Drinking and Swimming: The Colonnade

Where: 120 Hungtington Avenue [map], Boston, ma, United States, 02116

6/08/2006 at 9:15 AM
Tags: Hotel Bars, Hotel Pools, WiFi Hell

The Colonnade Hotel in Boston boasts the city's only rooftop pool.

RTP as it's called, is a go-to scene in town in the summer with prime cityscape views and of course, a bar.

For those of you simultaneously concerned about noise and fresh air when staying over, the joint just underwent a big renovation of its guestroom windows so that each room has floor to ceiling sound-proof windows that open.

On the flip side the hotel has a bit of a wireless access problem:

You get the picture, not anywhere near a 4-star hotel. Guestroom WiFi is contracted out to Guestlinx and is quite expensive - $39.95 for 3-days. It worked the first night, then the entire system went down; I spent a long time dealing with the outsourced automated system before getting to a human being in India or somewhere on a connection so bad he could not hear me and hung up. I had to start over. again, not 4-star service.

So don't plan on doing work by the pool.

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