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The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner
McLean, Virginia, United States · Ritz-Carlton · Core Luxury
The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner occupies Theodore Lerner's 1999 Galleria tower at 1700 Tysons Boulevard, a 398-room hotel above a mall National Geographic called the Rodeo Drive of the East Coast in 2002. It sits in Northern Virginia's defense corridor, minutes from CIA headquarters in Langley and Capital One's campus, and the Silver Line, extended to Tysons in 2014, reaches Dulles and downtown Washington.
- 398 rooms
- Opened 1999
- Neighborhood: Tysons
About The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner
- The Ritz-Carlton building at 1700 Tysons Boulevard, completed in 1999 as part of Theodore Lerner's Galleria at Tysons II, gave the brand the most current physical plant of any Ritz-Carlton in the Washington metropolitan area.
- National Geographic called the Galleria the Rodeo Drive of the East Coast in 2002, reflecting Neiman Marcus and Saks anchor tenants whose sales rank among the highest per square foot in the country.
- The hotel sits in Northern Virginia's intelligence and defense corridor, minutes from CIA headquarters in Langley and Capital One's nearby corporate campus.
- Tysons Corner Center, the region's first major shopping mall, opened in 1961 after the CIA completed its Langley headquarters, catalyzing the transformation of a rural Fairfax County crossroads.
- The Silver Line Metro, extended to Tysons in 2014, connects the hotel directly to Dulles International Airport and downtown Washington.
History
Tysons — known formally as Tysons Corner, though Virginia never officially incorporated it as a town — was a rural crossroads in Fairfax County until 1961, when the Central Intelligence Agency completed its headquarters complex in nearby Langley. That construction catalyzed a transformation of the surrounding Virginia countryside that accelerated through the 1960s when Tysons Corner Center, the region's first major shopping mall, opened along the Route 7 and Route 123 intersection. The corridor that grew up around that junction became, over the following decades, one of the most concentrated clusters of intelligence community contractors, defense-sector offices, and technology companies in the United States — a geography shaped by proximity to agencies that prefer not to advertise their addresses.
The Galleria at Tysons II opened in October 1988, developed by Theodore Lerner as the upscale counterpart to the existing Tysons Corner Center across Route 123. Anchored by Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, the Galleria was conceived as a European-streetscape mall — National Geographic called it the Rodeo Drive of the East Coast in 2002 — and its development included an adjacent luxury hotel tower as part of the integrated Tysons II corporate and retail campus. The Ritz-Carlton building at 1700 Tysons Boulevard, rising twenty-four stories, was completed in 1999 as part of that campus, giving the hotel the most current physical plant of any Ritz-Carlton property in the Washington metropolitan area.
The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner has operated since 1990, initially in an earlier configuration before the current tower was purpose-built for the brand, and has served as the preferred luxury address for the particular category of traveler that Northern Virginia's intelligence and defense corridor generates: executives at Capital One, which built its campus nearby and made McLean its corporate home; senior officials and contractors from the agencies in Langley and along the Route 123 corridor; and the international visitors — European, Middle Eastern, Far Eastern — whom the Galleria's anchor tenants attract in sufficient numbers to sustain sales that rank among the highest per square foot in the country.
Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate on the Potomac, is twenty minutes south. Old Town Alexandria, with its eighteenth-century street grid and Federal-period architecture, is a short drive east. The wine country of Loudoun County and Middleburg is an hour west. The Silver Line Metro, extended to Tysons in 2014, connects the hotel directly to Dulles International Airport and to downtown Washington. The ENTYSE Wine, Raw Bar and Grill operates off the lobby, serving the tea service, cocktails, and small plates that fuel the corridor's working days and evenings.
The setting
1700 Tysons Boulevard in McLean, inside Lerner's Galleria at Tysons II. The Silver Line, extended here in 2014, runs to Dulles and downtown Washington.
Restaurants and bars
- ENTYSE — Restaurant · International
Experiences
- Club Lounge culinary presentations — Continuous Club Level culinary presentations with complimentary beer, wine and cocktails, plus Virginia-inspired mini apple pies and local charcuterie.
- Club Lounge local expert experiences — In the Club Lounge, local experts host unique experiences for Club Level guests.
- RITZ Afternoon Tea — Afternoon tea every Friday, Saturday and Sunday with canapés, desserts, a tea selection and piano entertainment.
- Curated wine tastings, live music and seasonal events at ENTYSE — Wine tastings, live music and seasonal events at the hotel's restaurant ENTYSE.
Amenities
- Indoor pool
- Spa with CBD treatments and Longeva sleep program
- 24th-floor Ritz-Carlton Club Lounge with views toward DC and Washington Monument
- 24-hour fitness center
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- EV charging
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
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