SkinsTerps26 Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 I've been gone from MD for 3 years and I'm just now hearing about this. People in MD. let me know what you know about it. I'm hearing Disney is building a hotel/resort there. I also know a national childrens museum will be up by 2013, but how does it look right now? anyone been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 It's coming around. The Gaylord Resort Hotel is the anchor, and it's worth strolling through as a sightseer. One side of the 18 story atrium is a glass front that looks out over the Potomac River. The atrium is huge, with restaurants, lush gardens, and a fountain that shoots 50 feet into the air. Two entire colonial style brick buildings are in the atrium! The Harbor sits right along the Potomac and has a pier jutting out into the River. More restaurants have opened up, and they now have a couple of lower price choices - Pot Belly Sandwiches and Elevation Burger are open, along with higher priced McCormack and Schmicks, Rosa Mexicano, Ketchup, and a showy Chinese place I can't remember the name of. Some shops are open too, with more promised. They're trying to sell condos there too, but apparently sales are really slow - no big surprise in this economy. It's worth an evening to go down and look around. The overall feel is a place trying find find its legs, with commercial tenants moving in and hoping for the crowds to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTerps26 Posted August 1, 2009 Author Share Posted August 1, 2009 would love to see what becomes with that Disney Owned Land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terpskins10 Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 It's really nice. It has a few nice restaurants like Rosa Mexicano and the Gaylord is really cool. I've stayed there for a company retreat before and it's like a mini town inside the building. I think if they build it up the right way, it could be popular like Baltimore's inner harbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Stay away from Ketchup, not good. Grace's Mandarin and McKormick and Schmicks are my favorites down there. PA little high priced, but to be expected for the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissU28 Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 i've never even heard of National Harbor.....how long has this place been around? Where exactly is it located? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 i've never even heard of National Harbor.....how long has this place been around? Where exactly is it located? Going from VA into MD it's on the banks of the Potomac right accross the Woodrow Wilson bridge in MD. Been there about 1.5 or 2 years I think, but still in the process of building and opening things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTerps26 Posted August 1, 2009 Author Share Posted August 1, 2009 This is great, plus with baltimore expanding harbor east, MD is doing itself right by building up these water front areas. I hope the transit system keeps up with this development, instead of wasting 4 billion widening I-270 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTerps26 Posted August 1, 2009 Author Share Posted August 1, 2009 i've never even heard of National Harbor.....how long has this place been around? Where exactly is it located? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmySmith Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 You get the feel that this place with not be around in 5 years. I have been once, and do not see going back. Everyone I talk to about it, says the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanos Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I like it.Went to Cirpue de Solil last year. There have ferries from Alexandria so its a nice evening for a date if you have the cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Yeah, I went there for Cirque too. The weirdest thing was that GPS couldn't find it. My maps were too old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tastes Like Chicken Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Yeah, I went there for Cirque too. The weirdest thing was that GPS couldn't find it. My maps were too old. Tried to go one time with my wife, and the GPS kept looping us around some residential neighborhood next to the water :hysterical: Wonder if the Disney site could somehow be tied to their vacation club or cruise business? They have 2 new ships coming in the next couple of years. Is the water deep enough to handle a big cruise ship or ferry people to and from one anchored in deeper water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 This place will survive, if it does, on the conference and meeting traffic they book, just like the sister property in Nashville, the Opryland Hotel aka NashVegas. Organizations book an event supposedly in a 'name' city with attractions, and the attendees never get to leave the hotel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 We went there once a few weeks ago. Call me unimpressed. The Awakening is there, which is cool, but the rest just strikes me as an outdoor mall.:yawnee: BTW, we went to one restaurant for lunch, whose specialty was apparently different kinds of ketchup. The food was OK, but overpriced. Worst of all, we ordered a cranberry juice for our 3 year old daughter. She didn't want to drink it and said it tasted bad. My wife tasted it an nearly spit it out all over me. They gave my 3 year old daughter a vodka and cranberry juice. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanos Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 They gave my 3 year old daughter a vodka and cranberry juice. :doh: :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc96 Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 You get the feel that this place with not be around in 5 years. I have been once, and do not see going back. Everyone I talk to about it, says the same. What about it makes you say this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Worst of all, we ordered a cranberry juice for our 3 year old daughter. She didn't want to drink it and said it tasted bad. My wife tasted it an nearly spit it out all over me. They gave my 3 year old daughter a vodka and cranberry juice. :doh: :hysterical: Thats just horrible man. I thought the food was overpriced too, but I did enjoy the ketchup sampling...whoever thought of Maple Syrup Ketchup was a genius! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DButz65 Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 They have a Dueling Piano Bar called Bobby McKee's that we went to when they opened it, that was pretty fun, saw their xmas tree lighting ceremony there this past xmas, that was cool too, but yea its still under construction for the most part. Dont eat at the buffet in the main hotel there, the food is "eh" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTerps26 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 so nothing good so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan2k Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Its a good place just to hang out.. it will become better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovetoaster Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 You get the feel that this place with not be around in 5 years. I have been once, and do not see going back. Everyone I talk to about it, says the same. Yeah, I agree. I heard so much about it and I went not too long ago and was very unimpressed to be honest. It was a lot of hotels and super over-commercialized shops. It was not really anything that I not go to a couple of places around the DC area and see. Except in some places it has a view of the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 so nothing good so far... The Opryland resorts are like Vegas ... but without the gambling, fun, entertainment and all 'round opportunities for sinning. Opryland resorts are a place for people attending dull business conferences to run up their company-paid expense accounts for a few days. Not a place you would want to go voluntarily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFromYellowstone Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I like it. Grace's Mandarin is a really good Chinese restaurant with a good sushi selection, and Schmicks is really good too. I had some really good seabass there. It's a fun place. To each their own I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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