Pros:
- the location is awesome. 10 minutes walk to Newbury street for all the restaurants and bubble tea shops. 20 minutes walk Boston common and public garden. 2 minutes walk to the prudential center T station. 5 minutes walk to a grocery store (one of the Duck Tour departure spot is right outside). Right in the middle for all activities and it was still nice and quite at night.
- SO MUCH SPACE. There is even more space than what’s shown on the pictures. There are two bedrooms which each has a queen sized bed. The beds are super comfortable. And there is a small room with door assigned as WFH space that can fit an air mattress. The living room also has a pull out couch (not the most comfortable one tho). We only had a family of four but all the extra space was super nice for the kids to spread out.
- roof top pool is very nice. Across the street is a sprinkler play area and my kids loved it.
- parking was easier than I expected. The building has a garage and we did multi day parking for $25 a day. It is valet parking but you still has in and out privilege just need to call ahead and they will bring your car. There are also lots of street metered parking around the block too.
- checking in and out was easy through lock box. The cleaners were still there at our check in time so we got the keys from them but for checking out we just did the lock box. Super easy.
- I mentioned that we are traveling with a baby and I arrived to find a crib fully set up in one of the bedrooms!!! It was super awesome!
Cons:
- a keurig machine with some K cups would do wonders in the morning. There is ground coffee and French press tho.
- there are cheaper options in the same area. But we decided to pay the price for all that extra space
- kitchen was not big but adequate. Dining space was only a small table in the living room. With kids we like to eat breakfast at home before the day of activities so the small dining space made it a bit difficult.
- the work space has a large table with monitor and printer. But the ink cartridges were too low to print. Not a super big deal for us so we didn’t reach out to the owners.
- having wine glasses would be nice.