Mechaal’s place is everything that all of the reviews say: clean, close to both the airport and downtown Boston, comfortable bed. Mechaal himself is a most gracious host: let us check in a little early, and was at the place to greet us and show us the locks and the arrangement of things. The snacks were much appreciated!
My only caveat on recommending Mechaal’s place concerns those with fragrance allergies, which my partner has. I think the place had just been cleaned before we arrived, and it had a very heavy cleaning product smell. I also lost track of how many pods, sticks, bowls of scented items there were in the place, one in the bedroom beside a can of febreeze. Even the sheets (detergent? Softener?) were very heavy on fragrance. Mechaal and his place are lovely, but if you have fragrance allergies, you’ll want to take that into account.