Boston University Hotel Recommendations

gingerlenny
Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:46:08 +0000

Thanks everyone. We ended up staying at the Courtyard (Coolidge Corner) in Brookline. Total price, including parking ($40), was just under $200. We parked around 11 and took the T in for our tour at 1:30 on Saturday (we had lunch first on Newbury Street - and looked at the fancy shops). It was raining and windy, but DS still loved the info. session and the tour. He had us on the T maybe 5 times that day - he does love trains (and we bought an unlimited 24 hr ticket); I think the reason he’s so focused on BU is the public transportation. We were touristy and went to Quincy Market, and headed to the North end (after walking over the buried highway - again, he’s a transportation fiend) for cannoli, and then to the Holocaust memorial on the way to the Haymarket station, and then took the T back to the hotel.

DS also totally loved Brookline (we had breakfast at Zaftigs today). I think he’s not only in love with BU but also in love with Boston in general.

Now he just needs to research to see if there’s enough Urban Planning classes for him - that’s his current area of interest - but it looks like Urban Planning is a Minor in the Political Science department. That may work. He also loves Latin. Interestingly, the student who spoke at our info. session was a Poli Sci and Classics major.

But back on topic - hotel was clean, quiet, so close to the T, easy to park, in a lovely location. Not inexpensive (though it seems relatively inexpensive for Boston), but it really worked for us.

Edited to add: for the $40 parking fee you could drive in and out of the garage, but we dropped the car and didn’t grab it til the next day on our way home.

Thanks again.