Bryn Mawr Eagle {l Wrote}:DavidGordonsFoot {l Wrote}:Bryn Mawr Eagle {l Wrote}:Travelling up for the USC game with my wife. I have not stayed in a hotel in or near Boston in years. While I'd love to stay at one of the down town or Back Bay hotels, we need quick access to BC and we need to hit the road early on Sunday back to Philly, so I'm inclined to stay somplace in the western suburbs closer to BC. Has anyone stayed at the Sheraton in Needham recently? Or does anyone have suggestions (other than the places mentioned in this thread) for a nice place near BC in the $200-$275 a night range? (Not the Newton Marriott or Crowne Plaza).
I haven't stayed there but I will say the Needham Sheraton works well because the Needham Satellite lot is about a quarter mile from the hotel, so your game day transportation would be covered if you stay there.
We're staying at the Sheraton. Trying to fugure out whether to use the Needham Satellite bus, or drive from the hotel and park at the Lower Brighton lot. Some questions:
Do the busses really run every 10 min. from the Needham Satellite lot?
How long is the bus ride from the Needham lot to BC?
If you stay to the end of the game, are the lines long for the return shuttles?
1) The buses run as quickly as they fill up. For a big game, like USC, it will work out to every 10 minutes. But I was on the first bus to the Pitt game and they held us for 20 minutes waiting for it to fill.
2) I've probably ridden the shuttle 30 times. The average ride is 25 minutes. The closer it gets to kickoff, the longer it can take because the traffic starts to build up on Chestnut Hill Ave. I've had it take 40 minutes a couple times.
3) Yes, but it moves surprisingly quick. The shuttle runs for 2 hours after the game, so you can wait for the crowd to disperse if you don't want to stand in line.