Anyone been to Boston, Massachusetts

[Chewbacca]

Was there a few years ago. Stayed in the Kimpton Marlowe Hotel in Cambridge which is just over the river. You can catch the Red T outside but it was close enough to walk into Boston if you are reasonably fit. A bunch of 40 somethings managed it no bother.

Would recommend the guided walking tour around the revolutionary sites as long as you can take a few jokes at the Brits expense.

Find a bar that serves Harpoon IPA and drink lots of it. Highly recommended.

 

[Steve0]

Ive been. Thought it was a bit meh if I'm honest.

 

[Caolam]

Thanks everyone for the advice. I will go through it all. We don't have to go to Boston, we have been to New York and just thought Boston might be worth a visit. Might check to see what Washington is like, we will be flying from Dublin so the flight availability might be limited.

 

[Woolly Blue]

I think I've been there.
Yea, I'm pretty sure that's more than a feeling.

 

[abelard]

Do you have to go to Boston? I ask because if you want the most tourist-bang-for-your-buck, I would strongly consider Washington DC (unless you've already been there)

Respectfully, I think this is nuts. Boston is a proper city, one of very few in North America. It has history, character, atmosphere. It is one of the only places in North America that isn't exactly the same as everywhere else (ie: that isn't just a handful of towers and parking lots that disgorge cars at 5 PM headed for endless highways, sprawling identikit housing, and failing strip-malls). And it is one of the only places on the entire continent (bar south of the Rio Grande) where you can actually walk anywhere.

Washington is glorified southern provincial town, which only recently and somewhat unintentionally became cosmopolitan and prosperous, thanks to the explosion in corporate/military political corruption beginning with Reagan. The people are mostly bland and sterile, as is the architecture, save all the propaganda-y bits that look straight out of Pyongyang.

Everyone I know from Europe - where urban standards are inconceivably higher, in general, than North America - has been very disappointed by DC.

 

[verreauxi]

Respectfully, I think this is nuts. Boston is a proper city, one of very few in North America. It has history, character, atmosphere. It is one of the only places in North America that isn't exactly the same as everywhere else (ie: that isn't just a handful of towers and parking lots that disgorge cars at 5 PM headed for endless highways, sprawling identikit housing, and failing strip-malls). And it is one of the only places on the entire continent (bar south of the Rio Grande) where you can actually walk anywhere.

Washington is glorified southern provincial town, which only recently and somewhat unintentionally became cosmopolitan and prosperous, thanks to the explosion in corporate/military political corruption beginning with Reagan. The people are mostly bland and sterile, as is the architecture, save all the propaganda-y bits that look straight out of Pyongyang.

Everyone I know from Europe - where urban standards are inconceivably higher, in general, than North America - has been very disappointed by DC.

Oh please stop with this hyperbole nonsense. If you're not sure what I'm referring to, see every sentence you wrote above.

 

[john jako]

Just go to Tenerife lad and everyone can get off their high horse and stop pretending they been to every state in the land of the doughnut.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Barry Gibb has !!

 

[Username]

I've completed Fallout 4 like.

 

[blue4eva77]

I've completed Fallout 4 like.

Living in Boston made this game much more enjoyable for me. Big fan of the Fallout series and seeing the landmarks and certain details on the game, made it much more pleasing for me.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Someone else mentioned the Garden, and watching the Celtics is worth the price, but presuming you're going in the summer you need to do Fenway unless your wife would hate it. That's proper MLB. I believe @The Esk, rest his soul, took his kid(s) and said it was fabulous. At all times swerve the Patriots and Revs. The travel out to Foxborough is a waste.

If you've got time for the adventure, driving out to the Cape is worthwhile. It can be odd in places though, legit Amity, for better and worse.

 

[abelard]

Someone else mentioned the Garden, and watching the Celtics is worth the price, but presuming you're going in the summer you need to do Fenway unless your wife would hate it. That's proper MLB. I believe @The Esk, rest his soul, took his kid(s) and said it was fabulous. At all times swerve the Patriots and Revs. The travel out to Foxborough is a waste.

If you've got time for the adventure, driving out to the Cape is worthwhile. It can be odd in places though, legit Amity, for better and worse.

Fenway yes, absolutely

Nantucket (a ferry trip from Hyannis on the Cape) is really nice, though a tad pricey, and virtually standing-room-only with tourists in the summer

 

[SerenityNigh]

Fenway yes, absolutely

Nantucket (a ferry trip from Hyannis on the Cape) is really nice, though a tad pricey, and virtually standing-room-only with tourists in the summer

Yeah, the islands are nice but I might enjoy the Cape itself more unless you have time to spend leisurely on either island.