About your host
Thirty years of travel taught me what a good stay feels like.
I'm Andrew Ibbotson. I have spent three decades as a commercial airline pilot, which means thousands of nights away from home in every kind of accommodation, in cities all over the world. My early stays in short-term rentals showed me how much a well-located, thoughtfully equipped home can change a trip. That is what convinced me to start hosting in 2021.
I own and personally run both homes on this site: one in Foggy Bottom, one on Capitol Hill. I stock them the way I wish every rental I ever stayed in had been stocked, describe them exactly as they are, and answer my own messages. When guests write that I "doubled as a tour guide," that is the part of this work I enjoy most. DC is my city, and I like helping people get the best of it.
Both homes are licensed short-term rentals with the District of Columbia, hosted continuously since 2021, with 327 guest reviews averaging 4.97 across Airbnb, VRBO, and Google.
If you have a question before booking, ask me directly. You will get an answer from the person who owns the home, usually quickly.