How many days would you allow to see national mall area &Smithsonian museums? How about other must-sees in the area? Would you suggest staying in the Alexandria area separately, or is it reasonable ...
We will be outside the DC area closer to Baltimore next month and will have a car. I hear parking downtown is almost non-existent and expensive and am told to take the Metro. Problem there is everyone seems to tell me that nearly all metro station parking are filled by 8am. So if I can't drive into DC and can't park at Metro stations how do we tour DC? We'd be wanting to go late morning 9-10ish.