Inspiration

What this section is for

Not every read needs a booking at the end of it. The Inspiration section collects the ideas that make hospitality interesting, how a lobby becomes a living room, how a hotel restaurant earns a following of locals, how a property collaborates with artists or folds a city's culture into its corridors. Boston, with its universities, museums and stubborn sense of history, is fertile ground for all of it.

The sub-sections cover interior design, gastronomy, event planning, cultural integration and artistic collaborations. Together they answer a simple question: what separates a place you sleep from a place you remember?

Turning inspiration into a stay

When an idea makes you want to experience it first-hand, the Boston hotel guides show which neighbourhoods concentrate the properties doing interesting work, and the 50 places to eat and drink in and around Boston hotels maps the food scene worth crossing town for. To shape loose inspiration into an actual plan, our day-by-day itinerary planner does the structuring for you, and the free tools hub holds the rest of our planning kit.