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A Boston hotel guide built on neighborhoods, sources and dates

Stay In Boston covers one city and one question: where to sleep in it. Every guide starts with the neighborhood rather than the brand, every figure we publish carries the source it came from and the date it was measured, and the way we work is written down rather than promised.

Neighborhood firstWe compare where you sleep before we compare hotels: one guide per Boston neighborhood, each with its own criteria and its own shortlist.Browse the neighborhood guides →
Figures with a sourceOccupancy, room supply, visitor origin, seasonality: each number in our data files is attributed to a named source and dated.Read the Boston data files →
Prices measured, not estimatedA fixed basket — room rate, the three statutory lodging taxes, one night of downtown parking — re-measured on the same basis each period.See how Boston prices move →
Our method, in writingWhich sources we use and in what order, what we verify, how the lists are built, and how commercial relationships are labelled.Read our working method →

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Where to stay in Boston, neighborhood by neighborhood, plus the shortlists and price data our editors keep up to date.

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