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Want to stay in the
\n heart of historic Boston, in a $300 a night room in a brand new four-star
\n hotel for just $24 bucks a night? Forget about Priceline and Hotels.com.
\n No way will you find a deal like this on Roomsaver or Expedia. The only
\n place to go is to that wonderland of creative budgeting – Boston University.<\/p>\n
For years the Dowbrigade has had to put up with poor students complaining The hotel web site desctibes it thusly: <\/p>\n Commonwealth Avenue. One of the world’s most celebrated grand boulevards, Overflow undergraduates paying the standard $5930 dormitory fees (for ”At first it sounded too good to be true,” says August, sitting in In fact, as August soon discovered, he was one of 93 BU students — all from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to stay in the heart of historic Boston, in a $300 a night room in a brand new four-star hotel for just $24 bucks a night? Forget about Priceline and Hotels.com. No way will you find a deal like … Continue reading
\n that the water in the swimming pool at the Cambridge Hyatt was too cold,
\n or that the Playboy channel was not amoung the 186 choices at the Holiday
\n Inn in toney Brookline. This year the spendthrift administration ($3
\n million to get Dan Goldin to go away)<\/a> has
\n outdone itself yet again, renting out an entire floor of the brand new
\n Commonwelath Hotel <\/a>overlooking iconic Fenway Park in Kenmore Square for
\n overflow housing. <\/p>\n\n
\n with a life of elegance, splendor and tradition. This is the experience
\n that awaits you at Hotel Commonwealth – a newly created independent hotel
\n that combines the style, service and comfort of a bygone era, with the
\n amenities and features of the new millennium. The historic mansions,
\n the stylish shops of Boston’s Back Bay, the world famous universities
\n and medical institutions – they are the essence of Life on Comm Ave.
\n And Hotel Commonwealth is ideally located at the center of it all. Discover
\n Life on Comm Ave. Welcome to Hotel Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n 250 nights works out to $23.80 a night) are placed indefinitely in $300
\n per night rooms. The resident advisor gets a suite. In theory eventually
\n dormitory attrition via drop-outs, falling-outs, and off-campus moves will
\n free up enough rooms to move them back onto campus. Meanwhile, careul with
\n that mini-bar, Princess.<\/p>\n\n
\n his second-floor room overlooking Fenway Park. ”There had to be some
\n sort of drawback. I was half expecting to find I’d looked up the wrong
\n hotel.”<\/p>\n
\n but six of them freshmen — who’d been assigned to two floors of the
\n posh hotel, which opened last year a few blocks from the BU campus. Rooms
\n usually go for $200 to $300 a night, with commensurate amenities. The
\n location could hardly be more ideal, since the Kenmore MBTA stop practically
\n empties into the hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n