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Boston hotels?
Question: Boston hotels?
Going to Boston for a week for a course in Dorchester. I would like to stay in downtown Boston with access to subway. What areas should i look at where it is safe, and under $ 200. What hotels would you recommend?
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Best answer:
Answer by ShouldBeWorking
Try the Raddison. They often have the most economical rates, and are within a 5 minute walk from a few train stops. They have a great restaurant too!
Finewhine… has this thing in some of her answers for stating that certain downtown Boston neighborhoods are dangerous that are in fact no worse than others. The area around the Radisson is such. In fact, the hotel backs up against one of Boston’s toniest, architecturally preserved and protected neighborhoods (Bay Village) and it fronts on the Park Square area and the Theatre District with its restaurants and another hotel and well lit and travelled streets. Not that there is not some crime but Finewhin… exaggerates, and most of Boston is quite safe for an American city.
Also, as K. Chick points out the Copley Place Marriott is not downtown, it is uptown (and the Hilton is even farther uptown) but the Marriott sits right on top of an Orange Line subway station, and it is only 5-15 minutes (depending on if you have to wait for a train), not 20-25, to get to the Red Line. (Boston subway hint: the Orange Line and Green Line run within a couple of blocks of each other all the way from North Station to the Museum of Fine Arts. The Green Line is a slow, often backed up, trolley car line while the Orange Line is subway trains. The Orange Line is faster and better 95% of the time.)