Boston

[Fas1975]

Has anyone been to Boston for a holiday? Am planning for August 2015. Went once on business back in 2001 and have fond memories of wandering around the streets of Cambridge and Harvard. Wife and 2 kids, (11 and 9), really into sightseeing and whatever activities are available. I hear good things about the Freedom Trail, and will attempt to get tickets to a Red Sox game if they're playing, but apart from that, would I be able to fill 7 days and would you recommend?

Have done NYC and DC and for holidays, we don't like going back to the same place twice if we can help it and they don't do beach holidays, hence a city break with good stuff to see and do will suit us.

Any advice?

[Fas1975]

Brilliant, thanks. I think we'll do 1-2 days in Boston itself, and then hire a car and go exploring further afield. I'm using airmiles, so the day flight isn't available to me, but we're going in the summer holidays so plenty of time for kids to recover, and unfortunately, due to my job, I'm used to it.

[Fas1975]

No disrespect to The Leaper and Puggit, but I've just booked the flights on the back of Shakotan recommendation.

Now have to figure out where to stay. Air bnb have such a widespread "Boston" base, any ideas which areas to stay / avoid? I guess city centre is obvious as then it gives us a 360 degree scope for exploring

[Fas1975]

The Leaper said:

I don't understand Fas's comment about not being able to use Airmiles/Avios as I've done so maybe 3-4 times over the years. Maybe BA are saying the A/A allocated seats are taken already, or have changed their policy.

R.

Just to clarify, I'm booking using my avios points, doing it this way, the return day flight is not available as an option, only the red-eye. Usually, if there are no reward seats available, the flight will still show, but it will say "not available", but there was no option at all. Give me a min, I'll take a screenshot

[Fas1975]

Hopefully this will work. Two screenshots, one using avios, the other without, same dates and travel party:

With Avios;






Without:



You can see, without avios, there's a few more options, but the kids are on summer hols and I'll take an extra couple of days, and get over jet lag fine. And the good news is, the red sox are in town that week