PRICE:
Frommer's Recommended

This is a textbook example of a hotel style I call "budget boutique": Rooms and bathrooms are small, amenities few, and prices reasonable. In a great location in the pricey Back Bay, Hotel 140 is a deal. The contemporary-style hotel opened in 2005 in a renovated former YWCA that dates to 1929. Rooms are on the fifth through seventh floors of the 14-story building that houses (among other things) the offices of the "Y," which owns the hotel. Each simply decorated room has a full-size or twin-size bed, without much extra space, but the hotel consistently fills with leisure and thrifty business travelers. Its main competitor is the John Hancock Hotel, a block away, which is roughly comparable but more traditional in style.

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

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