Hotels near Boston Public Library - Central Library, Boston

We loved staying at this Kimpton Marlowe! It was conveniently located in Cambridge just 5 minutes away from the main Downton Boston/North End area. Upon arriving, the gentleman at the front took our bags right away and placed them for us inside. Heidy, at check-in, was SUPER nice and helped accommodate our needs. She went above and beyond during our check in and check out to ensure that we had an excellent and comfortable stay. Our room was super clean, modern, beautiful, bright, and spacious. The room was nice and cool. The beds were SUPER comfortable. There was a fridge. We called down to have coffee machine brought up and they brought it right away. Our view overlooked a beautiful garden and the downtown Boston area. We asked Khalid where we should go for dinner celebrations that night and he kindly offered us a few suggestions that he thought we would like. The hotel is a short walk from downtown and a moderate walk to Harvard Square/Somerville. There is a reserved entrance, so it's super easy to get into Ubers. There's also a CVS/mall closeby in case you need to pick up any items that you need. We went down to the restaurant for brunch one day and we had a great time. The food was amazing; great selection offered. Our server was AMAZING - so nice, so responsive, so attentive (probably one of the best that we had in Boston)- and the overall dining experience was wonderful. There was another woman who helped us on our second day with extending our trip, which was very helpful. Overall: great location (close to Harvard square, go-to spots in Cambridge, and downtown Boston). Walkable. Easy to get an Uber. Close to stores. GREAT rooms (comfortable bed, spacious, bright, cool). Great amenities (coffee maker, fridge, microwave if you need, happy hour, coffee hour in the AM), and super friendly staff (Heidy, Khalid, everyone else at the front desk - sorry didn't catch your names!! -, the servers at the restaurant), and the restaurant too. Definitely recommend!

I have been coming to this LaQuinta for 3 years now and the experience gets better and better. I would say cleanliness was tops, my room was fantastic I would say the location of the toilet paper roll could be better spot than where mine was in 210. Other than that, the room was clean and I had full amenities in my room, had a desk to work, the bed was great and presentation was great. Great internet, only trick with my Mac had to force the sign on screen, but that is a common issue if you travel. Love the location you are walking distance to the T on the Orange Line and so many good restaurants.

The hotel is a landmark building with a grand and luxurious appearance. The rooms are 60 square meters in size and are very spacious, clean and tidy with complete facilities. The sea view rooms have a wide view and great scenery. The big windmill is very distinctive. The hotel covers a large area with good landscaping. The first floor is very popular. The Cantonese restaurant on the first floor is suitable for the taste of Guangdong people and the products are also of high standard. It is a very comfortable and satisfying hotel to stay in!

Clean and comfy. Appreciated the breakfast which had hot food (scrambled eggs , sausage make own waffles as well as pastries/bagels/cereals/yogurt/fruits - Used their airport shuttle. But a bit noisy from vehicles on the street. Didn’t sleep well.

The hotel is new and the lobby is warm on a cold and rainy day. The good thing about a new hotel is that the walk-in shower is very convenient. The bad thing is that as soon as you enter the room, there are two bottles of water, and the discount for each bottle is 3 US dollars, which is really outrageous.

I stayed at this hotel from 9/13 - 9/15 of 2024. When we arrived, our hotel room smelled very strongly like smoke and especially ****. I called the front desk and the man working set a maintenance man up to spray some carpet cleaner. However, in an hour the smell was back. The bathroom had the strongest odor and the shower curtain reeked so terribly of smoke, it gave us headaches. I don't understand how the maids didn't say anything or remove the shower curtain and attempt to rid the room of the smell. I just got home and my entire suitcase and all my clothes smell like smoke and ****. Also, on Saturday when I went for breakfast. There was no coffee creamer left and when I asked about it, I was told they were out, and the lady at the front desk seemed very unbothered by it. She was busy scrolling through her personal phone, than caring about the customers needs. I thought the hotel was nice, but a few of the staff were rude/or seemed more concerned with their phones, then performing their jobs. I have terrible allergies and the room smell has lingered with me. I'm glad I didn't have my children with me as the smell would have caused me to leave the hotel and find a room elsewhere, but as I was with an adult, I just dealt with it, but I wish now that I had left and found another hotel.

The good: Room was reasonably clean and the beds were satisfactory and the front desk staff were very nice. However overall the room was in poor repair and the sink and closet areas were tiny (see photo) and absolutely unacceptable for a room with even 1 guest let alone the 4 it could legally house. The sink area had no room for toiletries so fixing hair and makeup had to occur at the weird desk area with a hand mirror and horrible lighting as there was no mirror at all in the bedroom area. The sink and closet were a fraction of the size shown in the website pictures. Our luggage had to stay in the room floor because there was no way it fit in the closet. Electrical outlets over the only bedside table (between the double beds) were so loose they wouldn’t hold the plugs in place to our CPAPs so we had to run the cords across the mattress behind the pillows from wall plugs on the opposite side of the bed. The hang up button on the phone is broken and stuck all the way down so when we needed to use the room phone we had to pry it up with a nail file to get dial tone. The shower curtain isn’t wide enough to cover the entire shower and kept sagging in the middle causing water in the floor. The towels were incredibly thin and rough as if they were line dried. And the biggest annoyance of all is we had to have our keys reprogrammed multiple times while we were there because according to three different front desk members the keys become deprogrammed if they are placed by a cell phone or other electronic device. We’ve used lots of electronic keys and never had to be sure to segregate our key cards from anything. If the management saw how many people we ran into over the weekend who were annoyed by being unable to get in the rear door or their rooms they would fix that immediately. We were there for a wedding weekend and supposedly got a better block room rate than normal but family who stayed at a nearby Holiday Inn Express had MUCH better rooms, free breakfast, free parking and their rate was significantly less. I am a long time Marriott traveler but would have moved to a different hotel had we been staying for more than 3 days. I keep reading they are going to renovate but I saw no signs of that on the side of the hotel we stayed on although they did appear to be working on a drainage issue in the back.

Stayed for a week at this location. Parking is plentiful and comes at no charge. The property could use a renovation as it's dated and showing the wear of the years. The floors in the room squeak/pop. The room was sufficient, clean, and comfortable. The television had plenty of channels including HBO 1 and 2. Breakfast was pretty good and always well stocked. I'd still stay again if I were in the area, to accumulate Hilton Honors points.

The hotel is very quiet and the breakfast is not very good but the quality is good. Coffee is available throughout the day and is especially suitable for family travel, with a king size bed and a sofa bed. The hotel is located half an hour's drive from the city center (if it takes about 53 minutes to get to and from work). The parking lot is big and you don't have to worry.

Except for the loud noise of the air conditioner fan, everything is good. Free parking, ice machine in the corridor, quiet environment. It is more than 20 miles to drive into downtown Boston. Friendly service, and there are Costco and other dining and shopping areas along the highway.