The Beacon Street Studio was very spacious and comfortable, and other than a couple of hiccups we really enjoyed our stay there. The space is very large for a studio with soaring ceilings and large beautiful bay windows that let in lots light, so when in the apartment we never felt cramped. The windows also opened to let in the cool bay breeze, which turned out to be crucial. It is in a perfect location, close to the shops and bars on Newbury / Boylston and a couple of subway stops, but still on a very quiet street. The windows are double-paned type, so when closed they completely block out any sound from the street. The furniture is stylish and very functional, with tons of storage space plus hanging space in the closet, both of which we appreciated since we like to unpack during our stay. The Murphy bed was also great, allowing us to flip the bed out of the way during the day. Everything was incredibly clean, and everything in the bathroom worked great as did the WiFi. Eva was communicative and provided us everything we could expect from a property manager. I think we would still stay here again even with our little issues, we'd just plan things a bit differently.
We would have given this place a solid five stars but for a couple of minor issues. The unit was very hot when we first arrived in spite of cool temperatures outside, and the window unit air conditioner hadn't been installed yet. We opened the windows at night which helped some but the place was surprisingly slow to cool off and with the windows open the noise from passing trucks in the early morning was bothersome. We left the windows open all of the next day and the place STILL hadn't cooled off to what one would expect given the temperature outside, and window unit still hadn't been installed, so I had to do it myself so that we could sleep. Not my idea of a fun vacation activity! To Eva's credit she was very communicative throughout the process and walked me through the trick required to get the power cord past the radiator over to the outlet. The other issue, typical of renting the ever-proliferating managed investment property rather than someone's home was that the manager was not willing to give us a late check-out or let us leave our luggage on the property (she did offer a late check-out with an exorbitant fee) even though at the time we discussed it there was no one checking in the day we were checking out. But again, she did provide so tips on how to find a place to store our luggage. The luggage storage turned out to be an annoying fiasco, and definitely left us missing the personal touch offered by owner-occupants vs. property managers, when friendly owners would stash your stuff wherever they were crashing and offer to drive you to the airport or train station in the process. Airbnb is definitely not what it used to be five or ten years ago!