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Places to Stay

PRICE CATEGORIES The Hotel Veritas
For a standard, double room per night (with breakfast MAP F2 • 1 Remington
if included), taxes and extra charges. St, Cambridge, MA 02138
• 617 520 5000 • www.
$ under $175 $$ $175–300 $$$ over $300 thehotelveritas.com
• $$$
Boston Lodgings Fairmont Copley This very buttoned-down
with Character Plaza Hotel and soothing 31-room
MAP U5 • 138 St James boutique hotel is a short
Beacon Hill Hotel Ave, Boston, MA 02116 block from Harvard Yard
& Bistro • 617 267 5300 • www. but just far enough from
MAP V4 • 25 Charles St, fairmont.com/copley- Harvard Square to avoid
Boston, MA 02114 • 617 plaza-boston • $$ the bustle and noise.
723 7575 • www.beacon All 383 rooms in this Amenities (including
hillhotel.com • $$ Edwardian grande dame Wi-Fi) are luxe, personal
This smart boutique hotel on Copley Square in the service is tops, but many
near Boston Common has heart of Back Bay have guest rooms are small.
the feel of a family-run been renovated, updating
Parisian hotel. Rooms the traditional genteel Liberty Hotel
may be small but are very style of dark woods and MAP V3 • 215 Charles St,
chic; a sitting room and rich fabrics. Boston, MA 02114 • 617
private roof deck offer 224 4000 • www.liberty
space to spread out. The Godfrey Hotel hotel.com • $$$
Breakfast is included. Boston Located at the foot of
MAP W4 • 505 Beacon Hill, this swanky
Charles Hotel Washington St, Boston, hotel incorporates the
MAP F2 • 1 Bennett St, MA 02111 • 617 804 2000 historic granite archi-
Cambridge, MA 02138 • www.godfreyhotel tecture of the Charles
• 617 864 1200 • www. boston.com • $$ Street Jail with the latest
charleshotel.com • $$ The cornerstone of in modern design.
Visiting celebrities and Downtown Crossing’s
academics love the revitalization, this Revere Hotel Boston
Charles’s hallmark boutique gem beautifully Common
style – a spare modernism combines cutting-edge MAP V4 • 200 Stuart St,
softened by such homey technology with old- Boston, MA 02116 • 617
touches as custom quilts fashioned comfort. It’s 482 1800 • www.revere
on the beds. The hotel’s conveniently close to hotel.com • $$$
attractive plaza hosts a the Financial District Two blocks from Boston
lively farmers’ market for work or the Theater Common at the edge of
and outdoor dining during District for play. Very the Theater District, this
the summer months. fast Wi-Fi included. contemporary luxury
hotel has 356 large rooms
Charlesmark Hotel Harborside Inn decorated in minimalist
MAP U5 • 655 Boylston St, MAP X3 • 185 State St, style. The location is
Boston, MA 02116 • 617 Boston, MA 02109 • 617 convenient for sight-
247 1212 • www.charles 723 7500 • www.harbor seeing, but can be noisy
markhotel.com • $$ sideinnboston.com • $$ at night. Wi-Fi is free.
In an 1892 townhouse, the Housed in a granite
Charlesmark resembles former spice warehouse, The Verb Hotel
contemporary European this boutique hotel MAP S5 • 1271 Boylston
urban boutique hotels, is located just steps St, Boston, MA 02115
with its tiny lobby, from the harbor and the • 617 566 4500 • www.
compact rooms, and Faneuil Hall Marketplace. theverbhotel.com • $$$
high-concept design. A Boston travel guide is Located behind iconic
Breakfast is included. kept in each room. Fenway Park, The Verb

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