parking downtown in most places is about 30 bucks a day. Not sure what overnight costs.
the question on where to sleep (hotel) is based on: do you go back to the room throughout the day, or just to sleep? Are you going to be out past 1:00am before going back to the hotel? And what type of activities you want to do. See the sea/beach? History in Boston? Clubbing? Concerts? (rock, punk, theater, jazz, blues?) Shopping? in town will run in the $220-$320 per night range, out of town can be much less, depending on where, but the trains do shut down after midnight and later (depends on where you are going), and cabs to farther areas can get expensive really quick (30, 40, 50 bucks each way) If price were no object, I would recommend the omni parker right near beacon hill. If I were paying, I'd stay North Shore and commute in, or maybe Quincy or Braintree. (T subway system is cheap and simple to get you around, no need for a car.) Activities I have taken people on and had them love: duck boat tours "liberty walk" ghosts of boston tour shopping on newbury street. harvard football game. (BU football, BC soccer, BU soccer) red sox game, patriots football game, new england revolution soccer game museums (childrens museum, science museum, museum of fine art) campus wanderings (especially in September, the eye candy oggling is unrivaled) architecture tours. sadly, "Cheers". clubbing on Lansdowne Street (axis, Avalon) drinking (cask and flagon, boston beer works, lots of local pubs) music (orpheum, harper's ferry, middle east) used book shopping (brattle, commonwealth,trident,book annex, peter stern, antiquarian, bromer, ...tons). I especially love the dollar book carts in the alley alongside the brattle. whatever you do, wear good, comfy shoes. you will end up walking probably 10 miles over the course of 2 days (and not even notice) On 6/21/07, Deanna Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going out there in September for a training, and my husband is > thinking of joining me the weekend after. We have to decide by > tomorrow. So, give me the scoop. I'll be staying out here for the > training: > Microsoft Technology Center  Boston, MA > 890 Winter St., First Floor > Waltham, MA 02451 > > And, I think I'll need a car to be out there and get to the training > and such. So, should I book the car through the weekend and stay > outside the city? Is it easy to commute in to do stuff if it's cheaper > to stay out a ways? Or, should we ditch the car and spend the weekend > right in the city somewhere? Or, is it the kind of city where you can > have a car in the city and find a place to park without paying through > the nose. We'll probably priceline the hotel, so here are their > neighborhood options: > Boston Waterfront - Convention Center > Brighton - Brookline > Cambridge > Copley > Downtown Boston - Charlestown > Medford - Somerville > Revere - Logan Airport > South Boston > > So, of those options, which one would you pick? And, what would you do > with a weekend in Boston? > > Thanks! > -d > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 beta â Build next generation applications today. Free beta download on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237007 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
