My husband and I stayed at Barbara’s place with my 60 year old mom and our 4 year old daughter. We all had a great experience which I will explain in details:
Generally, the place is clean and tidy, the location is awesome, 5 minute walk to the T station and 2 minute walk to public bikes. The hosts are kind and responsive at the same time not intruding at all. They were very nice to us and helped us find good restaurants and even let us leave some of our heavy luggage at their floor.
If you work remotely: WiFi was great and my Zoom meetings went smoothly and with no glitch. There were a desk/ working station in each room so my husband and I both could do our work
If you need a kitchen:
There is a small fridge, a microwave oven, tea and coffee maker there and there are dish washing stuff near the bathroom sink. You may not be able to cook but you can definitely warm up food or make some breakfast if you need to.
If you travel with a car: we had our car and the resident permit section right in front of their house was always available. We used their Summerville 3 day permit which meant that we could’ve even not moved the car if we wished to. That being said, we were there in August 21, I’m not sure about the ease of parking in any other season.
If you travel with a kid: Barbara’s place was awesome for our 4 year old. She has a collection of great toys and games for her own grandchildren which kept my daughter busy for hours. There is a day bed under the window that my daughter used as her nook and enjoyed the bunk beds as well. I was careful that she doesn’t make too much noise after 9:30 but hopefully your kids sleep before that , mine just doesn’t 😄
If you travel with a senior citizen (don’t tell my mom I said that!) : there are 3 flights of stairs to get to your rooms which might be difficult for an elderly. My mom however was fine as we would mostly use the stairs two or three times a day.
The bottom line: we were from three different generations with different expectations and we all enjoyed staying at Barbara’s and will definitely go back there if we are staying Boston.