This 4-star hotel is 0.4 mi (0.6 km) from Boston Harbor and 0.5 mi (0.8 km) from Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Possibly not even to another different Kimpton Hotel.With a stay at Kimpton Onyx Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Boston, steps from TD Garden and 6 minutes by foot from The Freedom Trail. If you're older or have underage children with you, I'd recommend looking elsewhere. If you're a single person or youngish couple looking for a boutique hotel towards the grittier (i.e. Sadly, the WiFi dropped repeatedly (about 2 dozen times) during just my 45 minutes to write this review.Ĭan I recommend the Onyx Hotel? Sure. Lastly, they do offer WiFi ($10 per visit) but free if you sign up for their "Kimpton InTouch" rewards program. "Excuse me?!?" Fortunately, one of yesterday's valet/bellhops grabbed me and we trooped off (in the rain) towards the massive Haymarket Station *public* parking garage a couple blocks away, home of the local Enterprise Rent-a-Car. He then suggested that I just tell him what I wanted from my car and he'd have a valet go look through my car for it, for me. Only to be told that it was in a "private parking garage" and that I could not go to my car. Then, when I found the next morning that we needed a couple more things from our car, I went asking about my car at the front desk. The room did have AC, surprisingly necessary despite low 60's outside, high winds and rain, but was way too loud to let run all night. Unfortunately, the sink won't hold water (the drain stop wasn't working) so I had to just run the hot water while I shaved (wasting more water than necessary). Only by running the water in the bathtub for 2-3 minutes at full hot could I actually get hot water from the sink. The sink also had a major discolored "spider" crack and had no hot water (literally, even after running full hot for 5+ minutes). ![]() For example, some fixtures were slightly rusty (due to no exhaust fan) and parts of the poorly "redone" shower grout had come off exposing the discolored original "white" grout underneath. Fairly spacious but which had received a rather obvious superficial make-over. Plus the desk truly appears to have had it's finish touched up with a permanent marker. For example, to me, $4 for a glass of milk or $9 for a basket of fries is just too much. I guess they expect you to order from their rather overpriced (in my opinion) room service menu. Then, thanks to the locked minibar/refrigerator, there is no usable refrigerator. Just last week we stayed downtown in another major east coast city (also a 4-star hotel and for the same price), had a room that was literally twice (possibly 3x) the size and had significant windows overlooking the city's skyline. And with almost no place to set most of our luggage, besides the floor. Looking at a lower rooftop with AC units. We then finally made it to our 2 double-beds room. Part of the reason for the lack of lobby space is because of the 6-8 table cafe/bistro/restaurant that consumes of the bottom floor. This made getting all of us and our luggage to the front desk and then to our room a definite challenge. Since we arrived during their "evening wine reception", the lobby was packed with hotel guests consuming their free glass of wine. ![]() When our family of 4 (2 adults & 2 children - 6 & 11) arrived, we were greeted by 2 great valets/bellhops that help us get our luggage out of our car and into the lobby, while our car was whisked away to an unknown location. It's also an easy walk to Boston's Freedom Trail (Old North Church, Paul Revere's house, Bunker Hill, etc) and Faneuil Hall (great food and over 100 of the finest shops). The Onyx Hotel is located between Boston's West End and North End, close to Boston's TD Garden (home of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins) plus lots of sports bars and pubs.
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