| If you're looking for hotels near Fenway Park, home of | | | | next door. |
| the Boston Red Sox, you can find several wonderful | | | | Hotel Commonwealth (500 Commonwealth Ave) is at |
| choices right in the Fenway neighborhood. They range | | | | the opposite end of the spectrum. With 150 spacious |
| from simple and affordable to luxurious and pricey. I'm | | | | rooms overlooking either Fenway Park or leafy |
| going to tell you about two of the best: an inexpensive | | | | park-like Commonwealth Avenue Mall, it's one of the |
| but comfortable hotel with a view (from some rooms) | | | | city's top luxury hotels. You'll find every luxurious touch |
| of the Park, and a luxury hotel that ranks among | | | | imaginable in the Hotel Commonwealth...high quality |
| Boston's finest. Both are places where you may want | | | | imported linens, down comforters and pillows, high |
| to stay whenever you're in Boston, whether or not | | | | definition TVs, CD/DVD players, complementary |
| you're in town to see the Red Sox play. | | | | high-speed internet access and VOIP, plus a DVD |
| Hotel Buckminster (645 Beacon Street, Fenway, | | | | lending library. |
| Boston) may be your top choice if you're looking for a | | | | Even your dog will be welcome at this pet-friend hotel. |
| hotel that's as close as possible to the ball park plus an | | | | If you're in town for a Red Sox game, Fenway Park is |
| equally short walk from all of the surrounding | | | | only 2 short blocks away. One of the Fenway |
| restaurants and bars near Fenway. It's also one of the | | | | neighborhood's top seafood restaurants, Great Bay, is |
| most affordable hotels in the entire city. Built in 1897, | | | | located right in the hotel, and you'll find other excellent |
| Hotel Buckminster is a traditional "flat-iron," or triangular | | | | choices nearby. |
| shaped building with an attractive rounded front. | | | | Both the Hotel Buckminster and Hotel Commonwealth |
| Famed architect Stanford White designed it to be one | | | | are near Boston University, some of the city's best |
| of the first hotels in Boston. | | | | museums and concert halls, and the Colleges of the |
| Although the lobby may remind you a bit of your | | | | Fens. Shopping along swanky Newbury Street in |
| college dorm, the Buckminster's reception staff is | | | | Boston's Back Bay neighborhood is just a few blocks |
| friendly, welcoming. and helpful. With only 70 rooms | | | | away. Downtown Boston, Beacon Hill, and the historic |
| and 24 suites, the hotel is small and homey. Rooms | | | | Freedom Trail are also within walking distance, but with |
| are comfortable and simply furnished. Best of all, you | | | | a subway, or "T" as it's called in Boston, stop nearby, |
| can see Fenway's Green Monster from some of the | | | | you can easily ride to other parts of the city. Whether |
| rooms at the back. And no wonder - the Park is only a | | | | you choose the affordable Buckminster or the |
| block and a half away! You'll find several casual | | | | luxurious Commonwealth, both of these popular hotels |
| restaurants on Beacon Street within a block of the | | | | near Fenway Park are ideally located near many of |
| Hotel Buckminster, and a popular karaoke-sushi spot is | | | | Boston's most interesting areas. |