Dave K.
Yelp
2-star experience in 5-star location with 4-star prices. Avoid.
I arrive at 11pm or so on a Tuesday night to a dead empty lobby, empty reception desk, and "press button for service" sign. Am I in a $50/night Motel 6 or a $450/night premium Marriott on Boston's long wharf? Sadly, the latter.
Why is everything closed? If just two people are drinking $17 martinis at one per hour you should be making money? (And they'll attract others.) AFAICT, state-imposed Covid-restrictions ended in May. I'll learn more from my Boston friends tomorrow, but right now it's puzzling.
Btw, this place has a great setup to handle Covid -- lots of space, spread-out tables, high ceilings, etc.
Anyway, after the person who seemingly preferred to do nothing behind the wall to doing nothing at the reception desk sauntered out, I got my key. The little "store" next to the check had pretty much bare shelves. Bags of chips. Not a wrap or anything resembling real food to be found. Not a beer, either.
Room itself was fine except the air conditioning makes a pronounced click -- loud and startling enough to wake you -- which it did several times.
Marriott, brand wide it seems, has eliminated traditional room service, replacing it with A La Carte, a poor replacement featuring mostly what I'm guessing is premade, packaged food served in paper cups and delivery boxes and bags. If you like eating overcooked eggs on a paper tray with a plastic knife and spoon (they forgot the fork), then you'll love it. Otherwise, not so much. Think an in-house Uber Eats with software that doesn't work (lots of bugs) and a highly restricted menu to pretty average food. If you have time, you may as well use the real Uber Eats instead, which is what I did the night I arrived and everything was closed.
By the way, what was this thing doing in my room when I arrived? If you need it to fix / dehumidify the room, then well, maybe you should take it out -- and it wasn't even running when I got there.
One time, last time.