About Stay In Boston

Stay In Boston covers hotels and staying in Boston. Not New England, not the East Coast, not travel in general — one city, in depth. That narrowness is the point. Boston is a small, dense, awkwardly shaped city where the difference between two hotels four streets apart is the difference between walking everywhere and taking the T twice a day. A general travel site cannot afford to care about that. We can.

Who this is for

People who have already decided to come to Boston and are now deciding where to sleep. They arrive here from a search that names a neighbourhood, a hotel or a set of dates, which means they are past the daydreaming stage. Some are coming for the first time and do not yet know that Back Bay and the Seaport are different cities in temperament. Some come every year for work and want to know what has opened since the last trip. Both need specifics rather than atmosphere.

What we publish

• Neighbourhood guidance — where to base yourself for what you actually came to do, and what each area costs you in walking time.
• Hotel coverage — buildings, histories, signature features, and what distinguishes one address from the one next door.
• Seasonal reporting — what changes in Boston between April and December, and what that does to availability and rates.
• The Data Room — the measured, sourced version: occupancy, rates, visitor numbers, the calendar behind them.
• The TOP 50 lists — long, verified lists of the hotels and tables that make the city.
• Free tools — small calculators and planners that answer a question with your inputs rather than a generic list.

How the site is funded

Stay In Boston is a commercial publication and we would rather say so plainly than let you work it out. Our revenue comes from three places: partnerships with brands, hotels and destination bodies; advertising and sponsored content; and affiliate arrangements with booking platforms, where a booking made through a link can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

What follows from that, in practice:

• Anything paid for is labelled as paid, in the piece itself, not in a policy page nobody reads.
• A commercial relationship does not buy a place in an editorial selection. Our TOP 50 lists carry no paid entries, and we say so on the lists themselves.
• Where a link can earn us a commission, we mark it.
• We would rather turn down a partnership than publish a recommendation we could not defend to a reader who acted on it.

Those are commitments about our process, and we would rather be held to them than to a slogan. If you find a piece where we have failed one of them, tell us — the correction will be more useful to the next reader than our embarrassment is to us.

Getting it wrong, and fixing it

Hotels close, restaurants change hands, rooftops stop opening on Mondays. A city publication decays quietly unless somebody maintains it, and the readers who notice first are always the ones who were standing outside the door. If something here is out of date or simply wrong, write to us. We would rather be corrected this week than be wrong for a year, and we do not treat a correction as a defeat.

Working with us

If you run a hotel, a restaurant or a destination body in Boston, or you work with one, our media kit page sets out the ways we work with partners and how to reach us. If you have a story rather than a budget — an opening, a renovation, a piece of the city's hospitality history nobody has written down — that is also worth an email.