Hi everyone,

We're working on the next Boston update, and want to hear about your favorite places to stay. Our goal is to present reviews for the properties YOU want, covering all prices and experiences, in about 75 selections.

Please let me know if you've had an excellent experience at any hotel/suites/apts in Boston. If we don't already cover it, I'll recommend it to the updater and editor for inclusion in the next edition.

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Erica Duecy
Fodor's Restaurants & Hotels Editor

Love the Marriott Long Wharf...
good views, nice walking arond area, easy to get to places..Fanueil Hall, restauarnts, shops, tube right on the corner as well as ferries to Cape Cod...

ttt... let's help out our Fodor's Editors!

Love the hotels in Back Bay. The Lenox has a great historical feel and is close to everything!

The Westin in Back Bay is my all time favourite. The views of the Charles river from the 35th floor are fantastic. Bar 10 always seems to be buzzing and is good for pre dinner drinks. We've also enjoyed the occasional tasting sessions that they've laid out in the lobby including breads with various olive oils one night and an interesting selection of cheese. My kids like the pool and the room service menu.

Without the kids I like to stay at the Nine Zero. The rooms are smaller than the Westin but the bathrooms are nicer and I love the scent of Mario Russo shampoo (lemony with olive oil). The cocktail bar, Spire? has great drinks.

We loved staying at the Omni Parker House. The rooms are very nice, and the location is great. You walk out your door and are on the Freedom Trail. Faneuil Hall is a quick walk away for great lunch treats.

We really enjoyed staying at the Marriott Long Wharf. Our room had a view of a beautiful little park and of the water. It was right on the T, and close enough to the North End that we could walk to a great Italian meal. Also right on the water, so convenient to whale watching and the aquarium. The rooms were very comfortable as well. We would definitely stay there again.

Thanks yk,

ttt again. We're here to serve!

we love the Taj (the old Ritz Carlton). The location is perfect and the prices are usually reasonable for such a high end property. The rooms need a little face lift,but they are essentially old Ritz carlton rooms.

The fairmont coppley is also another good one-- old world style. For newer, hipper and still reasonable, I like Jurys.

for a splurge, we stayed once in a harbor view room at the Boston Harbor Hotel and it was fantastic. Just gorgeous. For slightly less, I like the Fairmont Copley and the Colonnade. Both are convenient locations and nice hotels.

For slightly outside the city, I've always liked the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge. Its not as convenient to mass transit as it could be, though they do have shuttle. But the river view rooms are lovely. The Charles Hotel in Harvard square is another really nice, though pricey, option.

We live far out enough from Boston that we like to stay overnight at least a few times a year for our anniversary, dinner with friends or a Red Sox game. So we have stayed in a few hotels despite considering ourselves locals.

In no particular order:

The Lenox - it is charming and beautifully decorated. Small enough to be personal but large enough to have the services you want. Location is great and yet despite all that it is never my first choice though I am not really sure why. Parking is quite expensive.

The Colonade - we haven't stayed here in a few years but have dined at Brasserie Jo fairly frequently. When we did stay I really loved it. - It was the little touches that made the difference, like the rubber ducky by the bathtub and the umbrella in the closet.

Hilton Back Bay - if you get a good price its really fine. Some rooms are better than others even if in the same category. One room was decorated in a post modern kind of way - the bath had a very large walkin shower though no tub. I loved it because I'm not a bath person at home and would rather die than use a bathtub in a hotel. There was an enourmous window overlooking the dome of the Christian Science church. Another room was deocorated in a more fussy chintz sort of way and was in need of updating but it had a balcony overlooking the Back Bay and the Charles River, so who can complain about that.

Westin Copley - very nice, great location, good room.

Sheraton Prudential - its big, very big. I always feel rushed when I'm there - maybe because of all the large convention groups bustling around. On the other hand it is very convenient especially with children.

Intercontinental - we stayed right after it opened. The rooms were beautiful and the bathroom very large. Huge closet. View was so so. We loved the spa and pool area.

Marriott Long Wharf - waterfront location is great but its a pretty big impersonal place.

Hyatt - thin walls but a good location if you are going to the Opera House. Otherwise take a pass until you get a dirt cheap rate.

since this is about what hotels we want to hear about, I'd like to add that I'm very curious about the Elliot and the new Liberty Hotel. I've never stayed at either, but they should definitely be included.

My friends stayed at the Eliot last year, because one was attending a conference @ Hynes, and they have a dog with them (Eliot is pet-friendly).

I went to visit them in their room, and I have to say, the room seems very small. It looks nice and luxurious, but just not much space to move around.

For budget minded but still want to be car-free, I love the John Jeffries (but you already know all about it - although the reviews need to be updated).

I also like to stay at B&B's in Cambridge - a residential feel but walking distance to T stops, and often less expensive. Like and have stayed at Irving House near much of Harvard. There's also its "partner" Harding House (equidistant to Harvard and Central Sq). "A Cambridge B&B" is pricey but pretty and very convenient, and there are a few more I haven't stayed at because they're a bit more upscale but would be happy to given the chance, located along Prospect and Ellery St..

BTW, today is Dr. Jeffries' 265th birthday, and also chosen as National Weathermen's Day in honor of his pioneering activities in meteorology.

I work in Boston and am familiar with just about every property. I am surprised by the Marriott Longwharf being mentioned many times here. Perhaps it is that they cater to the 'tourist' It would never even hit my radar as a destination. It is to Boston what the Marriott Marquis is to Time Square - strange impersonal public areas.

In the warm months I would stay waterfront. In the winter months I would stay Backbay/Copley area.

I am surprised that the old dame Park Plaza is not on the list. It is tired, but a landmark has for years hosted the presidents since it is very secret service friendly.

Also is the new Mandarin Oriental.

And the soon to open W on Stuart and Tremont.

I appreciate the little gems that have been included.

We are visiting Boston this summer so appreciate this help. Thank you.

Sandy

I see the Park Plaza is included under Boston Park Plaza - my bad!

Sandy, Boston is a wonderful city and destination. If you have time you could include a seaside visit north or south. There is a fantastic community here on fodors with loads of advice in all things Boston/New England.

Hi Bostonians and Boston visitors,

Thank you for this excellent feedback. I've passed your recommendations on to our Boston editor so she can work with our updater to visit and review the properties we don't already include on our site, and in the Boston book.

Many thanks for helping us to make Fodor's better!

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Warmly,
Erica