages, a townhouse keep supplies all of the comforts and privateness of residence besides with the beneficiant hospitality of the Rosewood workers obtainable at each flip.

With the entire particulars and design, it might be tough to extract one’s self from the Rosewood Washington, D.C.’s townhouse expertise, nonetheless, the entire magic of Georgetown sits simply on its doorstep as does entry to the world’s distinctive autumnal leaf-peep expertise. Located proper on the financial institution of the canal on thirty first road between the primary strip of M Road and the well-known Georgetown Harbor, the Rosewood’s visitors are spoilt for alternative on this location. Exterior the door to the resort is to entry the famed C & O towpath, a path which runs beside the picturesque, tree-lined canal for 18.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland. There’s additionally entry to a number of wooded mountaineering trails only some blocks from the Rosewood which run alongside the Potomac River such because the Capitol Crescent and Potomac Heritage (NST Part) trails, whereas the Custis path crosses the river into Virginia. Though, if driving is the specified mode for leaf-peeping, then the George Washington Parkway throughout Georgetown’s Key Bridge provides approach to a lush, tree-lined driving expertise alongside the Potomac River with breathtaking fall foliage as effectively prime Washington D.C. views.