Washington...we have arrived.

When we travel, the hotels we stay in must meet our criteria in order to be considered as an acceptable option. The criteria are as follows:

a. cheap, but nice

b. breakfast included

c. easy access to the room

(although we inevitably get put at the last room on the highest floor with no elevator)

Our Washington hotel met these criteria, AND gave us the added bonus of being right on the beach. Now, Washington beaches are different from California beaches (i.e. grotesque amounts of seaweed and sludge and all that accompanies low-tide), however, the kids enjoyed it daily and the maids who vacuumed our floors and cleaned our tub loved it too!