This hotel is ugly, old, and tired. The lobby is located up a semicircular staircase clad in a very 1980s ugly carpet pattern that can barely be made out through the dirt. The lobby is dominated by a fish tank filled with inappropriately large fish. The front desk staff are emotionless and inattentive.
And ah, the rooms. So, this hotel consists of a building from, I'm guessing, the late 1970s or early 1980s, that has been haphazardly slapped onto some much older building. There are huge seems where you cross from one building to the next. The rooms in both buildings are small, cramped, and dark. The newer ones smell less - I suspect the new building served as the non-smoking section back in the day. Once inside my room, I found a collection of unmatched furniture (different woods, some different stone-topped items, mismatched lamps - all scratched and more or less dirty). This hotel still has those ridiculous old armoires with ancient tube TVs inside. The wallpaper is scuffed and peeling off the walls in multiple areas. Some rooms have nice Aeron chairs; mine had a medieval torture seat.
This hotel DOES NOT have a fitness center. For some odd reason there is a YMCA tucked into / under this hotel and there is a way for hotel guests to get in there - by exiting onto a roof covered with air conditioning equipment, walking across totally uncovered, and taking an elevator down to the YMCA. Genius architecture! The YMCA is not open 24/7 by a long shot. It also mainly exists to serve the local Chinatown residents, not business travelers who want a quick workout.
My room looked across Washington Street into some hospital rooms at Tufts Hospital. While I didn't mind this, there was lots of noisy ambulance and police car traffic.
Also, there appear to be some ladies of the night milling about on the block. The cheap kind.
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