★★★☆☆
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, Virginia 22202 USA
Phone: 1-703-920-3230
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasgw-crystal-gateway-marriott/

mez03.jpgAfter a long day of travel and the excitement of seeing the 2009 Inauguration on Tuesday, we finally arrived back at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, out hotel. We decided to eat dinner at Mez Restaurant for it was in the hotel and we were too exhausted to travel far. The Mez is casual dining and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is wheelchair accessible except for the restrooms.

mez104.jpgAccess is easy for the doors are always kept wide open for it is inside of the Marriott. All the tables are wheelchair accessible and of perfect height for my wheelchair. Our waiter was friendly, courteous and kind. The service and food was very good.

mez106.jpgThe restroom inside the Mez Restaurant is not wheelchair accessible for it is too small and my wheelchair couldn’t fit inside. If you dine at the Mez and need to use the restroom; you will need to go back into the lobby; wheel all the way to the other side of where the Mez is located and use the hotel’s restrooms. The Marriott’s lobby restrooms are spacious, wheelchair accessible and fully ADA compliant.

I give the Mez Restaurant  THREE STARS for wheelchair accessibility. In order to earn the other Two Stars they need to enlarge and remodel their restroom to make it wheelchair accessible and ADA compliant. All customers should have equal access to the restroom inside the restaurant.