A modern and sophisticated 190-room boutique hotel in a brick corner building in downtown Boston, the Nine Zero is across the street from the Granary Burial Ground. Just past the garden is Newbury Street, Boston’s tony shopping and dining street, with high-end designer stores, distinctive and surprisingly reasonable boutiques, some excellent resale stores and, to the delight of a tea gal, several tea cafes. A bellman led us into the entrance, past bowls filled with dog biscuits and water (the “In the Doghouse” package comes with welcome treats, a pet bed in your room and referrals for pet sitting, grooming, walking and massage). The king bed was deliciously comfortable and high style, with red and black leather squares hanging down over the mustard-yellow leather headboard and a dramatically striped Egyptian cotton duvet cover over the down comforter. If the goose down pillows were unacceptable, a hotel brochure offered “selections from the pillow menu,” which included hypoallergenic foam, antibacterial fiber, buckwheat, memory foam and “magnetic. read more

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