travel42 Hotel Review: XV Beacon

XV Beacon travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

One block east of the State House and west of Tremont Street, on top of tony Beacon Hill (Boston's best neighborhood—bar none), this intimate and fashionable boutique-hotel owns the crown in the boutique category and shares Boston's best service award with either of the Four Seasons hotels, Ritz-Carlton Boston Common and Mandarin Oriental.

Always a trendsetter, this is the kind of titillating town house you run across in London's Mayfair neighborhood, but...