I am coining that term--tm, blah, blah blah.  Anyway, this hugly Sheraton is a Mass Pike legend.  Your drive past Fenway, then the toll (i think) then under the big hugly Sheraton.  Suddenly, and somewhat magically, you begin to think it is 1982...

That thing is a beast.

what is hugly? that actually sounds all cute and stuff. like my dog Tank is soooo hugly. he's the best hugger and snuggler...

Hugly = Hotel Ugly.

It does sound too cute.  Argh.  How about f'n hugly?

Or fhugly?

The fugly Sheraton in Newton is directly over the Massachusetts Turnpike.  To its credit, however, it wasn't built as a Sheraton.  It opened in the late 60's as a Howard Johnson's.  

I've stayed at this hotel and you cannot miss it if you are on the Mass Pike. The hotel sits on piers suspended across interstate AND the NYC-Boston amtrak rail line. To make things even worse once you get off the highway, you find out that the hotel is in the middle of a traffic circle for local Newton traffic. Cars driving around the hotel and cars going under the hotel at the same time.

Some employees told me that to do plumbing repair in the kitchen they have had to shut the highway down in the past.

You get a choice of a north highway view or a south highway view at this place. My room was very small and even on the upper floors you can still hear some road noise if you don't have the tv or radio on in your room. Woosh! Woosh!

And then you haven't really had the most fun this place can dish out until you are sitting in the dinning room on the first floor of the building and the high speed Acela train goes roaring underneath you at top speed. You feel like you should pick your feet up off the floor just in case.