NYT Deems the Copley Square Hotel 'Perfectly Nice'
After some incredulity over how many Boston hotels have Copley in their names, the New York Times this weekend reviewed the revamped, historic Copley Square Hotel. “Until this year, C-Square was a historic but faded enterprise: not the kind of place to earn cool points with your teenager on a college visiting tour,” the Times writes.
But after $18 million in renovations, the hotel is once again ready for prime time — just as, ahem, some of us have been telling you all year.
Highlights: The bathroom’s wall featured “unusual reading material: the poem ‘Paul Revere’s Ride,’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in cursive.” “Super-speedy” room service that arrived in less than 10 minutes (though unfortunately, fairly “tasteless”). “If your kid is graduating from Boston University, if you want to shop the Back Bay or if you’re just exploring for a few days, it would be hard to find a more central and convenient spot,” writes the NYT.
Lowlights: The hotel’s “boutique queen” rooms are either New York- or Tokyo-size, at just 205 teensy square feet. And what’s with the weird motto: “intuitively yours”? And the hotel had run out of rollaway beds by “one July midafternoon,” when the Times-er checked in.
Bottom line: “As long as you avoid those dreaded roomettes, the Copley Square is perfectly nice,” concludes the Times. “After you leave, it may blur in your mind with other boutique-ish hotels. But we have to admit: we certainly didn’t stay anywhere like this on our college visits.” Rooms from around $230.
[Photo: Jodi Hilton for The New York Times]
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