Hi all.
Well, actually I want to go with my husband to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 18. We’ve been to Boston, but never stayed in that area. (South Boston). We usually stay in Cambridge. This year I want to surprise him by taking him to the parade. Is there a clean, reasonable place to stay that is VERY close to the parade route? We don’t want to stay far from the area, what with all the drinking and carrying on that we expect to do. We prefer to walk rather than take a cab. Plan on arriving on Saturday the 17th, and leaving on Monday morning the 19th. So, all you Boston dopers, give us some ideas!!!
Clean?
In Boston?
On St Patty’s Day?
Bwuuuhahahahaha!!
There is a Holiday Inn Express at the end of the parade route. That’s probably clean and reasonably priced, but I wouldn’t stay there. I would stay somewhere nice downtown (there are deals to be had on Hotwire and Priceline) and take a cab back from whatever pub I ended up at. You don’t want to walk around Southie drunk late at night.
Edited to add: Actually, walking around Southie sober late at night isn’t a good idea either. South Boston is not the nicest area.
Is the Harding House Bed & Breakfast still in business? See my post from 2008, [post=9609215]here[/post]
Don’t stay too close to the parade route, it’s not a pleasant place to be on St Paddy’s day late into the night. Boston is very easy to walk, taxi, or take the T; get a place near downtown and enjoy.
Moved Cafe Society --> IMHO.
Seconding/thirding/fourthing/whatever what other folks are saying - don’t stay on the parade route. Get a nice hotel somewhere on the Red Line. EASY subway ride to/from the parade and enough peace and quiet to be able to sleep off all the beer.
Make sure you wear a Yankees jersey.
It was the word ‘reasonable’ thrown in there that got me lauging.
OP, why do you need to be close to the parade? Do you just want to watch from the hotel room window? Boston isn’t that big. I’ll walk across the bridge from Cambridge, and I have bad knees and am lazy as all get-out.
Karen, Best Westerns are always a good place to stay, fair in prices too.
IF you have time, walk the Freedom Trial. I have been to Boston 2 times. Just down the street from the state Capitol building on Boston Common is Old Granary burial ground.
There are 3 signers of the Declaration of Independence buried there. John Hancock, Samuel Adams and Robert Treat Paine.
Paul Revere is also buried there, as well as Benjamin Franklin’s parents.
If you get time, drive down to Quincy where the 2 Adams’ President’s are buried, and thier birth houses are open to tour also.
Salem, the Witch city, just about 20 miles north was something else.
I toured witch trial Magistrate Jonathan Corwin’s home, and also the House of the 7 Gables. Hawthorne’s birth home is right next to the Gables, having been moved from another part of the city.