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Review of The Desmond Hotel and Conferen...

This place is really neat. It's themed like Revolu...

This place is really neat. It's themed like Revolutionary New England, complete with flags, and the entire hotel is meant to mimic as if you were walking the cobblestone streets of early Boston.

This place is worth visiting, purely for exploring the actual building. It's definitely interesting, and the courtyard is a pretty good hangout. This is a good place to host an event. I went here for a masonic conference.

There's two courtyards here, which are covered with a large skylight, and sets of rooms where the front/entrance of those rooms are made to look like row-houses in the city of Boston, and then courtyard itself mimics a town hall area. Which is incredibly neat. There are second floor rooms too, which have a balcony on them with glass double-doors, the balcony jutting out to overlook the courtyard, which is really, really interesting. I stayed in a handicap-accessible room, because my partner used to be in a motorized wheelchair until his passing, and while the room functions really well for anyone who is immobilized, the doorway is really tight.

Handicap accessible shower is alright, albeit really awkward. The curtain opens from the middle, and the shower itself is just totally flat, and flush with the floor, and if you're not really careful about it, you can get water all over the place. Also, there are two removable showerheads in the shower, but only one works.

Rooms come with exactly what you need. Includes a nice desk with a drawer, a lamp complete with some plugs on it, and the lamp itself looks really nice. Definitely drew my attention, for whatever reason. Chair is comfortable and adjusts.

The restaurants here are really good. The tavern was expensive, but the service was really good. They have (I think replicas?) of rifles and muskets from the era, which were really interesting to see. There are some rather questionable statues of Native Americans dotted throughout the building but uh, it definitely keeps true to the era from which it mimics.

The beds here are unfortunately, really really uncomfortable. The sheets are starchy and scratchy, as well. I've had more comfortable sleeping experiences on fold-out cots during my term of service in the US Army. Fred Flinstone would rate the beds a solid five.

It's a shame of just how absolutely memorably uncomfortable the beds in this place are, because it's the only reason I'm giving it a 3 - that and the fact that this hotel is just somewhat in the middle of nowhere. There's no real interesting places within walking distance here, besides a really good Japanese steakhouse.