WASHINGTON — Just in time for this month's presidential inauguration, a new Top 10 hotels list for Washington, D.C., based on online consumer reviews, shows us the most popular hotels in the city.

PHOTO GALLERY: Washington's Top 10 reviewed hotels

The list includes the most expensive hotel in the city (Four Seasons) as well as an affordable hotel that features all suites with kitchenettes (Carlyle Suites).

The Top 10 list was compiled for USA TODAY's Hotel Check-In by ReviewPro, a company that calculates hotels' scores by crunching consumer reviews from more than 120 Web sources such as consumer review giant TripAdvisor. Only in some cases does this list and TripAdvisor's Top 10 overlap, which gives consumers a fresh, alternative look at the most popular hotels in town.

"This is a list of the 'best' hotels according to guest perception," says Josiah Mackenzie of ReviewPro. "It's not necessarily a 'value for money' list, but value does tend to drive a lot of online review ratings."

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The No. 1 spot on this list goes to the hotel with the best views of the White House: The iconic Hay-Adams, where President. Obama and his family stayed before moving into the White House.

Before revealing the full Top 10 list, I want to share a few highlights with you:

Most affordable: The Carlyle Suites, a Dupont Circle hotel in a former apartment building with a Sunday brunch that's popular with Washingtonians. It's possible to book a room, which includes a kitchenette, for about $120 a night (during slow periods).

Most expensive: The posh Four Seasons at the entrance to Georgetown, within walking distance to the neighborhood's many boutiques and restaurants. For inauguration, the hotel's cheapest room costs a princely $1,095 a night, with a five-night requirement.

Hippest: Not surprisingly, no wildly hip hotels made the Top 10 list. So, depending on your price range, I'd give this title to either to the vibrant Hotel Palomar or the pricier, more subdued Park Hyatt, with its modern, glass-enclosed, seating areas by the bar that let Washingtonians be seen but not heard.

Most pet friendly: As on the Top 10 Los Angeles hotels list, boutique-hotel operator Kimpton's local Hotel Palomar again steals this title. The hotel's in the heart of Dupont Circle.

Biggest: The historic Willard InterContinental, with 335 guest rooms. (Did you know? Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his most inspirational speech at this hotel in 1963.)

Where are the large chains?

Hotel chains certainly are represented on this Top 10 list (Hyatt, InterContinental, Sofitel, Ritz-Carlton), but they are mostly smaller chains with fewer than about 85 hotels.

The biggest exception: The historic Willard, which in the 1980s re-opened as part of IHG's luxury InterContinental chain, is one of about 170 InterContinental locations throughout the world.

Three of the 10 hotels are independent hotels (Hay-Adams, Jefferson, Carlyle Suites).

When it comes to ranking the biggest, multinational operators, Marriott International and IHG tie for first place with one property apiece.

Marriott International, which is based in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., and operates several full-service hotels in the city, has a single hotel on the list that's part of its medium-sized luxury Ritz-Carlton chain. (In contrast, on last month's Top 10 Los Angeles hotels list, Marriott had two entries, a Ritz-Carlton and a JW Marriott.)

Hilton Worldwide, which is based in the Washington suburb of McLean, Va., can't claim any hotels on this Top 10 list; the same is true with New York-based Starwood. Both Hilton and Starwood run several hotels in Washington.

How does this list compare with TripAdvisor's Top 10?

Given consumers' reliance on TripAdvisor, I figured many of you would want to know how ReviewPro's Top 10 list compares with Top 10 identified on TripAdvisor's site. In some cases, they're similar.

Here's the list of hotels listed in order of ReviewPro's ranking along with each property's TripAdvisor ranking and a nightly rate estimate from TripAdvisor.

1. The Hay-Adams: TripAdvisor's No. 1 ($370 and up)

2. Four Seasons Hotel Washington: TripAdvisor's No. 4 ($504 and up)

3. Fairmont Washington D.C., Georgetown: TripAdvisor's No. 11 ($179 and up)

4. Ritz-Carlton Georgetown: TripAdvisor's No. 20 ($419 and up)

5: The Jefferson Hotel: TripAdvisor's No. 9 ($390 and up)

6. Park Hyatt Washington: TripAdvisor's No. 5 ($231 and up)

7. Sofitel Washington D.C.: TripAdvisor's No. 2 ($191 and up)

8. Willard InterContinental Hotel: TripAdvisor's No. 7 ($214 and up)

9. Hotel Palomar Washington D.C.: TripAdvisor's No. 3 ($133 and up)

10. Carlyle Suites: TripAdvisor's No. 9 ($109 and up)

Hotels that made TripAdvisor's Top 10, but didn't appear on ReviewPro's list: Hotel George, A Kimpton Hotel (No. 6 on TripAdvisor; $149 and up) and The Madison (No. 10 on TripAdvisor; $150 and up).

ReviewPro tracks more than 120 review sites and online agencies, including review giant TripAdvisor as well as travel agency sites such as Orbitz and Expedia. The firm tracks online reputations for an eclectic mix of hotel customers such as the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air in Beverly Hills, which is part of the elite Dorchester Collection group of hotels.

The company analyzed review data for about 125 Washington hotels from the month of December 2012 to assemble the list.

Readers: Which hotel would you expect to see on the Top 10 Washington hotels list?