Mount Washington Conference Center

BE CAREFUL! This hotel has 2 different Unilocal sites. Wrote a review for the original Unilocal site they had and noticed that they just started this one to run away from their bad reviews. (Which didn’t make a difference since they still achieved a 2 and ½ stars) Here was my original review:
Booked my reservation and a week later called to cancel. Asked the lady I was speaking to if I could get the cancellation number. Was told that my confirmation number is the same as the cancellation number. Weeks later I find that I was charged for a night stay on my credit card. Called the manager and was told it was «my word against theirs». I did get a courtesy refund however, after being lectured on the «proper» way of canceling a reservation. So just a bit of advice, assume that you are dealing with people who do not know how to do their job. Always question every answer they give you and ALWAYS ask for the name of the person who was helping you.
Good luck.

Not a bad hotel for the price. Stayed here for 2 days for Moonrise festival. It was kind of hard to find the place though, even food delivery guys were confused and most rejected our orders. Staff are nice and the place looks pretty fancy.

Very very poor service. TV remote not working. front desk wanted me to leave room and come down to front desk (for what I am not sure). Refused to fix problem. Won’t be staying here again.

The room is ok but took forever to check in and is tough to find. Still bring renovated so no services or even vending machines. It’s quiet though so all depends on what you need and want.

Recently adopted by Johns Hopkins, this is a conference center that has a bit of history as part of the grounds of an old Woman’s college that ended in the civil war; one of the original «octagon» buildings remains. Very convenient that this is right adjacent to the Mt. Washington light rail stop, directly from the airport. However, good luck finding the entrance if you are on foot! There are 3 possible ways up: 1) take the trail behind the ceramics parking lot with the bridge with a sign marked NO TRESPASSING; 2) Walk up the driveway without a sidewalk and risk getting run over or 3) walk even further past the driveway and go up a steep sidewalk that doubles back to the stated trail #1: this one is UNMARKED. The hotel rooms feel like old dorm rooms with a little lipstick: the toilets are low with very difficult handles to flush, the sink handles are very hard to turn, the amenities are basic and the closet is dusty, but there is free WIFI. The center is in a lush green area with surrounding trees that make you feel like you are in the mountains, and some of the dining rooms have a quaint old feel. Meeting rooms were decent, not highly technologically upgraded but they did have power strips for computers so you could stay connected while you are learning.

The room was perfectly fine: what I would expect given the rate, although the bed was a bit small. No complaints regarding the room. Nice balcony.
The service at the front desk was pretty bad though. Very disorganized. We had to wait forty minutes to check in, because the front desk clerk was dealing with four irate people in front of us. At first I felt quite sympathetic toward the desk clerk, but then my patience began to wear thin. Two people ahead of us were supposed to have rooms, but they weren’t ready yet, so they were hanging around with their bags in the lobby, grumbling. One man was completely berserk because they had no room available for him and his family even though they made a reservation two weeks ago. They sent him to another hotel located over 20 minutes away, but the process was extremely disorganized and took forever. We were at the hotel for a wedding, and we ran into some other wedding guests who told us that they had problems with their reservations as well (the hotel thought they were checking out a day earlier than they were, and their room key stopped working and needed to be reactivated). We were so happy to just get our room without any issue besides waiting 40 minutes for service.

Stayed at the Mt Washington Conference Center Hotel for a night while in the area for meeting.
When I arrived, I was greeted warmly and was checked in quickly. Things went down hill from there.
Went up to my room and was greeted at the door by a guy who was already staying in that room. Headed back down to the lobby to advise them of the error. Once I get to the lobby there is no one manning the desk. I ring the bell, nothing. so I take a seat and wait. 25 minutes later the clerk finally walks off the elevator. I explain the situation to her and she assigns me another room.
I head up to that room and the key card doesn’t work. Back to the elevator and down to the lobby. The clerk reprograms the key card and I head back up to my second room. Open the door and walk into a room that isn’t ready to be occupied. The beds are both stripped, no towels in the bathroom, etc. Turn around and head back down to the lobby. Again, no one at the desk. After another 10 or so minutes the night clerk comes in. I explain the situation to him and he assigns me to a third room.
I head up to that room and finally have one I can actually stay in.
Take out the confusion with the rooms and it’s probably a 3 star rating.
Jerk me around for an hour when all I want to do is go to sleep after a 3 hour drive down and it costs you 2 stars.
On the bright side my company no longer uses Hotwire to book hotels.

This is a really quiet, calm location — hard to believe you only about 8 miles north of downtown Baltimore. Mount Washington is a nice little village. It’s a bit of a hike down steep (and unlit) stairs down to the village from the hotel, but worth a walk around.
The hotel itself is 80s era and has not been renovated in a very long time. Public areas are clean, but just old. The room itself had decent bedding but was again, just really old. Laminate everything, including bathroom counters. Grimey tile floor in the bathroom.
No services available in the hotel — no dining at all. It mentioned free breakfast somewhere but I sure didn’t see it and it wasn’t mentioned by the staff. There are dining options down in the village, but not a ton of choices.
Thanks for the flat panel LCD tv — could we actually get some HD signal to go with that? Broadcast channels (ABC, Fox, etc) didn’t work at all the first night, then I was able to get NBC the next 2 nights — but that was it.
Booked this on Hotwire as a 3.5 star hotel. Ridiculous. More like a 2.5 hotel — and that’s giving credit largely for the location. The 3 star hotel in the same Hotwire zone (University) is a much nicer property in a (busier but) better location for less $.
Won’t try this one again.

Not a standard hotel, probably only has about 40 rooms, so you can’t expect the same thing as you would in a traditional hotel. However, the staff here was amazingly helpful. The room was clean, the grounds are gorgeous & it’s a quick walk to the Mt. Washington village, which is an artsy-​local flavor neighborhood.
If you need all of the amenities of a hotel (room service, concierge, etc), skip this. But if you want a nice hotel with a friendly staff, this place is perfect.
OH…and free wifi in the rooms!