Ideas sightseeing Cape Cod/Boston in a very short time.
Jun 28th, 2012, 06:08 AM
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DD thinks they could use the van to drive downtown, I will be trying to convince them to use the T.
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For whatever reason, in my cluelessness, I never saw where they said that they wanted to drive around Boston in a van.
Driving in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville is very akin to Alice's trip down the rabbit hole.
Exactly! I definitely was under the impression that the van would be left in the parking structure at the hotel, not least because not all the gear would be removed from it to the hotel room.
nelsonian, you really want to impress upon your DD that you need to drive to the hotel, park the van, and explore the city on foot and public transit.
The most similarity that NYC streets have to Boston ones are in the Financial District, the West Village, and parts of Queens. The West Village is extremely straightforward compared to Boston. The Financial District comes close: lots of traffic (auto and otherwise); ancient one-way streets; no available street parking to speak of; and a distinct sense that "you can't get there from here". So does Queens, its curling paths with overlapping street names, but even there the street signs at least are a help! And in Boston/Cambridge/etc., it's all of these things *at the same time*.
But really, there's no comparison, just a matter of faith! I spent the first half of my life living in Boston/environs and of course return often. I can count on one hand the number of times in the last ten years that I've parked on the street (all of which were to go to the theater in Cambridge, and we parked in my family's "secret parking area" we have known for 40+ years and then walked into Harvard Square).
I have looked at lots of suburbs, some close to the airport, some in South Boston, Revere, just about everywhere!!
I can't speak from personal experience for the places you list, but I'd take the Westin Waterfront over them any day. (None of those have a reputation as great neighborhoods/towns; services like nearby restaurants won't be the same as being in Boston. I do know that driving from either the airport and Revere is a PIA...)
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For whatever reason, in my cluelessness, I never saw where they said that they wanted to drive around Boston in a van.
Driving in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville is very akin to Alice's trip down the rabbit hole.
Exactly! I definitely was under the impression that the van would be left in the parking structure at the hotel, not least because not all the gear would be removed from it to the hotel room.
nelsonian, you really want to impress upon your DD that you need to drive to the hotel, park the van, and explore the city on foot and public transit.
The most similarity that NYC streets have to Boston ones are in the Financial District, the West Village, and parts of Queens. The West Village is extremely straightforward compared to Boston. The Financial District comes close: lots of traffic (auto and otherwise); ancient one-way streets; no available street parking to speak of; and a distinct sense that "you can't get there from here". So does Queens, its curling paths with overlapping street names, but even there the street signs at least are a help! And in Boston/Cambridge/etc., it's all of these things *at the same time*.
But really, there's no comparison, just a matter of faith! I spent the first half of my life living in Boston/environs and of course return often. I can count on one hand the number of times in the last ten years that I've parked on the street (all of which were to go to the theater in Cambridge, and we parked in my family's "secret parking area" we have known for 40+ years and then walked into Harvard Square).
I have looked at lots of suburbs, some close to the airport, some in South Boston, Revere, just about everywhere!!
I can't speak from personal experience for the places you list, but I'd take the Westin Waterfront over them any day. (None of those have a reputation as great neighborhoods/towns; services like nearby restaurants won't be the same as being in Boston. I do know that driving from either the airport and Revere is a PIA...)
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