Ginger S.
Yelp
The Scarlet Vetter says..... I recently stayed in this lovely boutique hotel for the second time. I decided I would wait for two experiences to rate it. This hotel, located down by the water, is very hip. It has a lovely lobby and a full business center with multiple computers and a printer. When the printer ran out of ink, the front desk, very kindly offered to have me email what I needed printed to them and they immediately printed it, and they sent over a technician to make sure that the guest printer was reloaded with ink and paper. The entire hotel is nautically themed. It also has a great restaurant attached to it, which I will review separately. When you stay at the hotel, you get twenty percent off your dinner at the restaurant, which is a nice perk. So first.... my review of the rooms, they are very nice. For my second stay I selected a king size single room (city view) and it was well appointed with nautical style lamps and other features and a nautically themed rug. It was extremely clean and comfortable and very spacious for a city hotel room. For Boston, it was also very, very reasonably priced. The good things are, it was extremely clean, it was very quiet and also very very comfortable. They provide an actual room key, like a real metal key with the room number on it, which was an incredibly nice touch. A few of the things that might annoy very seasoned road warriors: the hot water took quite some time to reach the shower, when turning on the shower, but then it was great and the shower was excellent and you didn't have any of those nasty plastic shower curtains hitting your body while you are showering in a strange place.....it was a beautifully enclosed glass shower. The room temperature controls were also not that great. I have an app that tracks my body temperature at night, and it's easier to sleep when it's cooler than not, and it's also better for your body. I was at an elevated temperature all night because I could not get the temperature of the room down m. This could have been because it was a very, very hot night in the summer in Boston when I stayed there. At times, the room felt a bit stuffy and warm to me. As you will see from my picture of the items that are provided in the bathroom, there was no hair conditioner offered. I was extremely unhappy that there was no hair conditioner provided. In any given week, I'm in one or two hotels for multiple nights and I do not travel with things that should be provided by a hotel as basic amenities. If I did, I would be traveling with items that are above the limit for the TSA and I would be extremely weighed down.
Again. But the room was quite gorgeous, really, it is very impressive. Maybe because it is in an older building, it suffered from the problem of not having enough outlets..... like literally, there were no outlets. There was no outlet by the desk which is where I had to perform a lot of work. As you can see by the picture, my computer cord had to stretch behind me, and I actually had to step over it, to get into the chair. About the chair. This room was not designed by someone who works for a living on the road. The chair had someone sitting way below their comfort level for the surface on which one would either be typing or eating......you were very far below where you should be and it was very uncomfortable. I ended up taking my computer down to the restaurant and sat at the bar to do a lot of my work, which probably was pretty fun for me but may not work for everyone. For those who hate sitting on the toilet and having your toilet paper behind you and having to reach back to get it, you would be annoyed at this bathroom, because that's exactly what the situation is. However, there is a bar in front of the toilet on which you could put the toilet paper and just leave it there for the duration of your stay. Now, for some of the great things.....the bed is extremely comfortable, and there were multiple pillows. The TV is extremely large. There are very nice amenities in the room such as a boston tourist book with a full city map and also an incredible, wide, full length mirror. There was also a stereo, a safe and a refrigerator. The staff at the hotel were extremely accommodating. Upon check in I was offered a mini bottle of prosecco or a bottle of water. I come to Boston often and have checked out a number of hotels. When I'm on a smaller client budget, I will definitely choose this hotel again as it is incredibly affordably priced and offers everything that is needed for most travelers!