When I went last September I stayed at the Boston Park Plaza which is next to Boston Common. If you bid on a hotel through Priceline you've got a good chance of ending up with that one. It's also got good access to the trains - green line will take you to Fenway. I actually walked back to the hotel after the game (I somehow missed the subway station at Fenway so I just kept walking rather than trying to get on a train at the next station) and it only took about 20 minutes. Regardless the subway in Boston is super easy to use. If you're there for a few days you can buy a weekly MBTA pass - it was $15 when I was there.
Things to do: the Fenway tour is good, walking the Freedom Trail is alright and can be done in about half a day. The Samuel Adams brewery has a tour but it was kind of disappointing - they don't really brew much in that location anymore. I'm a nerd so I went out to Cambridge and visited Harvard and MIT.
|