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Frommer's Highly Recommended

Contemporary yet conservative, this meticulously designed hotel delivers 21st-century technology in an Art Deco package. Like other downtown lodgings, it draws business travelers during the week and leisure travelers on weekends. The 14-story building is near Faneuil Hall Marketplace and the waterfront, but not all that close (by bratty Bostonian standards) to the T. The spacious guest rooms have 9 1/2-foot ceilings and cordless two-line phones. The best units, on the upper floors, afford great views of the harbor and downtown. Soundproofing throughout makes the whole building -- even the halls -- exceptionally quiet. A rehab of a 1928 building, the Hilton opened in 1999 as the Wyndham Boston and was reflagged in 2006. The closest competitor, literally and figuratively, is the Langham, which is less convenient to public transit but has a swimming pool.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Boston 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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