Hotel Marlowe – A sort of design hotel

Hotel Marlowe is located on a prime spot on Charles River basin, next to the Science Museum. The hotel is marketed as a design boutique hotel, as all Kimpton hotels, but for an European the hotel is too bland to be a design or a boutique hotel.

The rooms are big, as usual in the States, and beds are excellent. The decoration mimics design, but is almost a borderline case with kitsch in some areas. Fortunately, it is pretty subdued. Service works as you would expect in USA, everybody is really friendly and pleasant, but things sometimes don’t happen without calling twice or thrice to the reception.

The hotel is adjoined with a big shopping mall that can be accessed indoors. There is a plethora of shops and restaurants, all mall quality (in good and bad). No grocery store, but soft drinks and snacks can be bought from several stores, and some cafés open early enough for breakfast.

www.hotelmarlowe.com, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA, USA, +1 617 868 8000