We will be in Boston late July for a conference. Anyone stayed at the Intercontinental? Is is centrally located? We want to eat good seafood, not necessarily fancy, just good. Suggestions?

Here is a link to a report someone gave after staying at this hotel early this year, I'd remembered seeing it b/c I was interested in a review - live in town but always looking for hotels for relatives and friends -

http://fodors.com/forums/threadselec...1&tid=34941387

To me, the most centrally located hotels are in Copley, Back Bay area ; then the waterfront -
but this is still a good lcoation - Boston is not that big, you are not that far away from anything -
I don't know how much free time you have, but you can , when you decide what else you want to see, use either www.hopstop.com or www.mbta.com to see about how to get there -

the mbta site only gives you T directions, but the hopstop site you can choose walking diretions, T or bus, etc...and there are always taxis.

Lots of good seafood in Boston -
here's a recent link on that

http://fodors.com/forums/threadselec...1&tid=35029067

plus, if you type "boston seafood restaurants" and various variations on that theme in the search thisi forum box at the top of the page, you will see lots of threads about who thinks which place is the best for seafood -

ones you can google/ try menu pages and/or opentable.com to see menus/ and on open table make reservations for some of them -
would include:

The Barking Crab, Legal Seafoods, Legal Seafood test Kitchen, Neptune Oyster, McCormick and Schmidt, Skipjacks....you will see all of thse in the threads I mentioned and more !

Hey bsweet... I will be at the InterContinental in Boston for a conference in late July!
I wonder if we are attending the same one?

Is it a UniPro conference?

Nope... it's a Travel Industry conference. July 21-25

I recently picked my niece up there after a conference. She loved the hotel. I did not think it was a terribly great location, but as was said, Boston is small and getting around is easy. It is just not a place where you walk out to find all kinds of fun activity like in Back Bay or closer to the waterfront and Faneuil Hall. However, my niece who has traveled a fair bit for her tender years, says it was the most elegant hotel in which she has ever stayed.

Thanks, I really appreciate all the info..I will be there the 28-31. Have a great weekend, everyone!