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Pose with Chris Cooper’s Oscar at the Langham Boston’s Academy Awards Party

Oscars time is right around the corner, and if you’re dying to see whether Meryl will beat out Sandra for best actress or whether Avatar will sweep all the categories, watch the show in style. This week, we’ll look at Academy-sanctioned hotel shindigs where you’ll be able to dress up, see if you won the office Oscar pool and help raise cash …

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An Inn in Boston Tries a ‘Radical Experiment’

The first Check In, Check Out review for 2010 sees the New York Times jumping up and down about the radical experiment in reimagining the hotel going on at Bostons The Inn at St. Botolph The radical part? Offering stylish, well-located rooms! What a game-changer! Quick, someone call Fox News!


OK, not yet. Keep reading the Times review and youll find that not everything is rosy at the Inn at …

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The Copley Square Hotel Adds a ‘Sheet Tangling’ Session to The Bar Menu

Whether its a reaction to the frigid cold, or to the New York Times calling it perfectly nice, Bostons Copley Square Hotel is sexing itself up by adding an item called the Overnighter to the menu at its bar, minibar. (As in, the public bar in the hotel, not the teensy fridge in your room.)


So after youve had a few …

We checked in on a snowy winter Sunday to give the hotels Girls in the City package a whirl. The deal includes a night in a Commonwealth Room (similar to a junior suite), a gift box of Fresh bath products, Frette robes and slippers to use during the stay, a $50 gift card to spend at the hotels Eastern Standard restaurant, a pre-loaded Charlie Card to use on the T, and a late check-out (3 p.m.)


What We Liked
The big, cozy beds, the space, and the polished but relaxed feel …

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Inside The Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel in Boston

Last week we revisited our old stomping grounds in Boston and decided to shack up at the
Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel. With all these new hotels in town (like the Ames and the W), our Boston hotel standards have been ratcheted up quite a bit. Yet the Fairmont didn’t wow us.
It wasn’t that we didn’t have a pleasant stay, we did. It isn’t that …