Four and a half hours, 10:00 to 14:30
The 24th Annual DC/Maryland Black College Expo runs Saturday 13 March 2027 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The Eventbrite listing records a 10:00 start, a 14:30 end and a 270-minute duration. The listing marks the event in person. Events DC prints the venue address as 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW.
National College Resources Foundation organises the expo. The ticket page carries the offer: acceptance on the spot and more than 5 million dollars in scholarships. The same page tells students and college transfer students to bring paper copies of their transcripts. The admissions desks work from paper that morning.
The seminar list covers financial aid, scholarships, starting a business and the student athlete. The page opens the event to high school students and college transfer students.
Ticket terms belong in the plan before anything gets booked. Prices run $9.10 to $12.29, and sales opened 17 April 2026. The listing states a refund policy of no refunds. The organiser paragraph repeats it. Contact runs through info@ncrfoundation.org and blackcollegeexpo.com.
Seven District properties sell a day room that Saturday
The Dayuse Washington listing, read 24 October 2026, carried 20 priced cards. Seven carry a District of Columbia breadcrumb. Thirteen sit in Virginia and Maryland. Distances below are straight-line from the convention centre pin at 38.9051269, -77.0229544.
AC Hotel Washington DC Convention Center, 0.22 miles out, sells 08:00-14:00, 10:00-17:00 and 13:00-19:00 at $104. The card prints a $150 nightly rate. The Capital Hilton, 0.71 miles out, sells 07:00-13:00, 10:00-16:00 and 10:00-17:00 at $116, against $329. Le Meridien Washington DC, The Madison, 0.61 miles out, sells 09:00-15:00, 10:00-17:00 and 15:00-20:00 at $140, against $200. Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square, 0.67 miles out, sells one window, 09:00-18:00, at $169, against $223.50. The Beacon Hotel and Corporate Headquarters, 0.82 miles out, sells five windows from 08:00-17:00 to 14:00-20:00 at $96, against $200. Melrose Georgetown Hotel, 1.59 miles out, sells 09:00-16:00 and 14:00-20:00 at $111, against $199. Viceroy Washington DC, 0.58 miles out, sells 09:00-17:00 and 14:00-21:00 at $144, against $299.
Those prices are each card's minimum offer price. The cards also state a maximum booking fee. The AC Hotel states $5, the Beacon $6, the Capital Hilton and Melrose Georgetown $7, Le Meridien and the Viceroy $9. The Sofitel card states none.
Pricing four and a half hours
No card on the read sells a four-and-a-half-hour window. Three cards sell five hours: Le Meridien 15:00-20:00, Hyatt Regency Bethesda 08:00-13:00 and Comfort Inn Falls Church 10:00-15:00. The Le Meridien window opens half an hour after the expo closes. The Falls Church window covers the expo end to end and sits outside the District.
Inside the District the shortest window covering 10:00 to 14:30 runs seven hours. AC Hotel sells 10:00-17:00 at $104. Capital Hilton sells 10:00-17:00 at $116. Viceroy sells 09:00-17:00 at $144. Beacon sells 10:00-18:00 at $96.
The day window sits below the card's own nightly rate on all seven District cards. The AC Hotel gap is $46, the Beacon gap $104, the Capital Hilton gap $213.
The seven District cards average $125.71 for the day. The Dayuse page states a Washington average day-room price of $109.92. All 20 cards average $105.90. The Virginia and Maryland cards start at $75.
Working from the room
Six of the seven District cards list Free WiFi and a business center. The six are AC Hotel, Viceroy, Le Meridien, Capital Hilton, Beacon and Melrose Georgetown. The Sofitel card lists a business center and no Free WiFi field.
The convention centre publishes complimentary Wi-Fi across the facility at 768 kBps download and 768 kBps upload. A day room gives a parent on a remote schedule a desk and a private connection for the morning.
Getting to the hall
Green and Yellow line trains stop at Mt. Vernon Square/Convention Center. Events DC states that the station entrances lead into the Convention Center. The venue publishes no public parking at the building and points to more than 3,000 spaces within a three-block radius, first-come, first-served.
Booking the window
hotelSlots sells four windows: morning 06:00-12:00, afternoon 12:00-18:00, evening 18:00-00:00 and overnight 00:00-06:00. The platform states 103,857+ hotels across 46 states. It quotes day rates 30-75% below the nightly rate at the same property, charges no booking fee, and passes payment to the hotel. Its directory carries no District of Columbia page, so the rates above come from Dayuse.
Four states restrict day-use booking on the platform: Florida, Hawaii, Iowa and Washington.
Book the 10:00-17:00 window at a property that lists Free WiFi. Leave the transcript copies in the room.
