Boston Hotel

Tales of a Mini Bar #17

The Hotel Boston is a very good mid-market hotel and perhaps in some areas aspiring to be a really classy joint. As they say first impressions are so important and here the first impression is of class with the usual Italian hints of flair. The reception area positivitely gleams, from its marbled floor, to the mirrored ceiling, as does the desk clerk's welcome.

Check-in is swift with my passport being exchanged for a huge paperweight of a keyholder with the instruction to swap back if I go out - I am not going to forget that this is in my pocket!!!

The room itself is immaculate, tasteful, modern and provided with almost everything I need for my overnight stay. There is no in-room internet facility which is a bit of an oversight for such a modern hotel and nor is there coffee-making facilities. There is however - A MINI BAR !!!

The hotel brochure on the desk is quite brief but does have a useful city map and there is a "coffee-table" type hardcover brochure from the local tourist board singing the city's praises in glorious technicolour and 2 languages.

Unique Quality: Those that know me will recognise where this is going, for those that don't, let me briefly explain my hotel routine. (It's a comfort thing!)

On arrival at a hotel the first thing I do is search out the coffee-making faciliies (if available), then light a cigarette, make the coffee and sit to read the hotel gumph with my cigarette and my coffee.

And so, here there is no coffee machine, but I do have a mini-bar, this I can live with. I open the mini-bar and it looks pretty well-stocked to me: aperatifs, nightcap and breakfast all sorted. Hmmm, perhaps not - a thorough search, reading every bottle's label, reveals that there are 2, and 2 only, beers in this so-called mini-bar and that everything else is either water or is non-alcoholic - YIKES!

This wasn't actually a major disaster really as the night clerk was more than happy to get a couple of beers from the bar when I returned later evening. Also the internet thing wasn't a problem either as the lobby has a complimentary machine.

All, in all, this was an excellent hotel, and should I ever be in this neck of the woods again will definitely be first on my list.

• Opinion of Price: less expensive than average
• Related to: Trains, Road Trip, Beer Tasting

Boston Hotel Photo: View from 6th Storey Window

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