Ever since the Nixon administration helped orchestrate and cover up a break - in at the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) military headquarters at the Watergate Complex , the neighbor Washington D.C. hotel has become synonymous with scandal . ( And the suffix “ -gate ” has been used to signify all kinds of dirt , from “ donut " to “ ponytail ” ) . Despite the unsavoury connotations , theWatergate Hotelstill has the same name decennium later . Now , Travel + Leisurereports that it ’s embracing its scandalous history with a special themed elbow room .
Room 214 , the web site where the deplorable plot was planned , has been reimagined as the “ Scandal Room ” in laurels of the consequence ’s forty-fifth anniversary . The interior mull an early 1970s theme , down to the retro turntable and typewriter . Around the room , guest will regain newspaper press cutting report the fib as it broke .
The room ’s raw name is n’t just a reference to the theme : It ’s a nod to its intriguer Lyn Paolo who also plan the costumes for the TV political dramaScandal . " I am beyond thrilled to work with Rakel Cohen [ senior vice president of design and development and co - owner of the Watergate Hotel ] to plan our own interpretation of the Watergate scandal room , " Paolo said in apress release . " I jazz upcountry excogitation [ and ] politics , and , of course , I am inspired to avail design a room with such a disgraceful account . ”
Edgar Albert Guest interested in reliving one of the most infamous episode in American government can pay $ 800 a night to have the elbow room to themselves when it spread out in late evenfall . visitant checked into other part of the hotel will also find homage to its controversial history : The phone ’s clench medicine is replaced with Nixon speeches , the robe are brand with the Word “ plow up , ” and the room key read “ no indigence to break in . ”
[ h / tTravel + Leisure ]
