I used to live in the area and was back visiting friends with my 9 year old daughter for the week. The priorities on my list looking for a place to stay were:
1. Affordability
2. Cleanliness
3. Location proximity to places I’d be visiting
4. Air conditioning (because it’s July is all over the temp map in Boston)
What I got were all of those things. It was affordable given all I was looking for ✔️. The room was fresh and clean with all I needed ✔️. The location was right where I needed and it had a window unit✔️✔️.
*My only POSSIBLE complaint is the noise level I wouldn’t have gotten in a hotel, but I wasn’t willing to pay what Boston hotels want for a room to not hear city noise. The noise wasn’t a deal breaker, but here’s more info for anyone concerned: the room is right on the front of the building on the ground floor by the front doors. People coming and going wasn’t so much an issue as it was traffic driving over the steel plate at the cross section of the busy cross street, as well as city noises in general that are absorbed by the room being in the front of the building. Additionally, the people residing above the room walk heavily all hours of the night. Again, these were not deal breakers, but definitely something to consider.