Howard’s place is exceptional for 1-2 people visiting Boston. Unlike most other private rooms, we have a private bathroom. There’s no other guests sharing anything with us and Howard left the entire first floor for us, making the experience more of a rental unit. Also, it is extremely quite day and night (if the window AC unit is turned off.) It’s not directly open to the street, so we can even sleep undisturbed util the noon.
Howard’s place is ~10 minutes walk to the subway station and Boston does have a very connected subway system, so it’s more convenient than I thought commuting to places like MIT.