Hellllllp! finding hotel room in Washington, DC

May 29 19:06 UTC 2007

I'm taking the family to Washington DC at the end of next month (June).
 There's my wife and I, and 4 kids (age/gender: 16g, 14b, 11g, 11b). 
We'd like to find a room for 3-4 days with a kitchenette, pool, and if
possible, free breakfast.  We haven't got a whole lot of money.  If I
can avoid taking everyone out to eat for a lot of our meals, we can
squeeze our budget a lot and maybe not have to walk to get there.

When you try to put in 2 adults, 4 kids for most of the hotel finding
sites, they snicker and chortle and say "that's a lot of people".  If
they return anything, there's the option to look through 600 WWW sites,
490 of which don't have any rooms available of any kind (and which are
for 20 different locations with 24.3 WWW sites each), 87 of which have
rooms for 1-2 people and most of which are located further away from
Washington DC than where I live, and 19 of which have kitchenettes and
such but cost $490 per night.  I am getting pretty worn out, trying to
find a place to stay.  I'm going to NEED this vacation by the time I get
to take it.

I should perhaps just buy a house there.  Or my own hotel chain.

But instead, I thought I'd ask my wise and noble friends on Grex for
suggestions.  Do I just not know how to use the travel WWW sites or
something?  Is there no way to put into a travel WWW site what my
requirements are, so I don't have to explore a lot of individual pages
in hopes of stumbling across one that offers what I need?