Our stay in this Beacon Hill apt was ideal. We stayed for a long weekend since my son had to move into a freshman dorm. The location was perfect for us, a 5 min drive from the university, within walking distance of cafes and shops right on Cambridge St. (Antonio’s Italian next door is good and reasonably priced). There was a Whole Foods supermarket 2 blocks away (we cooked some meals at the apt.), and a Target 4 blocks away on Cambridge St. and you are also about 4 short blocks from St. Charles street lined with shops and cafes, and in total about a 20 min walk from the Boston Public Gardens, where St. Charles meets Beacon St. Boston’s Central Park.
Make sure you open the kitchen windows cooking. We set off the smoke alarm once, it’s super sensitive, and we are nearly chefs in the kitchen, but no biggie. It’s easy to turn off with the button in the center. Good to know they work!
Inside the place was spacious, tasteful, well lit, and clean and had everything we needed to cook, a smart TV, a well stocked bathroom and lots of fresh towels. My 80 year old active mom was able to go up or down the one flight of stairs to the apt., slowly. Check in and check out we’re smooth and simple.
You are near a cluster of hospitals so you will hear the occasional ambulance rushing by, or helicopter landing, but we didn’t mind. The parking however, was tough.
There is a parking lot over by the Whole Foods and Santander bank, connected to a hospital where we parked the first night with a car loaded with dorm stuff ($54 for 3-24 hours), and then the rest of the time we fed meters between 8am-8pm, 2 hours for $5, free on Sunday, but finding a spot is tough. We sometimes parked right out front, or several blocks away. Much of the parking on the side streets is only resident parking, but if you don’t mind walking a bit, parking can be found. The furthest I was away was two blocks and I kept an eye on my time if we were home longer than the 2 hours, but most of the time we were out and about parking in other parts of the city so I wasn’t necessarily home running out to feed a meter. The parking is a general Boston Problem, not a Beacon Hill problem.
Take your recycle bags with you everywhere. You are charged for plastic bags and it’s strict! No crime. Felt safe out at night in this posh neighborhood. Reminds me of DC’s Georgetown crossed with Soho NY.
And lastly the hosts respond within a nano second, so communication was excellent. We didn’t bother them much, just check in & check out. I highly recommend it, and we hope to return!