Which DC area Metro station is this? (Solved)

Drake Chambers

Some years ago my wife and I were invited to a wedding outside DC (we live in the area). We made a little vacation out of it nonetheless and stayed in a hotel where they had a block of rooms. Because we weren't familiar with the exact area, we rented a car for the weekend (we don't own one). We found it hilarious, then, when we walked out of the parking garage for the hotel to see the sign for a Metro station right there.

I cannot for the life of me figure out which Metro station it was.

We stayed in a Marriott hotel. I'm pretty sure there was a movie theater there. There was also a body of water, maybe no more than a pond, but it had a wooden boardwalk along the edge that went around the back of the hotel. There were also a couple of restaurants there, one of which was a big barbecue style place that didn't seem to be a chain.

I'm pretty sure it's towards the end of one line or another (probably in Maryland, maybe in Virginia?), but Google maps isn't helping a lot -- I don't think there's a street view into the area I'm remembering.

So, any locals have any idea where we were?

Xaquin

you may be able to use this to jog your memory or at least compare stations with a map

http://www.wmata.com/rail/maps/map.cfm

also, check Marriott locations (I want to say there is one around branch ave, but I can't remember)

Darkewolfe

If you have any hope at all, you'll need to clarify when "some years ago" was. Can you definitely recall that the body of water was just a small pond? Almost none of these details is likely to remain true if "some years ago" was a decade ago.

Creidhes

My first guess would be the Old Town Alexandria Marriot near the King St metro. It has a cute dog park area with a smaller stagnant river. It may have been a wooden boardwalk at one time (it's all concrete now). There's a movie theater and a bbq place nearby (Joe Theisman's - but it's a chain).

(I'm in Arlington too).

Drake Chambers

Thanks for the guesses! I actually found the hotel: it's the Courtyard Gaithersburg Washingtonian Center.

I found it by looking at the satellite map around Marriott locations and identified the apparently unnamed small lake they have there. The detail I'm apparently mis-remembering is the proximity of a Metro station, unfortunately. I could have sworn we saw a Metro sign just outside the hotel parking garage but the Shady Grove station is about 2 miles away. Maybe it was a sign for a shuttle or bus.

Anyway, mystery solved. Thanks all!