The Holiday Inn Silver Spring hotel offers guests the convenience of being close to I-495 for easy access to downtown Washington D.C., Bethesda, Maryland, and Baltimore, Maryland. Renovated between 1999 and 2000, the hotel features contemporary furnishings and modern equipment. For onsite recreation, the outdoor pool and surrounding patio area offers fun for the whole family. A fitness room with stair stepper, treadmill, and stationary bike provides a place for a refreshing workout. Golf enthusiasts will find a course within five miles of the hotel. p For meals, the hotels own River City Grill and Lounge serves a buffet breakfast, buffet lunch, and tasty American favorites during dinner. In the lounge, guests will find lighter fare, cocktails, and televisions with CNN and ESPN on all day long. Room service is available. p For your convenience, the hotel offers luggage hold, parking (fee), wake-up calls, shoeshine, VCR rental, multilingual staff, a cash machine, a gift shop, safe deposit boxes, laundry facilities, laundry valet, 13 meeting rooms, a business center, copier, fax machines, and a printer. Howard University and Bethesda are four miles from the hotel. The White House, the Smithsonian, the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and other downtown D.C. attractions are five miles from the hotel. Guests can reach Washington Dulles airport in 25 miles and the Baltimore airport in 27 miles. p This hotel has 220 rooms and 11 suites on 15 floors. Non-smoking floors and rooms equipped for the physically challenged are available upon request. Rollaway beds are available. In each room, guests can enjoy a coffeemaker, workspace, dataports, hairdryer, iron, and ironing board. p br