Boutique hotel, accommodating staff, extremely convenient
Smaller hotel w/ modern touches, can't really pick a better location. Had to book a last minute room as I was doing emergency work in the area. The staff were accommodating to the times I needed the room (working overnight, needed a room during most of the day) and interacts with everyone on a personal level. Bed is comfortable and bath is a generous size. Room size is consistant w/ this type of hotel, enough for a single person/business traveler. Would be too small if I had my family with me. My only real complaints would be short selection of tv channels w/ a grainy picture on some (surprising for a newer lcd) and the lack of wall outlets throughout the room. Only plugs are one across the room and then a single outlet built into a lamp on the desk. Makes it hard to charge my laptops, cell phone, and iPod (iPod charges on an alarm clock dock on the desk, also across the room). I can clearly hear conversations in the hallways as well as the shower next door. Bar downstairs is lively. Not sure what the charge is for parking, other hotels in the area are $30-40/night so I'd expect here to be similar, don't even think about parking on the street, valet the car and leave it. Grocery store next door is open 24hrs, and stepping out the front door, you're right across the street from Copley Plaza and the Prudential Center, as well only 2 blocks or so from Boylston St, Newbury St, and several options for public transportation. I'm from here but out of towners will do well to explore the myriad of shopping and dining choices in the entire area as you can reach tons of places by walking across the street into Copley Plaza which attached to and has enclosed walkways to take you to several other hotels and the Prudential Center. These other places all bring you out to street levelin several different spots so you can many places without going back outside, useful in the winter.