Hotels & Lodging in Alexandria, VA (2026)
1 verified hotels & lodging rules for Alexandria, Virginia, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Transient Occupancy Tax
Alexandria charges every hotel guest and short-term rental guest 6.5% of the room rental plus a flat $1.25-per-night fee under City Code § 3-2-142. Because § 3-2-141 folds short-term residential rentals defined in § 3-2-152 into the code's "hotel" definition, Airbnb and VRBO stays under 30 days owe the identical tax as a hotel room.
Alexandria Hotel & Short-Term Rental Occupancy Tax
Some RestrictionsAlexandria City Code §§ 3-2-141, 3-2-142
Hotel. Any public or private hotel, inn, apartment hotel, hostelry, tourist home or house, motel, rooming house, short-term residential rental as defined in section 3-2-152, or other lodging place within the city offering lodging to any transient as hereinafter defined for compensation and, except for short-term residential rental as defined in section 3-2-152, which can lodge four or more pers...