The Hotel Estherea is beautiful on the inside with a great breakfast and an extremely accommodating staff. Other than the tiny closest in our room, nothing about the hotel could be better. It is about five blocks from a metro station and two blocks from a trolley. There are many restaurants in the area. However, our canal view room overlooked a dumpster from a houseboat being remodeled and had a great view of the graffiti on the large building across the canal. The bicycles, cars, and hordes of tourists make the very narrow streets and sidewalks in the area unpleasant to walk on. We would not stay in this area again.