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XV Beacon Joins The Hypo-Allergenic Craze

Ah, the change of seasons. You can just hear the chestnuts roasting, the pies baking… and the constant sneezing. Yep, it’s allergy season (or cold season, take your pick), but thankfully hotels are coming to sniffly guests’ rescue by providing hypo-allergenic rooms. The latest to get in on the act? Boston’s XV Beacon.


The posh boutique property is the first hotel in Beantown to introduce FDA-cleared devices in hypo-allergenic guests rooms, rolling …

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Stay in the Taj Boston’s $6 Million Suite and Get Your Name on a Building

We’ve seen some crazy-insane hotel packages before, but this one takes the very expensive cake. The Taj Boston is offering a $6 million suite.

What the heck do you get for $6 mil, you ask? For one, you’ll see your name on a new theater at the renowned Boston Conservatory. As the building’s namesake, you’ll also attend …

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Ride The Bolt Bus to Boston, Then Splurge a Little at Renaissance

The Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel has shown off its green credentials before, by ferrying passengers around on pedicabs. Now, it wants to make sure its guests are being eco-friendly before they even land on its doorstep. Thus, a partnership with Bolt Bus.


To encourage folks traveling to the hotel from New York, New Jersey, Philly, Baltimore or D.C. to leave the car at …

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Ride The Bolt Bus to Boston, Then Splurge a Little at Renaissance

The Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel has shown off its green credentials before, by ferrying passengers around on pedicabs. Now, it wants to make sure its guests are being eco-friendly before they even land on its doorstep. Thus, a partnership with Bolt Bus.


To encourage folks traveling to the hotel from New York, New Jersey, Philly, Baltimore or D.C. to leave the car at …

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Four Seasons Boston Is Celebrating International Chocolate Day On Monday. Are You?

Mondays suck. But not next Monday. How can it when it will be International Chocolate Day?


That’s right, September 13 has been designated as a day to bow down to the chocolate godsand who are we to argue? The Bristol Lounge at the Four Seasons Boston is toeing the line and going choc-madwill you?

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Are There any Specific Requirements to Become a Stash Member Hotel?
Grigelevich told us that Stash approached the Lenox a year ago about joining. Apparently, a hotel is audited before being considered for membership to ensure it reaches a service level that fits the Stash standard. Initially, reputation on travel sites like TripAdvisor and Expedia was also a prerequisite for potential members.

But Grigelevich said that now Stash is the one getting approached by hotels, and it can handpick who is qualified based on factors like locations people want to go. As …

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Another Reason Why You Want Hurricane Earl to Slow Down: Cheap Room Rates

Hurricane Earl is striking fear into the hearts of Labor Day vacationers in the Northeast but one hotel is trying to make it fun by offering room rates the price of Earl’s wind speed.
The Back Bay Hotel on Stuart Street in Boston is giving out the room rates to the first people who book from 3pm today to …

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Hotel Guests Evacuated After Electrical Fire at The InterContinental Boston

We seriously hope this isn’t a recurring thing every weekend. Last week it was the W and Willard InterContinental hotels in DC that were evacuated due to an electrical fire and this week it’s the InterContinental Boston. But unlike the DC incident, this fire occurred in the early hours of the morning, forcing guests to evacuate at 2am. They were …

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Party with the Semi Precious Weapons in Boston, and Maybe Lady Gaga Too

Are you heading to see Lady Gaga perform in Boston on the night of July 1 and perhaps hoping that she’ll make an appearance at the hotel after-party like she did in New York? If so, you could be in luck…since The Ames Hotel is inviting the public to the after-party of the Semi Precious Weapons, after …

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Not So Cool: W Boston Files for Bankruptcy

Room 1206 at The W Boston.
The Ritz-Carlton Tahoe may have narrowly avoided foreclosure but we’re not so sure the same thing can be said for W Boston which opened last October as the new “colonial cool” spot in Beantown.
The hotel’s developer, Sawyer Enterprises, has just filed for bankruptcy today and once again, the condo component of the hotel is to blame. …